[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.