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Posted by TransitChuckG on Thu Sep 17 09:34:02 2020 Problems |
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Posted by pragmatist on Thu Sep 17 09:40:49 2020, in response to Septa battery buses-MIA, posted by TransitChuckG on Thu Sep 17 09:34:02 2020. Interesting to see that it is not an issue with performance of the battery energy/drive system which is new technology, and appears to be good old "how to build a bus" stuff. As a new manufacturer, these kind of events can make or break your future. Let's see how they respond.... |
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Posted by TransitChuckG on Thu Sep 17 09:44:11 2020, in response to Re: Septa battery buses-MIA, posted by pragmatist on Thu Sep 17 09:40:49 2020. Thank you! pragmatist |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Thu Sep 17 12:18:54 2020, in response to Septa battery buses-MIA, posted by TransitChuckG on Thu Sep 17 09:34:02 2020. Guess they should've strung up some wire and maybe added some tracks.Yeah, it has nothing to do with cracks. But the Iron Horse doesn't crack that easily. |
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Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Thu Sep 17 15:46:54 2020, in response to Septa battery buses-MIA, posted by TransitChuckG on Thu Sep 17 09:34:02 2020. Plastic chassis?Oh my! |
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Posted by TransitChuckG on Thu Sep 17 15:52:45 2020, in response to Re: Septa battery buses-MIA, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Thu Sep 17 15:46:54 2020. I does not make any sense...... Maybe it's a plastic part that attaches to the chassis????? |
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Posted by TransitChuckG on Thu Sep 17 15:55:41 2020, in response to Re: Septa battery buses-MIA, posted by TransitChuckG on Thu Sep 17 15:52:45 2020. The spokesperson said SEPTA believed the issues would be covered by a manufacturer’s warranty. Although Busch declined to reveal the issue that caused the agency to remove the buses from service, multiple agency sources blamed a defect in the buses’ plastic chassis that led to a cracking problem.It does say "plastic chassis", must be some"not so miracle" plastic!! :(:(:( |
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Posted by pragmatist on Thu Sep 17 16:06:15 2020, in response to Re: Septa battery buses-MIA, posted by TransitChuckG on Thu Sep 17 15:55:41 2020. These days anything that isn't metal gets called plastic. It could well be a carbon graphite composite, those get called plastic pretty often. |
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Posted by northshore on Thu Sep 17 16:54:42 2020, in response to Septa battery buses-MIA, posted by TransitChuckG on Thu Sep 17 09:34:02 2020. Proterras have been around 10 years. Why are there problems now? |
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Posted by pragmatist on Thu Sep 17 17:52:06 2020, in response to Re: Septa battery buses-MIA, posted by northshore on Thu Sep 17 16:54:42 2020. I don't know SEPTA too well, but Proterra did make some changes to the Catalyst E-bus and introduced an updated model. I don't know if the new model uses the same composite body shell, or even if those are the ones that SEPTA received, but as far as I know, the old ones were pretty rugged. But like anything, you can build something well for a long time, and all of a sudden something changes and things go south. |
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Posted by TransitChuckG on Fri Sep 18 04:06:21 2020, in response to Re: Septa battery buses-MIA, posted by pragmatist on Thu Sep 17 16:06:15 2020. Carbon graphite compositeThat makes sense. Thank you!! |
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Posted by TransitChuckG on Fri Sep 18 04:19:24 2020, in response to Re: Septa battery buses-MIA, posted by pragmatist on Thu Sep 17 16:06:15 2020. Carbon fibers |
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