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Often overlooked but electric buses are very heavy. Here in my small hometown they visibly started decaying the road infrastructure super fast in many places si
by j_4 1y ago
Often overlooked but electric buses are very heavy. Here in my small hometown they visibly started decaying the road infrastructure super fast in many places since they got introduced. Not impossible to patch up, but not a negligible cost of moving to the tech.
- dangerlibrary 1y agoThe US Government did a study in the 1950s and discovered that the damage done to a roadway by a car is proportional to the fourth power of its axle weight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
- rsynnott 1y agoHrm. Dublin bus has been replacing its fleet of diesel buses with electric. Both old and new are around 20 tonnes fully laden.