So... About Those Trolleybuses

Sorry about the focus issues!

When the Vancouver Trolle buses were purchased, they were a leap ahead in technology than what we had before. At time of the release of this video, our Trollies were old. A year later, we are looking at the next generation of trollies.

I believe Septa in Philadelphia Pa got rid of there Trackless Electric Buses also.

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They are a better investment than regular buses. Batteries are bad for the environment no matter how good they become, Toxic landfill is just sweeping environmental issues under the rug.

Could this battery assisted trolleybus be made in a smaller bus form for smaller cities that normally don't have any kind of public transportation?

Wellington in New Zealand removed it trolley buses in 2017 and substituted low emission diesel buses...no such thing?) next thing people suffer from diesel particle pollution.
NZ politicians still in the car centric 1960's and the powerful Total Road Dependency Cartel opposes passenger rail/ trams solutions for our cities. The fastest growing city, Tauranga is the worst where local governance/ councils wants 6 lane highways- oh! -but these are "climate friendly roads" just more depressing BS in 2023 !

The overhead wires are ugly and messy, especially in historic city centres and especially at busy junctions.

Trolly Buses are a thing of the past, the dinosaur of the Bus World with ugly over head wire in streets, they were disposed of in the UK due to there intractability in not being able to be extended into new Housing development or extended long distance into the country side from Cities to out lying villages, the technology of trolley buses when the UK got rid of them was totally out dated to a point the UK got rid of them in 1972 including two of last operators Bradford and the West Midlands PTE, even London Transport got rid of them turning to the more versatile Diesel bus. The UK is now turning to the Battery Electric Bus which is as versatile as a Diesel BUs and the ones built and running in the UK run alday and are only charged when they return to their garage at the end of the Buses duty

Why in India we are not doing this? Whyyyyyyy?

There may be a range issue with battery buses especially on long routes, also those batteries may be heavy too heavy perhaps for the upper level of the Harvard Square Bus Tunnel. Also, the manufacturers should be almighty careful about thermal runaway with Lithium Ion batteries. If that happens on a crowded battery transit bus, expect mass casualties, lawsuits, hearings in the legislature and maybe Congress which may uncover things politicians DO NOT want uncovered!

I live Lyon, trolley buses go past my apartment, although by the the time they get here they have to put the rails down as the wires end at my place. 😂

Living in Boston now, it feels like the mbta just assumed that they would use old trolleys instead of doing the needed upgrade of infrastructure. It’s a joke

I think it is very easy to transfer brt system from deisel buses to trolley buses because brt system already have dedicated separate lanes

I agree on bad Boston.

Given the extreme cost of erecting overhead power supply for trolleybuses, and the cost of refurbishing when they wear out, I suspect we have seen the end of trolleybuses. New installations will be battery powered, like Line G in Los Angeles.

Line G in the San Fernando Valley has switched to battery powered buses and they seem to work well. I rode one, and the biggest problem is that Line G gets too many riders, even though they run every 10 minutes. Line G is getting replaced by LRT in the next few documents.

This video is soo good... really fun to watch and a lot of surprising info.

Oh yea, trolley busses with Li batteries to make them independent for a short distance, very good idea...

the only reason to rip up trolleybusses is to replace them with a tram

Don’t remember them in London, the last of them went when I was five and there were none in the area where I lived. Rode on them in Moscow in 1974.

So why rhis city Vancouver removing Trolley bhs wirh EV Buses ???

Vancouver does have battery-electric buses that charge at some stops

We chose a different route in Pomona CA USA we tried battery cell didn't go well wouldn't stay charged we went to hydrogen fuel cell bus

Verona, italy, my hometown is introducing a trolleybus line that run partially on battery, but runs on battery in the historic center to avoid putting down the infrastructure there

I love that you talk about diesel engines=bad, bateries=good....because manufacturing a battery costs more oil than a diesel bus consumes in its lifetime, and they are extremely unfriendly to enviroment. And modern diesel engines with adblue and euro 6 standard has almost zero emissions, only CO2, and plants need that, so decarbonisation is really a lunatic idea. This baterry madness will be an ecological disaster.

Okay but when are there going to be third-rail trolleybuses? 🤨

But boy are they UGLY!

Did you know the Old Trolley Buses from Vancouver ended up in Mendoza Argentina

Not about trolleys but a problem with electric busses in general in my region.
So I live in the Spessart, Germany a range of some 1000 ft mountains nothing special. Anyways we have some villages on top of that mountains and steep road up to them. The local bus provider tested out battery-electric busses on that routes since they are not that long. (Just 30km for a round trip) The problem was, those roads required so much power from the motors that they actually failed or the battery ran out before they did. And trolley wires do not help either since you do not have an electric motor capable of that route. For now we will have to stick to normal busses.

Now that nyc has given up on building an airtring between LGA and the subway, maybe it would be worth upgrading the LGA shuttle to an electric trolleybus.

Trollebus >>>> "Wi Fi" battery buses

Proponents of trolley busses must understand that they - perfectly - belong to smaller mountainous cities.

They don't belong to cities over 1m, as such cities should have actual rail-based rapid transit.

They also, unfortunately (sadly…) don't belong to flat cities, because the skills required to operate and maintain them aren't available in your local job center. Read my lips: you may wish to switch to electric fleet just as much as we all do, but we don't have the army of electricians and mechanics to maintain those vehicles, at least not yet.

I think that trolleys might be good idea on the outskirts of city. As you get electricy from the cable, so less carring battery, but you can share road with other vehicles, and if the street in general is low volume, it could be more cost effective.

I miss edmontons trolley buses !!

Edmonton here. I kind of miss the old trolley busses.

Nice video, Like !

In my country diesel bus to operate cost 90 rubles while trolleybus is just 15 rubles so its no wonder that village of Chisinau, Moldova has its own trolleybus (it also becomes the first ever village to operate trolleybus)

Brisbane in Australia? Maybe in Austria?

Also aside me going off topic, am i not the only one who will be mindly infuriated, angry, and ashamed at once? Im pretty sure most of us can agree with it. I am also saying this because when i heard trolleybusses were removed from toronto i was absolutely angry with toronto for doing so.

I agree, BAD BOSTON BAD CITY BAD!

We need this tech in NYC! 🚎

São Paulo is also a city that is tearing down trolley infrastructure… by the way, I find strange that this city never gets mentioned in these videos, despite having such a huge bus system (and even footage from it being used in the BRT video)

When I first lived around electric trolley busses I was impressed more by the reduction in sound pollution than by anything else. I've come to love electric busses!

Tallinn in Estonia have trolley buses too! But my city, Stavanger had in the past :(

Great video! Brought back memories of dewiring in San Francisco, but then blew me away with the the whole in-motion charging concept. I had thought that induction loop charging was the way that that would have to go.

Most medium to large towns in the former Soviet Union have trolley buses.
Indeed, the longest trolley bus route in the world is in Crimea, running from Simferopol to Yalta (about 90km). And yes, I have been on it 🙂

We have a trolleybuses in my city Sarajevo Bosnia and Hercegovina and i am driving with them to school and back to bus station .