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by magicalhippo 640 days ago
Here in Oslo, Norway, they got BEV busses for a lot of lines, and last year was a really cold winter. Somehow, the ones in power were shocked to discover the range dropped to half due to the electric heaters needing a lot of power, causing a public transportation chaos as busses queued up for charging instead of transporting passengers.

Now the busses are getting retrofitted with fuel-based heaters, which will be running on bio-diesel... better than nothing I guess.