Had a ride on the Yutong U11DD demonstrator this evening. Seems in another league in terms of build quality compared to anything ADL or Wright have produced for a number of years. It was a much more pleasant ride than the StreetDeck I caught back to town, or the E400 MMC I caught home.

Obviously the main question about it will be whether it has enough range to handle the 21. It looks to have been allocated to the same board every day it has been out which only goes to Brandon the once, and is only in passenger service for just over 12 hours, which seems pretty easy for a 21 board. While I wonder how it would cope with a longer board such as one of the 4am starts, I'd assume GNE are just be being careful with it and allocating it to a board which it should manage comfortably to avoid any embarrassment, and using remaining range/battery percentage to work out what it might be capable of.