• Baku@aussie.zoneOPM
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    1 year ago

    Eh, I’m not sure I think hydrogen is the best option honestly. It seems like a lot of effort to go to, and certainly more than chicken some solar panels and a few batteries at a depot/on buses

    • Andrew Bartlett@mastodon.nzoss.nz
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      1 year ago

      @Baku @Railison Battery electric busses are a well established technology, used widely, normally hard to get grants for.

      Despite this they got a 50 bus grants for the battery technology, plus 2 for hydrogen. If you want to get free money for these things it needs to be novel, and H2 is.

      Regardless, anything is better than diesel. I ride my bike on a now almost all electric bus route. I hold my breath much less often now. The reduced particulates is enough to show in the graphs for Wellington