The INSANE New Electric Buses of Amsterdam 

You know what's better than an electric bus? A trolly bus. Or make it a trolly bus with a "small" battery, do in-motion-charging, and only put up half the wires in a central location that covers multiple lines. 10 years later you replace a teslas worth of battery, not 10 teslas worth, which is basically buying a whole new bus.

We've almost transitied to a 100% electric bus park in Oslo now, and the difference is really night and day. I used to hate traveling on buses as I just generally found them unpleasant and loud, but the new electric ones genuinely are a lot nicer to use. I actually prefer them sometimes to the Metro in summer as the prior does not have any air condition which makes it just a tad uncomfortable when the degrees tip 27C or so

Informational, passionate, and showing us a part of the world the US wishes they had. What an amazing video man. Best one yet! Keep it up!

We've had them for several years now and i must say, these buses are great! I remember taking a random trip to aalsmeer when these buses got introduced, the ride was incredibly smooth, and they even have USB ports for charging your devices!! Overall i think the manufacturer of these buses, VDL, are doing an incredible job in the european market, and i was delighted to see them in service in Osnabrück Germany on a train-layover. Great to learn i'm not the only one appreciating these simple vehicles, like they should be!

We have had electric buses for a long time in Oslo - Norway. Now in July, all the buses are electric after delivery of 180 in April and 150 buses in June / July. All boats to the islands and the commuter boats are also fully electric. 89% of all private cars sold in 2022 and 2023 are also electric - so this will be good.

We have similar digital mirrors on some of our buses here in Brisbane. They are a significant improvement over mirrors for several reasons; no need to manually adjust their position for each driver, fewer blind spots, and great clarity in wet weather. All too often the mirrors will get covered in raindrops, and cars can become invisible! Imagine a silver hatchback without their headlights on, exactly the same colour as the road and spray, further camouflaged by the drops on the mirror. With the cameras, we can see them clear as day. I remember being really impressed when we were being shown them for the first time in the depot, on a drilling day, being able to see the ripples of raindrops in puddles beside the bus on the screen. Significant improvement, and I hope to see them become more widespread on buses, trucks, and private cars as well.

I actually had an internship at where these busses are maintained and it was very fun. Got to know alot about them and see what the best seat is. My one complaint with these busses is that I much prefer the layouts in the ebusco electric ones especially the nice raised back and front seat with windscreen view

RET in the Rotterdam area has had electric buses running in my town for a few years now. When I now go to another city and a traditional diesel bus passes me by it really strikes me just how LOUD they are. The difference is incredible.

The humming noises were implemented on early model Toyota Prius Hybrid vehicles in Japan, they used a similar system with a speaker. This was in response to an increase in low speed collisions with pedestrians as the vehicles were virtually silent in electric mode.

Enjoyable and interesting! And a honorable mention for your repeated pronunciation of *AMSTERDAM* like it’s supposed to be written in all capitals 😂

Love the enthusiasm, I live (study & work) in the Netherlands for like 4 years and that's the first time I feel so enthusiastic about being here :D thanks to your passion and the way you say AmsterDAM :D love it man, amazing, keep up the good work! Subscribed!

I worked at Schiphol airport and have ridden on these busses. They are excellent city busses. They are fast, comfortable and very quiet. But they are not cheap. Remember, they also require a considerable weight of rare earths, expensive minerals and metals. They also need electricity to run. That means a reliable, guaranteed supply of electricity. So not solar or wind and I don’t think Holland does hydro. Dutch greenies have stopped nuclear so these busses are powered by gas and nuclear imported from France.

