Lithium-ion batteries are here to save public transportation! Just kidding, the problems with vehicle-scale batteries go from bad to worse when the technology is applied large, heavy buses. Battery-electric buses are the US government's latest investment of choice, and we discuss why these buses are inferior to the much older and much more reliable trolleybus. Trolleybuses with charging-in-motion are better for the environment, better for the roads, and best of all, cheaper! They are the electrification solution that denser urban areas with mid to high bus traffic need, with battery-only buses serving a secondary role.
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00:00 Intro
00:46 The News
00:46 MBTA Orange Line shutdown progress
04:47 What is a trolleybus?
06:25 Switches
07:30 Two wires
07:52 Charging-in-motion
08:25 Trolleybuses in former Eastern Bloc countries
10:17 Trolleybuses in North America [2]
11:02 Boston
12:23 Dayton, Ohio [13]
13:06 History [1]
14:30 Streetcar replacement
15:25 Survivors
16:18 Interurban trolleybuses [14]
17:35 The battery-electric bus [9]
18:12 Off-wire useful for some routes
19:30 Electrification good
20:37 Huge batteries bad
22:35 Metra and BNSF's battery locomotives [16] [17] [18]
24:19 Charging means more vehicles are needed
26:13 Cost of charging infrastructure
26:49 Catching fire [11] [21]
30:20 The University of Utah's one BEB
31:15 BEBs work, but trolleys are better
32:12 Smaller, safer batteries
32:41 Long lifespan
33:17 Battery mining bad
34:30 Cost [5]
36:34 MBTA [7] [22]
37:10 Limitations of trolleys
37:22 Infrastructure costs
39:20 Weather
40:32 NIMBYs
42:41 The best solution
43:09 Salt Lake City: 200 South [24]
45:34 Outro
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