(09 Jan 2023, 11:56 pm)Unber43 wrote There needs to be some sort of infrastructure in place such as fast chargings at stops e.g 

Newcastle/Gateshead/Metrocentre/Durham/Chester-Le-Street/Heworth/Washington Galleries/Sunderland/South Sheilds/Stanley/Consett however It seems GNE are going for the ability to plug in and charge but thats fine and great when its at the depot but routes such as X21/10's. As Im pretty sure you have the ability to charge 0-80% in like 7/8 mins in Germany and other european countries and layovers are regularly 5-10 mins charging even for 3 mins at Durham or smth would massively help but Im pretty sure you can only do that with overhead chargers and it doesn't seem like GNE is heading that way. 

Aswell you need to deal with them potentially being damaged however in the major bus stations wont/shouldn't be an issue however its locations such as possibly  Greenside/Brandon/Langley Park/Low Moorlsey where routes end after quite a long distance and then when they break it costs money.

Where would they get the power from though? It's not as simple as just whacking a charger in at a stop.

If they charge over the CCS connector, and pull the maximum amount of power (which you would want to for the fastest speeds), then it would be the equivalent of having 15 houses maxing out their connections (CCS maximum charge rate is 350kW, a typical house with a 100A connection can pull around 24kW before blowing the fuse).

As for the fast charging you suggest, I'm guessing to achieve a 0-80% charge time of 8 minutes they have very small batteries and they just charge them more often.

A 0-80% charge in 8 minutes with either the Yutong or eCitaro would require a charge rate of around 3.6MW, to put that into perspective, Kielder Water can generate around 6MW.