Hi I'm from the UK and had a few points to make about your great video: 1. I own a car with camera mirrors (Honda e) and while I think that they about a wash with traditional mirrors, the ones you show are fantastic. As tech gets cheaper I wouldn't be surprised if any basic car has them in about 15 years. 2. In London at least, for at least a decade I've been able to use my debit card, iPhone or watch to tap in and out of public transport. Even my mum in her 70s with no internet uses her contactless card when visiting me. If I visit the US and it's as bad as you say, you're going to get a random English guy saying some very naughty words and waving his arms around. 3. I genuinely appreciate you saying when you're not knowledgeable enough about something to be sure. I'm a surgeon not an engineer, but one of the best lessons a boss has taught me is "The second best answer is always 'I don't know"' Keep it up, I've subscribed and if you're really lucky you won't get another extremely verbose comment from me!

With regards to closing the back doors early - I’d suggest it’s maybe also because the rear doors usually trigger a ‘hold-brake’ which takes a few seconds to clear once the doors are closed. So it’s quicker going to close the rear doors as soon as possible so the hold break is ready to release as soon as you’ve finished boarding.

I just discovered this channel this is amazing 😂 i love it

A really entertaining and informative video about something I hadn't really known about beforehand. You've earned yourself a new sub, hope your channel soon gains the attention it deserves when you publish more vids in the future :D

Great Video! This makes me feel great pleasure seeing how Amsterdam is developing into a transport orientated city.

I'm so happy that someone made such a cool and enthusiastic video about buses!

Thanks for the insights and welcome to RU-vid !

Fine video, your enthousiasme is infectious!

We have similar buses in the UK, Electric Double Deckers with Camera Mirrors are becoming more common here. There are not many buses with Pantograph charging however, the main ones are the Volvo 7900E's with Harrogate Bus Company. They are also testing Pantograph charging in London.

Great video, nice and informative! 1:08 I don’t usually do that with buses, but with trains, I still admire buses, but I don’t take tons of picture, but almost every time I take the train here in switzerland I take a picture, and find some new details which I previously overlooked.

Omg great video 😊

Awesome video!

The diesel bus in the first part of the video is gonna be replaced later this year. My transit concession will go all electric in the fall of this year. I live along the bus route of the one you got on camera, and i'm not gonna miss the vacuum cleaner like noise of the Voith transmission. The diesel motors themselves aren't bothersome to me but the transmission is loud as hell when pulling away. With regards to the camera 'mirrors', i'm sure they're much better for the driver. However, for a cyclist or pedestrian they're annoying. You cannot tell if the driver can see you anymore. Can't tell if they're looking. Can't see if i'm in their field of view. This means that i have to fully rely on the driver to keep me in sight, rather than making sure myself that i'm in view of the mirrors and making eye contact with the driver. The driver can see more, but it's now impossible to tell if they're looking.

Excellent video, keep up the great work young man!

For the noise: You should try to find a first generation Citaro for comparison - after 20 years they've now lost most of their noise cancellation I guess and many start sounding like a roaring elk :)

You made me smile. There's nothing that's more engaging than someone talking about a geeky passion. Everyone has one.

This video is really nice and Electric busses like these are quite cool and electric busses are quite comfortable . This bus is made by VDL. A company originally Dutch which feels great to know that it's from my country. But there is one huge problem with electronic engines and that is the battery. The battery is so bad for the environment to produce that the advantage i less pollution is not relevant anymore. The best thing to do is what they have in the city of Arnhem more in the east part of the Netherlands. The trolleybus. It's an electric bus without a battery. Instead they use power from the cables above their route the same as the tram does so they don't have the battery that is made in an extremely climate unfriendly way. You would think it would be an issue because they can't freely choose their route especially when there is an interruption on or if the route changes. But that really is not much of an issue since the route rarely changes and maintenance to the road is also not happening to often For moments that their is a maintenance going on the busses can be fitted with a small battery to just follow a small part of the rouse without power from the line. that would be suitable for small changes in the route both temporary and permanent changes. The much smaller battery than what electric busses have now would be enough to really make a difference to the climate change

In Florence, Italy, our busses got their contactless ticket machines upgraded to accept credit/debit cards years ago. And then the new regional bus company took over and sent us three decades back in time, now there is no contactless payment at all, just the old paper tickets, app or SMS. They don't even use the public WiFi and the LCD screen the new busses had added years before the takeover! Instead of raising the whole region's busses to Florence's level, they lowered Florence's busses to the rest of the region's level. It's actually infuriating, considering the takeover was also so chaotic because they suddenly stopped following the old timetables and supporting the live bus time info app. Oh well, at least they kept the hybrid busses and their new ones are all hybrid. And I saw in another city they put new e-ink timetable screens rather than paper or LED ones, which will be nice for readability.

