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    TAKEN FOR A RIDE: The Real Cost of Getting from A to B on Passenger Carrying Vehicles

    The central focus throughout this work is the successful progression and environmental advancement to establish clean air in metropolitan centres where, per force, transport systems converge. With that convergence air pollution increases.

    Given that as a fact, the concentration of evidence and acceptability takes the 2013 European urban transport report as a focal point to work from. The focus of that report is the replacement of diesel engine powered Passenger Carrying Vehicles (PCVs), previously known as Public Service Vehicles (PSVs), with an alternative non air polluting means of propulsion for PCVs.

    The time taken to install a project, the cost of that project and the benefit derived from the installation are of paramount importance. This publication brings projects into 2022 costings and opens the contrary public transport world up to intimate scrutiny.

    If you are a clean air enthusiast then this analysis of the last 25 yours brought into 2024 perspective is a MUST READ.

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    Trolleybus Revolution -UK

    “Don’t confuse me with the facts it is what I perceive that is the truth”.

    There are circa 38,000 buses (Double deck) and 19,000 coaches (single deck) in the UK and 895,000 public service vehicles in Europe. Can a full electric or hydrogen (or other non-fossil fuel facility) be developed and manufactured in sufficient quantity by 2030? 2035? 2050?

    Is the electric vehicle or for that matter the hydrogen powered vehicle the panacea to pollution control?

    Trolleybus Revolution – UK asks its reader to consider if the electric vehicle is the answer to urban air pollution. Is the battery electric bus (BEB) the cost-effective answer? That would depend on how it, the bus, receives its (charging) power. Compare: central charging and the extra bus for every 5 in the fleet or stage en route charging an extra bus for every 6. In motion charging requires only enough buses to do the job. A saving of £600,000 per additional vehicle to purchase. How many 5s in 38,000?

    Consider a vehicle that is electrically powered in an urban environment and diesel powered in a non-urban environment – a hybrid. Trolleybus Revolution UK seeks to examine facts born of science, experience, via a logical cost benefit examination. Get rid of perceptions history is rife with  them such as:

    “When the Paris exhibition closes electric light will disappear with it”. (Prof Wilson, Oxford Uni. 1848)

    It is a revealing book.

     

    £12.99