Arriva Low Emission Vehicles

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RE: Arriva Low Emission Vehicles

(16/10/2015 14:14)Myllenium2453 Wrote:  That E1 was the worst pile of junk merseyside has ever had. The drivers hated the glorified milk floats they had to drive and more often than not a standard diesel powered minibus had to be put on in place of the elecy things because the batteries were absolutely goosed and couldn't hold a decent charge sufficient for an entire duty.

Any bus that is developed for all elecy operation will need to be sufficiently powered enough to be able to recharge the batteries while the vehicle is moving and be able to last a decent amount of timr on duty before having to go to the depot because if they cannot last in service the entire venture will be a huge waste of timr AND taxpayers money because nobody is going to pay for a service if the vehicles are not up to doing the duty as required.

Don't forget the E1 was a technology trial, and was introduced to trial technology and learn lessons from it, so the E1 was a success in that respect. All that you mentioned is covered in the above report. The reliability did drop considerably after a few years because merseytravel stopped funding the onsite technician from tecnobus at rock ferry. As a result he went back to Italy and rock ferry fitters and electricians left to maintain these very complex buses which nobody received any training on. Not a wise idea!