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Old July 12th 18, 03:21 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Electric buses at waterloo

On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 08:10:30 -0700 (PDT)
John Leach wrote:
On Thursday, July 12, 2018 at 3:04:30 PM UTC+1, wrote:
There was an article in the Evening Standard last night about the bus garage
near waterloo that has europes largest fleet of battery electric buses.
Apparently they had to install their own "generator". ....


I read that article too, according to this press release (link below) from
2016 the charging power comes from the grid. Not a local generator.

https://www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk/in...s-releases/Ele
ctric-buses-are-breath-of-fresh-air-for-London.html#art-top


I suspected it would be something like that. Installing a generator would seem
to defeat the point of having electric buses.