I road on a Boris BUs a while back and was underwhelmed by its supposed
Hybrid-ness. I took the 125 bus yesterday which is also a hybrid but not
a routemaster and it suffered exactly the same issues - the engine went off
at each stop and about 3-4 secs after moving away from the stop on electric
power the engine came back on again and stayed on until the next stop even
in slow moving traffic. Rince and repeat. Which IMO somewhat defeats the whole
point of having a hybrid. I think "electric assisted" would be rather closer
to the truth. In fairness it was somewhat faster up the hills than a diesel
bus but that seemed to be its only advantage.

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Spud