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The best electric busses have electric lines overhead, so you don't need big batteries.
Kinda hard to do that in the suburbs.
Strong disagree. If you have telephone poles by the road, the power is already there
Power poles in the suburbs here (Canberra) run along back fences, they only exist near the road where they cross a road
Sydney might be able to hang wires over the road from it's power poles; no idea if the poles are up to it
No telephone poles anywhere near my house. Only along main roads at least 30 mins walk away.
All the household electrical wiring, internet, cable TV, telephone, natural gas, and water services are underground.
So yeah...power is already there
Yeah and it’ll cost millions to tear up the roads and install overhead wires for the bus, just to service 1 neighbourhood out of hundreds, where hardly anyone uses public transit as it is.
Well, that's kind of the problem we're trying to fix here