In St. Gallen in Switzerland we have Trolley buses that switch to electric everytime they leave the part of the route that doesn't have overhead wires its dope

One time when I was waiting at a bus stop with my friend, the bus rolled in so fast that my friend hadn't even noticed it and the mirror hit him square in the back of the head, pushing him to the ground. All the bus driver did was honk... after it had already happened. So yeah, I know exactly why bus mirrors could be a problem. Love the video by the way! You're super enthusiastic, and your pronunciation of "Amsterdam" is super accurate, albeit very enunciated, haha.

Phenomenal video. Subscribed.

I live in Turin, Italy, we have byd electric busses for some of the lines and they are spectacular, same canera mirrors, very quiet, there is no pantograph for charging, but that doesn't seem to be a big issue, and the drivers go a little crazy when driving, the ammount of speed those busses have is amazing. I only wish they were a bigger part of the fleat, currently there are 500 busses dedicated to operating within the city and nearby cities, and 100 of them are electric, the rest are mostly powered by natural gas, so it's 20% electric.

Instant sub.

Bedankt man, dat was een interessante video 👍🏻 with a lot of information I didn’t know since I don’t travel by bus that frequently in Amsterdam 😂 you study in Amsterdam? Great video!

love your enthusiasm

I have the same vibe as you whenever brand new busses came to my city in mexico, I was so excited everytime I spotted one. Even though they dont stack up at all compared to these, im still proud that my city is investing into better busses to what we have currently.

There is a HUGE drawback to the camera's instead of mirrors that you failed to see....especially in Amsterdam! Mirrors offer two-way vision. Not only can the driver see the cyclist, the cyclist can also see the driver thus the cyclist can confirm the driver spotted him...or not. A camera offers only one-way vision...no eye-contact, no confirmation for the cyclist that the busdriver spots you, no moving out of the situation when you are in a blind spot.

Loved the video and how you went into the details! I'm curious about the other side of these buses as well. I wonder how do they avoid queuing of the buses at a charging docks as it takes a lot of time to change the ginormous bus batteries. How some buses don't go out of service for long because they are not charged for the trip. Thanks for the video!

Interesting video. Not into engineering but love the enthusiasm. Subbed, look forward to your future content!👍🌷

So they also drive in Münster, Germany. I work there. There, for example, line 6 and line 8 run every 20 minutes (both almost the same lines, i.e every 10 minutes) and there the VDL buses and the Mercedes ECitaro run. Super buses 😊

Thank you for posting this report. As an electric train driver and an EV car driver in England I am very pro electric transport. I was on holiday in Holland in March 2023, and used the local buses in Amersfoort with no problem using my bank card. However when I got to Rotterdam to use the trams, I was told at the Tourist office that I must buy a OV Chip card as my bank card wasn't valid. This meant having to pay a deposit on an OV Chip Card which I was only using for one holiday.

Hi from Sydney, Australia. We have a similar check-in/out system on all public transport. It can use a dedicated transport card or any credit or debit card. Cheers!

60 years ago we used to have trolly busses quiet buse on overhead wires but they nearly all disappeared to be replaced by diesel buses

Dutch bus manufacturers Ebusco and VDL are doing good! There are other companies so competition is as strong as with traditional buses, so customers can have great quality and maintain not too high prices. (As for the video, interesting but commentary is sometimes a bit weird)

Thanks the information. Loving the technology! I'm from Jamaica and our local city bus company (owned by the Government) primarily uses VDL buses also most of which are on Volvo Chassis. It would be really nice if they continued the trend on getting Electric buses from VDL or even Volvo knowing we already been using their products. Recently tho, the government been moving towards China for buses. We currently have an Electric Bus from Golden Dragon doing testing and a further 5 will be added within a month. Another 200 electric buses are said to be added next year, just wish it was from VDL or Volvo.

