(05 Dec 2023, 7:50 am)RobinHood wrote Underpinning the whole thing is the business case from the operator, as they still need to find the equivalent diesel cost to replace the vehicles. Zebra only covers the gap between diesel and EV.

So, in exactly the same way any normal business case would progress, the services need to be profitable enough to justify the investment. I suspect Hartlepool is not that.

This is one question I would actually like to get an answer to with how packed the 1 6 and 7 can all get I find it unlikely that they are not making any profits off them considering in most cases they no isn’t any other services for parts of all 3 routes.   I don’t think can anyone can argue though that stagecoach have ran Hartlepool into the ground with the amount of services cut over the years and buses quite literally falling apart.