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No, three different makes and models, mixed BEV and Hybrid. The latest fire at Putney was in a Go Ahead Optare-Switch model. Go Ahead have hundreds of them and their last fire in one of those was in May 2022, both while charging. So two fires in ten months. .

It's not necessary to change it. The whole of Europe have simply ignored this bit of legal minutiae and no action has been or ever will be taken against. The law is the first to admit that the law is an ass at times. Some proofs of there being no need for action: Despite there being a path...

Exactly. The first electric bus entered service in Central London in 1907 with the London Electrobus Company. The electrobus needed 1.5 tonnes of lead-acid batteries to carry its 34 passengers. It could travel 60km (40 miles) on one charge. So at lunchtime the buses went to a garage in...

More exaggeration, they have not been burning at anything remotely like this January rate. There's no point in my replying to this anti EV silliness, the three classes of e-buses are here, they are staying and will be the entire fleet eventually. With new designs still being introduced there...

They aren't normally switched from inside the house but can be locked installations. He may have foolishly had an open one installed where others could get access to it and perhaps think it was a public one. There are 3,568 free public chargers in the uk so the woman could have made a genuine...

It was probably installed by Photoshop. ;) .

It's good that you can detect a difference, but there's a very long way to go to reach acceptability. Ella Kissi-Debrah died, aged nine, after an acute asthma attack in south London on 15 February 2013. She had had more than 25 emergency hospital admissions in the previous three years. In...

Yes, technically they need SVA in the rest of the EU as well, as I explained at length in my pedelecs legal thread , repeated below, but it's widely ignored law: Kit Motors Be aware that hardly any of the above applies to kits or any home construction, the regulations only being for...

I missed this earlier, it's simply conspiracy theory nonsense: The country making the EV switch most rapidly is China, not in the Western world. They have not been told by anyone to do it, they are doing it entirely out of need in the face of clear physical evidence, very visible to all of...

Exaggeration, we have thousands of them, 56% of our entire bus fleet. There are 3,835 hybrid buses, 950 battery electric buses, and 20 hydrogen fuel cell buses operating in London, as of March 2023, out of a total bus fleet of 8,643. In many cases other countries are not suffering the same...

I don't understand what you are getting at? TfL are not an operational bus company. The bus companies buy or lease the buses as I explained, some of the new routemasters leased from TfL's ownership among them, but they have not been causing most of the fires, as I also posted. .

Effectively that is what they do, since the range of possible answers to meet the legal demand to drastically and rapidly reduce polution are so limited. .

BJ as mayor both instigated the design of the new Routemaster and ordered them, but they are not the majority of traction battery buses implicated in fires. Many have been fully electric Optare Metrodeckers, which are body built here on Chinese BYD fully drivable chassis. Others have been...

Of course, the law is very clear, but that isn't due to Sadiq Khan as I explained. The legal requirements need to be met, nine years now after the Supreme Court ruling, and of course having a labour mayor to carry the can suits a Tory government which did so little about this urgent issue when...

Given how broke Britain is now, it's perhaps a new way to fund police forces? ;)

The bus companies tendering for TfL routes buy or lease the buses. The one recent time when TfL was involved in that was to cope with Boris Johnsons disastrous decision to have a new routemaster hybrid design, in opposition to all knowledgable advice. Johnson as mayor had signed up to 1000 of...

Fortunately in Great Britain at least that isn't common practice, so as long as only a 250 watt rated motor is used and the bike is limited to 15.5mph assist speed they get nodded through. I said Great Britain and not UK for a good reason, since the police in Northern Ireland have a previous...

You are being very stubborn, despite having absolutely no knowledge of this law. It doesn't matter how engine power is tested since this is nothing to do with actual power. This EU and UK wide law is only for the maximum continuous rated power. The EN15194 test for that is is only to ensure...

Your understanding is wrong. All that matters is what the motor was sold to you as. If that was illegal, you cannot change it in law by yourself, regardless of what you alter it to. The only way you can change it in law theoretically is by taking it to a government approved testing station...

It's never been the best way, leaving the running as much to the incompetent as to the competent. The simplest way to improve it is the have voting access according to a minimum measure of competence, via a form of brief combined knowledge/intelligence test. Introduced, then refined over time. .