You should visit Eindhoven as they build and experiment with different VDL busses here, since the factory and main offices are in the Eindhoven area. The bus you're talking about has already been in service since like 4 or 5 years now and there are also 2 hydrogen prototype busses. The previous generation still had normal mirrors and could drive itself (guided by magnets built into the road), but they weren't allowed to because according to the law (at the time) you needed 100% dedicated buslanes, which the city hadn't because at several points in the city you have to cross the buslane. This system was therefor never used and they didn't include it in the newer generation. One other thing that "screen" at 8:06 does (at least in Eindhoven) is changing the traffic lights priority so that the bus gets priority. Ambulances and police cars are known to also have this system built-in, it works really well and you're never waiting that long for a green light.

The checkin/checkout with your bank card system is used in London as well, it’s been running for about 8 years now and a huge proportion of people now use their bank cards rather than having to top up an Oyster (London transport) card. These buses do look super cool, I think the charging is a really great idea too!

My city of Poznań has some Solaris electric busses, and also bought some hydrogen ones recently. The comfort is much greater with ev busses than with diesels due to the engine noise and vibrations being eliminated.

Hiya! I noted a few things about your video. 1. The usage of NFC Contactless payments on public transit isn’t something new. TFL have had it for many years now and even the MTA in New York offer it. 2. A purely battery powered bus is better than a diesel hybrid but environmentally not as sustainable as a trolly bus or tram. The battery will reach end of life long before the bus does and every charge means a loss of energy. This coupled with the environmental cost of producing the batteries might even make a battery bus worse than say an HVO fuel bus. 3. The humming sound from the speakers is an EU mandate for all EVs. 4. I agree that the North American buses are generally older than European but it’s not like modern busses don’t exist there. Especially the BTR buses that are starting to get quite common in North and South America.

You mentioned you like to just drive around on busses so i have a recommendation. Just randomly did an amazing bus journey on a route ive never been on last week. Its the 121 line from Wormerveer to Purmerend. Its a very bumpy ride in this minivan-like bus. About half way you start to understand why the bus is so small. It goes right through old "polders" over the tiny dikes that were once used to pump the land dry. These areas feature towns with weird layouts, very stretched out along these dikes, like the town Wormer and its main street, the Dorpsstraat. Its very fun to have such a rural and adventurous busride so close to Amsterdam. Some of the bus stops are even called by individual adresses like Dorpsstraat 137. Never seen that before in The Netherlands. Pretty cool if you live in a house which has its own private busstop, well not private, but you know what I mean.

Love the way you say "Amster-DAM" and "Amster-DAMMER"

As someone that grew up and still lives in the vicinity of Amsterdam this is really normal for me and I always thought this was a standard over the rest of Europe. I know that the USA and Canada aren't that good with buses but that electric buses are something entirely new is something I didn't know. These electric VDL buses have been around some time already, as I can remember I rode them in 2020. Now I have my drivers license so I don't take public transport that often but I do see them more often that 2020. I have my truck driving license and have driven trucks with camera mirrors as well and I can tell you it's amazing!!!. No more changing around your mirrors, the mirrors don't blok as much of your vision and the fear of hitting a sign or traffic light next to the road is way less. With buses you also don't run the risk of hitting a passenger at a stop with your mirror as you come to a halt. (Yes that is something to watch out for as a bus driver I have heard.)

