Posted on 12/14/2023 3:18:02 PM PST by DFG
At the beginning of last week, several bus services in Oslo were cancelled. The reason was that the new electric buses could not cope with the cold.
On Monday, about 50 city buses were cancelled and taken out of service. The bus company Ruter reported that the range of the electric buses was not as good as usual because of the cold weather. It was about 12 degrees below zero.
– The buses run out of power more quickly. We are now registering what happens day by day, and then we will see how we can improve this in the future, Cathrine Myhren-Haugen, communications manager at Ruter, told the Norwegian newspaper Nordre Aker Budstikke.
Oslo has invested in electric buses in the city and currently has 183 vehicles equipped with 500 kWh battery packs, which typically have a range of over 250 kilometers.
On Tuesday, the cold weather continued to cause problems for the electric buses and more departures had to be cancelled. A total of 90 bus departures were reportedly canceled.
By the end of 2023, the company plans to have 320 electric buses, which the bus company’s CEO previously described as a “great victory for the environment.”
Idiots.
Its why most of Wisconsin has never seen an electric car. Half the year you have to cut the max mileage in half. And you have to figure you are burning twice the electricity per mile as well. EVs make no sense in the north.
Twelve below Celsius, not Fahrenheit.
-12 Celsius is 10 Fahrenheit
Norway is a hydrocarbon source.
Drill, baby, drill.
What happen when Oslo had those electric trolley things ?
Frozen batteries don’t like be recharged willy nilly.
Of course, this is caused by Global Warming.
10 degrees Fahrenheit is quite cold enough to send most EVs to the scrap heap.
Maybe they could use them as bricks for building housing for the homeless.
;-)
It is to laugh.
10 F is not uncommon in West Texas.
Add in the distances between town, well forget it.
Electric trolleys work in cold weather; I took an electric train in Switzerland back around December 2007 or so.
They’ve been around since the 1800’s but it’s not what the greenies in charge want.
One of my friends from NYC drives an electric bus here in Appalachia and he says it is barely able to handle it. He says “If it was in Binghamton, it would be parked”
It’s not like they couldn’t research that stuff ahead of time. 🙄
They use electric trolleys in Russia, if I’m correct.
Couldn’t see that one coming.
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