Bus Catches Fire in Twickenham after 'Mechanical Failure' 

Thanks for pointing that out. I might have missed that otherwise .

@@ilovenitnat Obviously, a major malfunction...

About 15 years ago, I was driving home in the evening in Dresden, Germany, on a rather old MAN articulated bus. The route is quite steep uphill, normally only the tram runs there, but because there was construction work on the route again, only replacement transport with (often slightly older) buses was running. I was the only passenger on the bus and sat at the very back near the engine and could hear how the engine was noticeably struggling, even though the bus wasn't going that fast. That seemed strange to me and I informed the Dresden Transport Company (DVB). A few months earlier, I reported that the rear of a Solaris articulated bus was bouncing hard during the journey, causing the chassis to jolt. The DVB then informed me that the chassis was broken and, because my report had prevented engine damage, they thanked me with a private tour of the depot, where I was even allowed to drive a Solaris articulated bus myself. I hoped that I had saved another bus with my report, but unfortunately I found out from the media that about 1 or 2 weeks later a bus burned out at the Grosser Garten in Dresden. I looked at the pictures, it was exactly the bus that I had reported, whose engine was running so badly and terribly loudly. I (as a passenger) did what I could...

@@RolfSchreiter outstanding effort you made there. I'm surprised they took any notice of you at all. Often drivers frustrations with engineers (ok, let's call them fitters) would over flow. One bus i repeatedly warned that it wasn't making the right noise and it sounded as though there was some knocking on one cylinder. This was repeatedly denied, until the day it threw a rod through the block, meaning that the expensive engine block was now scrap instead of being repairable. I got sacked by Arriva for blowing the whistle about poor maintenance, and the tribunal agreed with me.

@@herseem it sounds bad. Hope you have a better employer now! - I shared my observations about the buses with both the driver and the DVB telephone hotline. The DVB are very committed, always have a relatively modern fleet, and are among the transport companies with the highest customer satisfaction every year in Germany, and not without reason!

According to one insurer, EVs are 20 times less likely to catch fire compared to ICE vehicles. Plenty articles online to back this up.

@@oddities-whatnotI mean I wouldn’t say any are “more” or “less” likely it truly depends on conditions and use this is probably a case of years or over working

‘Usual EV fires’ You mean, usual liquid fuel fires?

@@EVMan298 well this probably wasn’t started by liquid fuel considering the heat you need to catch deasel on fire is high so most likely somethings created friction causing exsessive heat

@@Thatspuremental It could be a lubricant leak? A fuel leak onto something very hot? I just don’t like the narrative out there that it ‘must be EV’ because the fire is out of control and the evidence is overwhelmingly against what willtucker2774 has typed.

And probably empty as well, if I was the owner of the car I'd be fuming 😡

@@stewartroberts2983better than doing what the American do break your windows and pull the hose through to the other side just because they can

There was a running fuel fire that was heading towards the adjacent property. Bloody nimby!

​@firemanTony they don't do it because they can! They do it when a vehicle is illegally parked blocking a hydrant

10 year old diesel bus. Numpty

Musst be a battery fire, there is no way Busses engined with flammable liquids can burn.

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⁠@@jenshollmann3650bro knows nothing about these buses,YY64YJU is a ADL enviro200 that is some 10 years old,if your really on to battery fires YY64YJU does not have a battery

@@Fire711_Real And now read my andswer again but with the irony and sacarstic mode `'on'.