If you fully charge a battery, freeze it, then warm it back up, it will still be close to fully charged.
a spokesperson called the allegations “an extreme exaggeration… We cancelled, on average, between 50 and 100 departures, out of more than 4,000 daily departures, for a few days.”
The company did however admit they had a few “challenges with the range of the buses being shorter in cold weather."
"We solved this by changing the charging shifts. And also by fixing the charging infrastructure."
Ruter [the bus operating company] claims the issues have since been fixed and the fleet of electric buses continues to run as usual.
https://www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/kaller-inn-byrad-i-oslo-pa-grun....
Reached 1000 cancelations at the worst in a single day it seems.
They managed to resume traffic by using emergency diesel replacement buses.
Perhaps this part of a PR campaign to signal how government takes this sort of thing very seriously?
Battery fires are actually very hard to tackle so my guess is that these busses were built to avoid catching on fire as much as possible so when one does happen, they need to investigate to make sure there isn't a major design flaw.
I don't live in UK, and don't generally read the local news section of BBC, so this was displayed on the side when I was reading a story about the volcanic activity in Iceland.
I clicked on the story, because it was about electric busses, a subject I'm interested in, since we don't have any where I live.
After clicking on the story, I was a bit disappointed with the lack of detail.
I decided to post here, because I figured if it got any traction, someone on here would post a bit more detail.
The top comment on here currently is exactly what I was hoping to see, and I'm glad I posted the story.
Over half of London's buses are electric (11%) or hybrid (44%) so it's not surprising that fires are now affecting these.
I do not know what the motive is (some way of making money no doubt) but it is clear to me that these are mostly just trying to get comments and reactions.
I strongly suspect a lot of what I see on FB is not even human written - lots of jokes that do not quite make sense, minor variations on things I have seen before that also do not quire make sense.
> "The vehicle utilises a 32kWh capacity energy storage system, comprising third generation lithium nickel manganese cobalt battery technology"
I think it might be this hybrid but I could not find a confirmation [0].
[0] https://www.alexander-dennis.com/alexander-dennis-enviro400e...
> a double-decker caught fire on Thursday [...] The fire started during the morning rush hour in Wimbledon [...] the operator, London General - a subsidiary of Go-Ahead London - and the bus manufacturer, Switch
And also one a day later, in east london, just north of the thames:
> On Friday, a hybrid double-decker bus was destroyed in a fire [...] in North Woolwich. [...] the operator, Go-Ahead, and the manufacturer, Alexander Dennis [...] we have no reason to suspect that this fire on a hybrid bus was linked to an earlier incident on an electric bus
242 over the past couple of years (although it seems these are mostly diesel or hybrid rather than battery), there’s reasonable detail in the summaries further down the page by cause: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/investigation-int...
I couldn’t find a way to estimate fires per miles driven.
It also doesn’t include all bus fires, only those reported to the DVSA. London Fire Brigade reports a bunch more in their publication.
"Electric Vehicle Fire" by "South Metro Fire Rescue Centennial, Colorado"
All these low carbon plans but instead of just investing in infrastructure, they invest in all these fancy new technologies that really aren't an advantage.
