An electric bus has caught fire in London, making it the third to burst into flames in the capital this month. The Independent has more.
Firefighters tackled the flames engulfing the single-deck bus at a bus garage on Chelverton Road in Putney on Wednesday.
Twenty people were evacuated from the garage before emergency services arrived on the scene.
A video posted on social media shows the large blaze inside Putney Bus Garage. …
Another London bus on fire this time inside bus garage …..
— Ediz (@ediz1975) January 24, 2024
What the hell is going on with our buses
Waiting for more info pic.twitter.com/tdIn5XmJuQ
In a message to staff, bus operator Go Ahead said a “precautionary fleet check” of around 380 electric buses is now underway. It added that the “events of this kind that took place inside our premises” on Wednesday “are very rare”.
“Very rare” – haven’t we heard that somewhere before?
In what world is three fires in a month “very rare”? It’s a weekly occurrence.
Worth reading in full.
Meanwhile, electric bikes have caused a record number of fires in New York City, according to the Telegraph. According to figures released by the New York Fire Department, e-bikes were responsible for 267 fires in the city during 2023, claiming 18 lives and causing 150 injuries, with fatalities increasing 200% (i.e., threefold) compared to the previous year.
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Bloody marvellous.
These ‘leccy buses are going off like fireworks.
Definitely ‘safe and effective.’ Well until someone gets killed or injured and then we’ll have….drum roll…
‘Lessons will be learned.’
When the 200 bus caught fire in Wimbledon a couple of weeks ago they removed all electric buses from the 200 route. But left them in place on other routes as if an electric bus can only catch fire if it’s numbered 200.
I live equidistant from Putney garage and the spot in Wimbledon where the 200 caught fire. Perhaps the electric buses are coming for me!
You have sinned my child against the great Greta in the sky, still time to repent.
I remember the 200 bus when it was a single decker internal combustion diesel engine. (forgive me Greta for I know not what i do). I used to catch it outside Fielders going home from school. Now it’s a double decker electric and if I had children now I’d tell ’em to walk home (yes, I know it’s a steep hill…go up Sunnyside if you must).
This is getting ridiculous and really dangerous. They ought to scrap the entire electric fleet immediately and buy some hydrogen-powered ones.
Can’t wait. They’ll go off with a bang when they find the technology is not as safe as they say it is.
Hindenbus
Net Zeppelin
funny
This is a feature not a bug.
They should only need turned off and on again, not burned and replaced.
What does a ‘precautionary fleet check’ actually mean? It’s just nonsense. These buses could go off off like Roman candles at any time due to their inherently unstable battery technology. It’s like vaccine injuries all over again – searching for possible clues as to why they might spontaneously combust (suffer heart attacks etc) when the answer is staring them in the face.
I prefer the good old days when all combustion was internal.
Comment of the day among some very strong contenders!
One bus – misfortune.
Two buses – coincidence.
Three buses – trend.
Four Buses—There were no fires.
The ‘very rare’ comment is very much like the ‘mental illness’ label we hear after another Islamist terror incident.
These lies are a major tool in the establishment toolkit
One bus – shame on you.
Two busses, shame on me.
Don’t be caught dead in one.
Just a coincidence, obviously. Either that or sabotage by alt right white supremacist extremists.
And ‘climate change.’
As the old saying goes: “Red sky at night – e-bus alight”.
Presumably, these buses are also “safe and effective”
They’ll protect others from getting infected with climate change by you provided everone’s wearing a high-quality face mask over his underpants.
Red sky in the morning – the problems with net zero warning.
Innovative technology to save the planet: the external combustion engine.
Do these still comply with ULEZ regulations while burning?
If you look at Ediz’s other posts you’ll see that the BEV buses use diesel for heating
The use of huge heavy lithium-ion batteries for transport is yet another example of the way our deranged powers that be are insisting that there is a technological solution to deliver all their diabolical plans and schemes. Covid vaccines, heat pumps and lithium-ion batteries for transport are all part of this petulant approach that insists that technology must deliver what they demand.
It does look as though the use of heavy lithium-ion batteries for transport may well be the issue on which the Net-Zero dream (nightmare) starts to come off the rails. Doubtless in years to come technological innovations will appear which will offer better options for transport. I am not a prophet and cannot predict what this will be but I do predict that in a hundred years time the human race will not be using heavy lithium-ion batteries for transport.
Net Zero ————No idea of cost and no idea if it is even remotely possible. Who in their right mind does anything so preposterous as this? —-STOP NOW- STOP NOW- STOP NOW————-COAL COAL COAL— GAS GAS GAS– OIL OIL OIL
Shouldn’t laugh…..
Very rare? This fire is obviously a 1/380 event- proven by the fact of the fire and the fleet of 380 vehicles. A high risk if you ask me.
These green communists are covering up the stupidity and dangerousness of EVs for their ideology. Disgusting people. Have not got the safety of the public at the forefront of their mission. Just working for Khan’s green caliphate ( green in a religious and enviro sense!)
Let’s all pray that Sadiq Khan becomes a London bus driver when he’s gone
But soon according to all the silly activists that cut another ear of Van Gogh in Art Galleries and chuck paint over banks and oil headquarters, lay down in the street and glue themselves to lamposts the whole world will be on fire anyway, so what does it matter?
The Establishment seems quite happy to wait for passengers to be incinerated – before admitting that there’s a bit of a problem with EVs.
I sold my EV bike a few months ago. I didn’t use it and it was being kept in my detached garage, along with a year’s supply of bio-ethanol, which didn’t seem like a very good idea
I won’t be buying an EV car.
Not only do lithium batteries explode, they also pack up in freezing weather, as Tesla owners in the US found out during the recent blizzards. The Finns showed the best way to deal with Teslas in their Youtube video, where they blew one up with dynamite in a quarry. Brilliant.