You said it! But as with trains - despite the UK creating 'railways' - it now seems incapable of manufacturing, but is proud to assemble imported kits......quite pathetic.
Those buses can spy on the passengers. They listen in to your conversations and report straight to Beijing. They can even brainwash you and turn you into a communist. Beware.
@@Alex-pj8nz lol, who said im an amercian. The Adl byd e400ev are made in the uk, but this one is not. Pls get yr info right becore arguing with ppl. Thank you
Very good video, thanks. I think the design appearance of the boris bus is more pleasing and much more of a nod to our older buses. That said, I’m sure it will do well. However, it does seem wrong to be importing our London buses from across the world; we need the new government to get involved and build our industries back up to build our own. I’m also not convinced we should be moving to battery powered buses, given the extremely questionable sources and limited supplies of the rare earth minerals required for the batteries. Far better for us to reintroduce the trolley bus which does not rely on batteries and can carry more passengers. They work perfectly well in cities around the world and are far simpler to install and operate.
Glad you enjoyed it. We have of course been importing buses for decades - Volvo and Scania from Sweden, DAF from Netherlands etc. And as for bodies the popular MCV bodywork is from Egypt, the large batch of Scania double-deckers in London were bodied in Poland, and so on. We do manufacture here but Switch Mobility is owned in India; Alexander Dennis is owned in Canada. Wrightbus is the only truly British manufacturer, saved from total collapse by Jo Bamford.
Is it what you call, free market when you only want to sell your stuffs in China, but not accepting products from China? Don't forget China is a big market, buying the products of Apple, Tesla, McDonald's, Coca Cola, Nvidia, AsML, and more.
Two unconnected things. The BD11 replaces the previous BYD/ADL product. New Routemasters are already up to 13 years old and will reach the end of their natural life over the next few years. If London adopts a policy of zero emission buses by 2030 that will be their last possible date in service
KMB, Kowloon Motor Bus' just introduced a fleet of Alexander Dennis BYD double decker electric buses. I wonder if it's the same model as this one. Probably a different model because double deckers usually have three axles.
Presumably the heated seats of which you refer will be the inferior technology attached to the self combusting battery beneath the seats. Personally I do not trust the technology and will not be using it, in buses or taxis. My wife has a hybrid car, and I will not have it on the drive at home. It lives off of the property in the street whereby when it goes wrong, it will not harm anything of value. I do not subscribe to current thinking trends, and on principle will not now or ever have followed a crowd. The only reason that I reluctantly accept a hybrid for the wife is, I can no longer purchase an I.C.E Toyota Yaris, and flatly refuse to own any enemy eu produced inferior every day car. I would rather stay at home!
@@chrisround941 I tried out an electric car a while ago that a friend of mine owned (2014 model) and it kept throwing up errors, it turned out it would be too expensive to have it repaired and only the manufacturer could repair it because if any battery packs were swapped out the system would stop working. Someone different was thinking of buying an electric car and I suggested they don't but they got talked in to buying one anyway (2019 model) which still works but the battery capacity has shrunk and it can't drive anywhere near the distance that it is supposed to.
There’s no connection. The New Routemasters are already up to 12 years old. A long time since a London bus fleet of 1000 vehicles ran their full life span and they will last longer than the notional 14 year limit. They will be life expired over the rest of the decade
Agree. Looks kinda ugly. And im not a fan of the byd body build. quality. Im more looking forward to the new gen e400ev. Also the icon of the city should not be replaced by some chinese buses.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tRuE7C3EFmY.htmlsi=YmVZIITxzBRj94TO Are these vehicles safe? What happens to the driver and passengers? I shudder to think.
There does seem to be a lot of discussion and videos about battery vehicles going up in flames, especially BYD ones. I think the rush into current battery technologies has been premature and frankly reckless when there are safer ones coming along.
10:07 @@alacarte5073No, when a battery goes up it is much harder if not sometimes impossible to put out. Danish firefighters submerse electric cars into a water filled container for a week in case the fire starts again. Not sure if that's possible with a huge bus!
@@rogerstarkey5390 No reason a "tool" shouldn't be well designed and pleasing to look at.......the original Routemaster became a tourist attraction in it's own right - a win win success I'd say!
@@rogerstarkey5390london is a bit special. London buses shd not just be considered as a tool as Red london buses has always been an icon of London city streets. Thats why the new route masters only seen in London and designed by Aston Martin.
Thomas Heatherwick and the Heatherwick Studio (who designed the New Routemaster) are really fantastic. Thomas has actually started a university degree on humanised, anti-boring architecture. Really great stuff.
@@mach1nefan I agree - Thomas really understands 'design' - whereas the Alexander body fitted to the BYD is a poor pastiche of his 'new' Routemaster, just by copying 'bits' of it without understanding the concept. London deserves better! Also, is saving a few hundred thousand pounds by buying from China really worth it.....what does it say about London and the UK?
Definitely one of your very best videos. The BYD video presentation was good from a top electric vehicle manufacturer, not just buses. I would have liked to have seen more of the chassis close up. I note the bus uses cameras rather than mirrors, another step into the future. ❤
It's not a step into the future, it is another unnecessary costly component to replace when it breaks. Whereas conventional mirrors can easily be swapped from one bus to another, even if the one you take it off is a different model.
We could do with electric buses everywhere. Even though i really love classic vehicles of all kinds (went to a gathering of classic buses and coaches in Taunton yesterday) electric buses are the future.
I think it says something that the conventional buses leaving under thier own power will leave the whiff of diesel fumes behind them whereas the electric ones could drive around in there all day.
That quite an accomplishment, as weight carrying are very underperforming for electric motor. Even Telsa truck. They say 300 miles but really 200 with light load, would love to see the spec.
@@leswall3061I think in this case they are coach built in China by BYD. They did show a Chassis too which would imply it is available as just a Chassis too?
Is it your comment that is meant to be amusing or vehicles burning that is meant to be amusing. I think neither is it amusing or relevant. Stop the ignorance and FUD.
