Electric Buses

[Celestial Toymaker]

E263 into service last night

E241 now at YW for inspection and service

Any idea when the next batch E334 / E335 etc are due to start arriving, only i read somewhere there are 170 Yutongs on order

[Stu]

Any idea when the next batch E334 / E335 etc are due to start arriving, only i read somewhere there are 170 Yutongs on order

I think you read wrong - there are 130 vehicles still outstanding.

And they're not Yutongs either.

[Ingleboro261F]

I think you read wrong - there are 130 vehicles still outstanding.

And they're not Yutongs either.

I thought it was rumoured to be electroliners

[karl724223]

I thought it was rumoured to be electroliners

Only on the armchair veg web jungle drums 

[Tony]

The frames of the first ones of this order should be put down this month

[cardew]

More top quality "reporting" from Birmingham Live. New electric buses "to take to the streets" when around 160 of them are already out there. 

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/fleet-new-electric-buses-take-31444235.amp

[Gareth]

More top quality "reporting" from Birmingham Live. New electric buses "to take to the streets" when around 160 of them are already out there.

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/fleet-new-electric-buses-take-31444235.amp

As with all online news sites, a lot of the time the reports are old. They may have a little update on them, so it looks like a new story because of the publication date. Easier to ignore them.

[Stu]

More top quality "reporting" from Birmingham Live. New electric buses "to take to the streets" when around 160 of them are already out there.

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/fleet-new-electric-buses-take-31444235.amp

As with all online news sites, a lot of the time the reports are old. They may have a little update on them, so it looks like a new story because of the publication date. Easier to ignore them.

This is an opportunity to understand how local journalists work now. The article is basically the following press release from NX Bus, which has been slightly 'enhanced' by a journalist who doesn't do much research:
https://nxbus.co.uk/west-midlands/news/national-express-west-midlands-marks-major-milestone-with-329-zero-emission-electric-buses-on-the-road

[karl724223]

This is an opportunity to understand how local journalists work now. The article is basically the following press release from NX Bus, which has been slightly 'enhanced' by a journalist who doesn't do much research:
https://nxbus.co.uk/west-midlands/news/national-express-west-midlands-marks-major-milestone-with-329-zero-emission-electric-buses-on-the-road

Says a lot for centroland pr teams 
Photo shows three diesel buses at Perry Barr 
And Joe 90s photo outside wolves station when they don't even have leccy buses 
Very poor 

[don]

Says a lot for centroland pr teams
Photo shows three diesel buses at Perry Barr
And Joe 90s photo outside wolves station when they don't even have leccy buses
Very poor

When I click on the link it shows a picture with E263 and E244, presumably at YW. The article seems to be quite up to date. No Troy Tempest, Joe 90 or Captain Scarlett photos. Are you clicking the right link or does a different internet apply in the deepest recesses of the Black Country 😀🫢

[karl724223]

When I click on the link it shows a picture with E263 and E244, presumably at YW. The article seems to be quite up to date. No Troy Tempest, Joe 90 or Captain Scarlett photos. Are you clicking the right link or does a different internet apply in the deepest recesses of the Black Country 😀🫢

Try the link with Joe 90 standing outside Wolverhampton station  showing the diesel buses in photo at Perry Barr 

[don]

I still don't get those photos - there's one of an electric coming past Selfridges. Maybe they've altered it? That Birmingham Live website is very difficult to read any article, such is the level of both commercial advertising and links to other articles interspersed with almost every sentence.  

[Tony]

I still don't get those photos - there's one of an electric coming past Selfridges. Maybe they've altered it? That Birmingham Live website is very difficult to read any article, such is the level of both commercial advertising and links to other articles interspersed with almost every sentence. 

Anything published by any Reach Media site is usually one of 4 things
1) Press release adapted to be factually incorrect
2) Telling you you 'could be fined'
3) Exaggerated weather event (The 3 inches of snow Birmingham was having this week didn't seem to arrive)
4) so many adverts it's unreadable

[cardew]

I suspect this is the article actually being referred to!!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y49p83qzno

[karl724223]

I suspect this is the article actually being referred to!!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y49p83qzno

Yes