On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 17:03:47 +0100
Robin wrote:
On 12/07/2018 16:21, wrote:
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.


Not necessarily. A combined heat and power system could work out both
more efficient and less polluting than 50-odd diesel engines running
most of the time at far from peak efficiency.

True, but don't forget you have battery charging losses.