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Where I live they recently bought a bunch of electric and hybrid public buses.
Hope they simply bought trolley buses and didn't waste money on battery buses
It's such a waste to put batteries in inner city buses
Actually electric buses make a lot more sense, as the utilisation and environmental impact would be much greater compared to normal EV cars.
Plus you are conveniently omitted mentioning the energy losses of the cables, the maintenance cost, the installation cost, etc.
Not to mention how unbelievably ugly stringing that shit all over the service area is. Electric buses make a ton of sense.