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Old February 22nd 17, 10:30 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Arn't all new buses in London supposed to be hybrids?



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On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:05:28 -0800 (PST)
Paul Corfield wrote:
the bus market - there are very few viable hybrid single deck buses and
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en fewer all electric or hydrogen buses. China seems to have a monopoly
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producing electric single deckers (see those on the 507/521) and I don't
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European manufacturers caught napping. They only have themselves to blame.
Though I suppose given the prevalence of trolleybuses in Europe


prevalence ?

I can thing of a few places

but only a very few

certainly nowhere near enough to make it a dominant factor for suppliers