Basil Jet wrote:
That would make the tourist areas look like crap. It's better and
cheaper to have charging pads in the road at termini and other lengthy
stops. This was, and presumably still is, used on bus route 69 with
charging pads at Canning Town and Walthamstow.

https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/2017/3271

They seem to manage tram wires in Princes Street. And indeed in many
Continental historic centres. You could of course wire less touristy parts
- most cities have main thoroughfares where buses are concentrated.

The trouble with inductive charging is you can get much less power transfer
than a wired connection, and it's less efficient.

I wonder how much the no. 69 runs on electric, and how much it's a pure
diesel bus?
goes digging
57% in EV mode - not bad:
https://www.lowcvp.org.uk/assets/pre...ald,%20TfL.pdf
Although 16kW isn't that great for charge power.

Theo