(Yesterday, 11:45 am)Kuyoyo wrote Because Stockton, like Sunderland and many other Stagecoach operations with electric vehicles, have running boards designed around the battery life. Apart from a few exceptions, the majority of Stockton's late evening runs are on boards which drop back to the depot around 5pm (some exceptions do apply - one board on a Saturday goes back to the depot at quarter past 1, goes on charge then goes back out about quarter past 6 to do East Cleveland lates). Heck, go have a look at Chesterfield's blocking on Bus Times - and see how many times early afternoon X17 boards swap onto the slower Sheffield-Chesterfield routes (43 44 or 50) while buses on those boards (either 43 or 44) go onto X17s (last summer, there was a period mid-afternoon in Sheffield where an X17 arrived in from Chesterfield and worked onto a 50, with the arrival off the 50A going onto the now-withdrawn 42 to Lowedges and the 43 which arrived in from Chesterfield heading back that way as an X17).

Yeah absolutely no arguments, I just meant on the sense that doing a full days work is pretty much impossible and when you've route branded them, the opportunities for interworking starts to become a problem. Aberdeen does what Chesterfield does aswell, with the 727 to Stonehaven. It's a clever little way of making it work, to be fair to them and credit where it's due. Obviously not an option for everyone though as not everyone has local work and interurban work together.

I'm not sure what the answer is for the Angel though, currently, and it doesn't help the depot is miles away either. If only there was a depot which was at the end of the route where they could quickly pop in for a charge, or swap out at periods during the day...

(Yesterday, 12:43 pm)F114TML wrote Tbf though, that's more to do with the chargers rather than the buses themselves. At Sunderland, whoever put them in mucked up (hence the thermal incidents) and we're waiting for someone to come and completely redo them. It also depends on the running board - I had an EV all night on Saturday for example. Some could go back out on evening boards but I think they're just playing safe.

Believe they're being trickle charged at Slatyford as the chargers are non-existent at the minute? Hopefully a Slatyford drivercan correct me.

Aye that's fair like.

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Btw speaking of electric buses, does anyone know what range they actually get, in real life, not the manufacturer range? Looking at boards from multiple operators, it seems to be round the 200 mile mark at the top end before things become a problem?