JAC Motors, a Volkswagen-backed Chinese automaker, unveiled the first mass-produced EV with a sodium-ion battery through its new Yiwei brand. Although sodium-ion battery tech has a lower density than lithium-ion, its lower costs, simpler and more abundant supplies and superior cold-weather performance could help accelerate mass EV adoption.
  • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    9 months ago

    Hope they simply bought trolley buses and didn’t waste money on battery buses

    It’s such a waste to put batteries in inner city buses

        • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
          54·
          9 months ago

          Sorry but youtube experts and their google research are not a reliable source of information for me. It’s entertaining but it’s the last thing I would base city planning on.

            • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
              22·
              9 months ago

              So some dude on the Internet says I’m wrong. Guess what? I’m also a dude on the Internet and I say he’s wrong. Checkers!

              • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
                21·
                9 months ago

                Yeah but this dude has this thing called common sense, try acquiring that first.

                Maybe then you can think about the implications of BE buses more than " cables need to be installed therefore Be is better than trolley"

                You might think about stuff like extra weight extra purchase cost, decreased capacity, more expensive road maintenance cost, less uptime due to charging, less efficiency due to weight, decreased range in cold or hot when AC is needed that makes everything worse

                • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
                  1·
                  9 months ago

                  Show me a town that recently switched to trolleys and done a cost/benefit analysis after couple of years that confirms they saved money and I will absolutely agree with you.

    • zik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Trolley buses are a weird niche. They require permanent overhead cable infrastructure like trams do but don’t have the other benefits of trams - higher capacity, greater speed, better ride and no tyre pollution. I figure if you’re going to install a trolley bus route you probably might as well install rails at the same time and get the benefits of trams. (Aka streetcars for the North Americans out there)

      The City of London did assessments on trolley buses and found that the added capacity of trams made them the better choice pretty much anywhere trolley buses were proposed, despite the slightly higher install cost.