{"id":1279,"date":"2022-05-12T12:19:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T02:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=bac65d36c6aee33c45a3d51cfcef7fb1"},"modified":"2022-05-12T12:19:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T02:19:37","slug":"what-is-better-for-the-environment-diesel-or-electric-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=1279","title":{"rendered":"What is better for the environment &#8211; diesel or electric buses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video comment comparing battery buses and trolleybuses &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>{{youtube: https:\/\/youtu.be\/B78-FgNqdc8}}<\/p>\n<p>Up to 2017 Wellington had an extensive trolleybus network using buses they had an average life of 8 years, was decommissioned according to some regional Councillors on the Greater Wellington Regional Council at the time, the network was expensive to maintain, created visual pollution and couldn&#8217;t be integrated into the new diesel bus based multi transfer bus &#8216;rapid bus network&#8217;, despite 6 trolleybus routes could have been used in the new bus network and reduce toxic diesel and noise emission in Wellington&#8217;s central city area. \\<br \/>\n \\<br \/>\nNow the Greater Wellington Regional Council is encouraging the replacement of diesel buses with battery buses. \\<br \/>\n \\<br \/>\nSince Wellington city has a hilly topography which is good for trolleybus operation and with some out of the square forward thinking by the Great Wellington Regional Council, Wellington&#8217;s trolleybus network could have been retain and move towards a electric battery trolleybus fleet as used in Prague\/Praha, for existing trolleybus and none trolleybus routes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>{{youtube: https:\/\/youtu.be\/I06pUa8C8wU}}<\/p>\n<p>Wellington trolleybuses could also operate on batteries &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>{{youtube: https:\/\/youtu.be\/H6D2hmTHnbo}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video comment comparing battery buses and trolleybuses &#8211; Up to 2017 Wellington had an extensive trolleybus network using buses they had an average life of 8 y<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}