[melling]

Most of those stories are from 2016. Technology improves over time.

In 2011 there was a high-speed train crash in China and every questioned HSR in China.

Today China had 19,000 miles of track and carries 2 billion passengers a year.

It’s not hard to believe that initial electric buses had a few problems.

[clouddrover]

> Most of those stories are from 2016.

Here are a couple from 2018 and 2019:

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-electric-buses-201...

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/01/electric-bus-...

> Technology improves over time.

This is bus technology, not rocket surgery. The BYD buses in Albuquerque had door malfunctions, cracked and missing welds, brake issues, exposed high voltage cables, etc.:

https://www.cabq.gov/mayor/news/mayor-tim-keller-byd-will-be...

This doesn't have anything to do with the technology. It's just bad bus manufacturing.

[Reason077]

”The BYD buses in Albuquerque had door malfunctions, cracked and missing welds, brake issues, exposed high voltage cables, etc”

Much of London’s electric bus fleet uses the BYD battery & drivetrain in combination with an ADL (Alexander Dennis) bus body. These units seem to be reliable and well-regraded.

[clouddrover]

Again, show me some links. Here are the bus inspection reports from Albuquerque. They're not great:

https://www.cabq.gov/mayor/build-your-dreams-mechanic-inspec...

[melling]

China has almost 400,000 electric busses.

https://electrek.co/2019/03/20/chinese-electric-buses-oil/

How are those working?

[clouddrover]

You tell me. Just saying there are 400,000 doesn't speak to their quality or reliability.

[londons_explore]

If you have 400,000, you might care less about reliability.

If there is always another spare, a few breakdowns each day don't matter as much as they do in a smaller fleet.