Interesting Channel your channel popped up randomly you shpuls come down london we have Electric buses even hybrids and Diesel buses 😊😂

18:30 that is what usually happens to the windshield when you have an passenger standing in the front of the buss passionately excited.

a big problem with battery electric buses is how much power is lost to the pressurized air system, a problem diesel and trolleybuses don't have. the pressurized air system for the uninitiated is used in the suspension (specifically to lower and raise the bus for accesibility), for braking, door actuation and for diesel buses is also what is used to shift gears, which buses and lorries need a powerfull mechanism because of their straight cut dog mesh gearboxes.

Thank you for putting the arrows in the edit. I couldn't see the pantograph or the massive support column

as for looking better: many electric buses don't have a different appearance than the diesel powered version of the same model range. Also mirror cameras became a thing also on buses from other brands, but also on trucks and cars

The new Electric Buses in Amsterdam is really Amazing and Enjoyable to travel with, fully equipped with HD Camera for proper monitoring and security standard. I really enjoyed traveling with it from Amsterdam Central station to Orangestraat

Only caveat I can think of for the mirror cameras is how unusable the backup cam view is on my personal vehicle whenever it rains and the lens gets wet. Is this somehow addressed?

We have these in Gothenburg. Main thing wrong with them is that they are too quiet and you cannot hear them coming. They are a hazard for pedestrians. Goodness knows what the lifetime environmental impact is.

Hey dude, you should really make a video about Maastricht! So cool!!

I drive a bus north of A'dam, with endpoints at Central, Sloterdijk and Noord... We still have diesels next to electric buses but are set to go full electrical this year. I must say, the buses that load from the top aren't the best choice. There's cable loaders coming up around now, which takes a lot of weight off the roof - important for how it drives, but also for lines of sight. Heavier weight on the roof means more support needed to carry it, always leading to impaired lines of sight. I do like the cam replacing the mirror. A decent bus has decent mirrors that'll do the job, but not every bus is a decent bus. But the cams will give you full vision around the bus - def a boon for safety. And since we'll be getting cable loaders, I'm pretty psyched.

We have Proterra e-buses in Miami now. They're only a portion of our fleet, however. Most of our buses are still CNG.

Funny thing: Traveling with the OV chip card is a lot cheaper than using a debit- or credit card. I get a senior discount for free and pay a yearly fee to travel cheaper outside the rush hour. When paying with a credit card was first introduced many passengers just held their wallet in front of the reader. Often it would see the credit card first and you ended up paying way too much! Nice video.

in verona they are doing some groundworks to indroduce some kink of bus like that, that runs both on battery and overhead lines

Hybrid busses are cool too, since they use the electric motors when on the lowest gears which are the loudest and the engine turns on at higher speeds

Honestly even the diesel bus was pretty quiet. Love NL uts like living in the future

This would be so cool to see in the US!

Aarhus got Solaris and Volvo electric busses, and they are charging the same way too. :-) I am really happy, they have really made the roads quieter and no smell of toxic gasolin/diesel ! Also, we have the card device on all public transport system in the country (Denmark), and even the south of Sweden. On the busses, there are a ticket dispenser, where you can buy all sorts of tickets, so the busdriver don't have to take there focus off the road.

One thing that would bring this to perfection is if the buses didn't have check-in points and simply used “Off-Board” Fare Collection (prepurchase ticket, or a pre-paid/subscription fare card) and only had a small ticket machine available inside the seating area (just in case if you didn't buy a ticket or you do not have a subscription) to minimize the dwell time of the bus at the stop. Yes, it does open more room for fare dodging but with the fear of hefty fines and random checks, it isn't a big problem. We use this method in Prague for all types of transport and it really maximizes the efficiency of the system and together with all-door boarding, it makes sure that the public transport vehicle stops for a minimum amount of time. Just to say, these buses are really cool, but trams are just superior. But if you have to have a bus these and mainly trolly buses are the way to go.

Thank you for that video! One annotation: The old dark red DAF shown at the end is from the late 1960ies-1970ies standard stadsbus design (not 1950ies).

I'm always a fan of getting the windshield clear before heading out into traffic...

