Electric Buses

[Axsn24]

Why can't you just be patient and just wait ?

I am, just curious when they'll come as it's quite a significant delay. Since some garages have VERY old buses

[Steve3229vp]

I am, just curious when they'll come as it's quite a significant delay. Since some garages have VERY old buses

The delay is out of NX's control, I've been interested in buses for nearly fifty years, in most of that time period there were delays with new bus deliveries, we had it with the fleetlines in the 1970's, the Mk 2A Metrobuses in the late 1980's and there were other occasions as well. It is not an unusual occurrence.

[Axsn24]

The delay is out of NX's control, I've been interested in buses for nearly fifty years, in most of that time period there were delays with new bus deliveries, we had it with the fleetlines in the 1970's, the Mk 2A Metrobuses in the late 1980's and there were other occasions as well. It is not an unusual occurrence.

Ah I see. It's just that I haven't really seen much conformation the 130 buses are electroliners, so was curious what replaces the wolverhampton garage buses. Thanks tho

[Mike K]

At the moment the charging infrastructure in garages has been failing to keep up with deliveries and would unlikely be ready for the initial timescales quoted for the orders.

[cardew]

"National Express West Midlands invests record £150 million in 300 UK-made electric zero emission buses
We are investing £150 million in 300 UK-made electric zero emission buses, for delivery by the end of December 2024. The buses will be deployed across the West Midlands"
This was a order from around Jan 2023. I heard 170 were E400EV's and 130 were Electroliners. With not even 1 Electroliner delivered, the target is surely missed right?

There isn't a pinch of salt large enough to accompany most transport press releases especially when infrastructure is involved.

Back in January 2023, WMCA said that 124 zero-emission ZEBRA funded vehicles (including 24 for Sprint) would also be in service by the end of 2024.

The latest Sprint timeframe as mentioned in the Agenda Pack for this month's WMCA Transport Meeting is... a "handover phase" lasting pretty much the whole of 2026.

And as for the other hundred, who knows?

[cardew]

Why would they move out E400MMCs when there are Tridents and OmniLinks that need getting rid of?

AG still need to oust four E3 Geminis and assuming 6995 and 6997 are also intended to go there from BC, maybe just a handful of E400MMC's could move out from YW to accommodate this. As ever, just a guess.

[Tony]

Three electrics entered normal service for the first time today
E258 & E269 at YW along with E237 doing the X21 duplicate at BC.
E242 & E277 should both see use at BC in the next couple of days.

All 116 at PB have now seen use except E301 which is having problems getting the radio to work