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Because it is a false premise and it is you who is in denial. We both know what the problem is, lithium ion batteries in some bus model applications but not present in others. And it is not three london buses burnt in two weeks, it is three london buses burnt in the period since the last one...

I was only referring to examples that have been altered anyway, to show how common they have been in the past. So no need for updates to them. The present issue of kit bike non-existence in law isn't going to be addressed as I've explained. The present system of ignoring them where necessary...

Nothing can be practically done. Our EAPC law is EU law that we are tied into regardless of Brexit. They aren't going to change that non-issue for us, especially after the way in which we fouled it up for twelve years contrary to their 2003 legal order, plus the ongoing ill will between us...

Exactly, the different make, model, cause, previous history, names of the drivers, the winner of the football match last week and the price of bread are all as irrelevant to the issue. Where fire risk is concerned, only the relevant matters. Are you even aware that some hybrid e-buses use NiMh...

You do have grounds and a proven path. When the police have either seized or unfairly attempted prosecution ofan EAPC on legal grounds we have successfully opposed that, even making the DfT step down. Common practice is a legal ground. For example when any of the public have used a route...

No, three different makes and models, mixed BEV and Hybrid. The latest fire at Putney was in a Go Ahead Optare-Switch model. Go Ahead have hundreds of them and their last fire in one of those was in May 2022, both while charging. So two fires in ten months. .

It's not necessary to change it. The whole of Europe have simply ignored this bit of legal minutiae and no action has been or ever will be taken against. The law is the first to admit that the law is an ass at times. Some proofs of there being no need for action: Despite there being a path...

Exactly. The first electric bus entered service in Central London in 1907 with the London Electrobus Company. The electrobus needed 1.5 tonnes of lead-acid batteries to carry its 34 passengers. It could travel 60km (40 miles) on one charge. So at lunchtime the buses went to a garage in...

More exaggeration, they have not been burning at anything remotely like this January rate. There's no point in my replying to this anti EV silliness, the three classes of e-buses are here, they are staying and will be the entire fleet eventually. With new designs still being introduced there...

They aren't normally switched from inside the house but can be locked installations. He may have foolishly had an open one installed where others could get access to it and perhaps think it was a public one. There are 3,568 free public chargers in the uk so the woman could have made a genuine...

It was probably installed by Photoshop. ;) .

It's good that you can detect a difference, but there's a very long way to go to reach acceptability. Ella Kissi-Debrah died, aged nine, after an acute asthma attack in south London on 15 February 2013. She had had more than 25 emergency hospital admissions in the previous three years. In...

Yes, technically they need SVA in the rest of the EU as well, as I explained at length in my pedelecs legal thread , repeated below, but it's widely ignored law: Kit Motors Be aware that hardly any of the above applies to kits or any home construction, the regulations only being for...

I missed this earlier, it's simply conspiracy theory nonsense: The country making the EV switch most rapidly is China, not in the Western world. They have not been told by anyone to do it, they are doing it entirely out of need in the face of clear physical evidence, very visible to all of...

Exaggeration, we have thousands of them, 56% of our entire bus fleet. There are 3,835 hybrid buses, 950 battery electric buses, and 20 hydrogen fuel cell buses operating in London, as of March 2023, out of a total bus fleet of 8,643. In many cases other countries are not suffering the same...

I don't understand what you are getting at? TfL are not an operational bus company. The bus companies buy or lease the buses as I explained, some of the new routemasters leased from TfL's ownership among them, but they have not been causing most of the fires, as I also posted. .

Effectively that is what they do, since the range of possible answers to meet the legal demand to drastically and rapidly reduce polution are so limited. .

BJ as mayor both instigated the design of the new Routemaster and ordered them, but they are not the majority of traction battery buses implicated in fires. Many have been fully electric Optare Metrodeckers, which are body built here on Chinese BYD fully drivable chassis. Others have been...

Of course, the law is very clear, but that isn't due to Sadiq Khan as I explained. The legal requirements need to be met, nine years now after the Supreme Court ruling, and of course having a labour mayor to carry the can suits a Tory government which did so little about this urgent issue when...

Given how broke Britain is now, it's perhaps a new way to fund police forces? ;)