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Help Name Leicester's New Electric Buses

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Alf Bentley

Alf Bentley

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1 hour ago, fuchsntf said:

Wait until Cup-final...if we win...

 

Choice of names would be interesting..

 

Good point........particularly as there are 11 buses!

 

Kasper, Ricardo, Timothy, Wesley, Caglar, Jonny, Wilfred, Youri, James, Kelechi & Jamie (or whoever).

 

Perhaps they could add a few replacement buses named after subs and an articulated bus named the Brendan Bendy Bus? :D

Parafox

Parafox

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6 hours ago, Paninistickers said:

Presumably at least one will be named after Keith Vaz's mum

If Dyson was involved in the development... Keith Vax...:unsure:

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String fellow

String fellow

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Whilst it's tempting to think that these 'green' buses are environmentally friendly, we perhaps forget the human and environmental costs of obtaining the chemicals needed to make the batteries. Apart from that, the batteries have a limited lifespan, so what happens to them when they've ceased to be of any use? And what are alternatives which might be 'greener'? Well, trolleybuses or trams which pick up power from overhead, but I also love the idea of flywheel energy storage, which has been used in the past to power gyrobuses.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/03/the-dirty-secret-of-electric-vehicles/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage 

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Blarmy

Blarmy

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On 22/04/2021 at 19:58, String fellow said:

Whilst it's tempting to think that these 'green' buses are environmentally friendly, we perhaps forget the human and environmental costs of obtaining the chemicals needed to make the batteries. Apart from that, the batteries have a limited lifespan, so what happens to them when they've ceased to be of any use? And what are alternatives which might be 'greener'? Well, trolleybuses or trams which pick up power from overhead, but I also love the idea of flywheel energy storage, which has been used in the past to power gyrobuses.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/03/the-dirty-secret-of-electric-vehicles/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage 

Not particularly catchy.

tom27111

tom27111

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I don't bother with these things anymore, ever since Lancashire County Council shunned my name idea for one of there new salt spreaders.

 

Adolf Gritler 'wasn't appropriate", apparently. 

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foxile5

foxile5

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Sadly the buses will be named by some lame civil servant who thinks its brilliant to have them named after the moons of Jupiter or something. 

 

I've suggested 'Richard Teeth' and if they don't go with that then they can ****ed for all I care. 

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