In Eindhoven they're now test driving the next-generation version of these buses. (New Generation Citea). Maybe if you pull some strings you can give us a preview. ;)

The buses are actually not new. They are based on the VDL (Dutch brand) Citea buses, which has been in production since 2007. The line has been succesful and sold to all over Europe and outside. Especially within The Netherlands they are extremele common, as it is a domestic product. They also made a second generation line (refresh). They came in various models (low-entry, low-floor, and light low-entry) and various lengths. From around 10 meters, 12 meters (standard), 15 meters double axle, to articualted (18 to 19.5 meters). They also initially released a hybrid variant. From 2013 to 2020 they released various electric bus models of virtually every variant mentioned above. These days there are even more Electric Citeas than diesel Citeas. The electric Citea has truly become the main part of the Citea line-up over the years. Of course, over the years all those elctric models got additional options and upgrades (especially to the battery) to keep up with the times. The Dutch market has been switching to e-buses very agressively the past years. That is why the Netherlands is leading in regard of e-bus adoptation in Europe, with evey new bus registered since 2020 being zero-emission. That gave VDL an early-adaptor domestic market and a good market to push zero emission buses early and gain a lot of early experience. As such, the past years the electric Citea has been extremely dominant on the Dutch bus market. From that they managed to become one of the e-bus leaders within Europe. And it gave room for another e-bus brand to grow inside the Dutch market, namely Ebusco, who has been doing well on the Dutch market as well. Interesting to see that with the switch of going to zero-emission in The Netherlands a way larger portion of the market was supplied by domestic suppliers compared to previously. Interstingly, VDL released their VDL New Generation, so the buses you see here are an older generation already. Due to their success of the electric Citea, they decided to make a completely new Citea as a clean-sheet design, with the lessons learned from all the experience they gathered. Compared to the older Citea, the New Generation would only include electric models and could thus be fully designed around an electric driveline only. Similar to what Ebusco has been doing (who also released a new model, the Ebusco 3.0, recently). The New Generation will also come in different variants and lengths. These days by far most buses being ordered are the VDL New Generation or Ebusco 3.0. For someone that likes to see very modern electric buses and domestic manufacturing again that is great news. But a bit unfortunate that there is less variety. But other bus manufacturs are starting to focus on electric buses as well, so they might become an interesting alternative for Dutch tenders.

Would love to see more of these VDL buses in the city where I lived, instead of this lonely VDL DB300. Also, our city’s first bus with cameras instead of sideview mirrors had entered service recently.

As an European traffic engineer student, these kinds of videos stop me from wanting to travel to North America. How the hell can Americans got amazed by a regular European bus, with a stop request button, on a bus lane, etc.??? 😫

Also die fahren auch in Münster. Ich arbeite dort. Dort fährt z.B. die Linie 6 und Linie 8 in 20 Minuten Takt (beide fast selbe Linien, also 10 Minuten Takt) und dort fahren die VDL Busse und die Mercedes ECitaro. Super Busse 😊

I wonder if these busses can use there pentagraph to connect on to the tram lines above. making them a trolleybus for that section of road. Also it would allow them to charge the bus when they stop for ether a red light or a bus/tram stop. (sure it might be just a minute or 2)

I was walking in busy market place in Navi Mumbai, India. I dint know there was a big electric bus 5feet behind me, and I got to know when it gently honked. I freaked out like one would seeing something giant following you stealthily.

What I find interesting is that they seem to use a variant of the CCS standard for those photograph style charging interfaces.

I ride these busses daily to work... There are some downsides that I have noticed compared to the normal busses they had before. The suspension is a little bit rough on higher speeds. (you can also notice the squeaky noise they make when riding on rough roads) Another thing is that on some of the seats of these busses, the leg room is a bit limited.

The magazine,"Bus World"[US]had articles on that type of charging buses,back in the 1980's,so there is a span of 30 years of

Would be interesting to know how many hours of charging it takes for each hour of operation

AYE must need the viewership it deserves to complement your excellent quality of content. I am no. 389 and wish this channel to grab at least a million subscribers this year because you deserve it.

