Hi Tony, sorry I missed your follow-up post.
Yes, as I understand it, the electric buses are higher cost to purchase,
but lower cost over time. Hopefully more appear in Victoria. Just a single
unit driving around is a bit sad.

Daniel

On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 at 22:50, TP historyworks@...> wrote:

> Yes, I did mention that in another thread (this thread spawned two or

> three threads of parallel discussion). Transdev Melbourne is keeping its

> Volgren BYD bus; Volgren in Melbourne has manufactured three more of the

> same that have gone to Transdev Sydney and another new one has gone to

> Transdev Brisbane. I suspect that in Victoria, as in NSW and Queensland,

> it will be private operators who start buying electric buses on their own

> initiative. Now that operators have become more assured that these buses

> will do the job of a diesel, the lower operating costs are a great

> incentive to purchase.

>

> Tony P

>

> On Wednesday, 14 April 2021 at 20:38:43 UTC+10danie...@... wrote:

>

>> By the way, since there was an update on this thread, just harking back

>> to the original post that kicked it off:

>>

>> I've been told the electric bus trialled by Transdev is still in service

>> in Melbourne. It hasn't/isn't being moved to Brisbane.

>>

>>

>>

>> On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 at 10:35, TP histor...@...> wrote:

>>

>>> The Volgren BYD electric bus being trialled by Transdev in Melbourne is

>>> being transferred to Transdev Brisbane to join a growing list of electric

>>> bus trials being promoted by the Queensland government.

>>>

>>

>