(22 Oct 2024, 6:59 pm)ReDemPTiion wrote From what I’ve been told mate, it’s due to the heat the electric chargers will produce and apparently the big open doors either end of the shed aren’t enough. But they’ve had the roof off before and had complaints from the local residents about the noise from the buses being checked over on a morning so the same issue would just arise again. So from what I’ve been told as a driver at Slatyford our order has been cancelled and they’ll head to Stockton instead and Slatyford will receive the 69 plate 262’s from Stockton. This isn’t officially confirmed but I have been told this from a union rep.
Its a bit like Sunderland having to have their shed removed but they’re not in a residential area, same with Walkergate having their buses outdoors as well. It’s just an issue with Slatyford depot being in the middle of a residential area.
So you go electric to save the planet through lower CO2 from the buses but you pump out heat from the chargers - shame the heat cannot be reused for something else like keep the roof on and fill it with green houses for salad items, cucumbers, tomtaoes etc and save the road miles from Spain and Morocco. Or keep the roof on and heat up your hot water.
On the noise issue, I worked in a data centre in a residential area - the air con got upgraded and the new units on the roof were in a different location causing noise to travel more and complaints came in from neighbours 300m away (due to land toplogy) of fan noise in the middle of the night and that was at 38db noise level. The previous air con fans hid behidnd a 1m parapet wall which redirected the noise upwards. The new noise got solved by adding variable length 'trumpets' to the fan outlets so each fan gave off a different noise which overall was less.