Honestly I have no idea what is superior over trolley buses in Eastern Europe, other then asthetic reasons. The cables are quite ok with even old city archictecture. Why is there an emphasis on total EV instead having pantographs continously taking electricity with small backup batteries over points with no wires?

10:25 In my experience the lines on backup cameras and the like are almost always fixed in place (only adjusted during installation). 12:20 I think mirrors like that are generally designed to fold in if they get hit. So I am dubious that it is a huge problem. The one on the passenger side is raised in the air to avoid hitting people.

What does the passenger cabin of the bus look like? I’d love to see what that looks like considering how the rest of the bus looks.

In Indian busses things like inside camera for monitoring, screen for route options and reverse cameras were present from years before.

Nice video about EV buses. I'm also engineer but in logistics and before i was cdl driver for eleven years. VDL Citea is very good product over all. I drove for bus company that was based here in Finland region of Tampere. The three units on the fleet of ours were exptional for us because we been used to Volvo 8700, 8900, Scania L94 and L95 chassis with Lahti Scala bodywork Rest fleet had some 70 units the others. All were Diesels. Citeas needed some special or diffirent attitude from drivers because diffirent ideology behind build of vehicle. I was actually those few that preferred citeas over others. For Nordic wheather (cold, misty, snowy) VDL's survived just like the Scanias and Volvos, offcourse all had auxial Fuel powered heaters to provide the needed extra warmth. Tyres makes all diffirence in operating in winter time and we had totally diffirent for summer season than in winter season. You are having a nice ethusiasim or geniuin intrest going on. Video was nicely devided. Not too much inside industry information about subject but some 😉

Some country in world has Busway 🚍 as side lane like Tramway 🚋 Electric Bus and Trolleybus 🚎 on System and than you get BRT Bus and LRT Light Rail 🚈 Transit/Tram in middle lane of road.

I have been traveling with electric buses repeatedly from Venlo (Netherlands) to Nettetal-Kaldenkirchen (Germany), which is the City-Busline No. 1 from the Arriva Transport Company in Venlo. And I didn't have to pay any fares since the Venlo City Buses are included in my German Ticket subscription (which is a flat rate). The electric buses have been introduced by Arriva I think in 2016 and they use standard mirrors. Since Venlo is a small city, the buses are smaller than in Amsterdam, too, and they use the same charging system as in your video. And since they don't have that many lines, each line does have its own space with the charging device. They've charging slots at each endpoint of the line which are used after every ride. So for Line nr. 1 one charging point is at Venlo station and the other one is in Kaldenkirchen in the parking area of the public bath.

We have electro buses too in our town that has like 10000 people

If the busses are on the tramway for parts of the journey, would there be an advantage in having them ride as trolley busses and pick up electricity from the wire above?

New Zealand since 2 years ago has been running double deckers on a similar system.

About the camera mirrors the repair cost would exceed the cost to repair a conventional mirror. We already have cameras in the back of the bus that are protected by a sort of shield. And they are really inconsistent. After a while they get blurry or glitches in the camera lens. The differences is that a camera behind the buss is not essential for operating the buss but the side mirrors are. Time to repair is also important. If it’s a big bus depot that already have qualified personal to do these kinds of repairs it may be beneficial to have the cameras and conventional mirrors as a backup. Then the bus has a fallback if the camera mirrors fail. In my opinion the camera mirrors are good for the driver but can’t yet replace conventional mirrors. They should work in tandem together strengthening each other’s weaknesses.

Narrator reminds me of Dylan. Too cheery. Almost giggling.

We use chip card readers in my state in Australia too, we dont have a national system, probably not an issue for us as the country is so large. Our chip readers all take tap on/tap off payments in the same style as those in the Netherlands but they also accept credit and debit cards so you dont need a transport card.

In Norway, Oslo, we despise our VDL electric buses. They are so unfriendly towards passengers, with limited legroom, abysmal seat quality, and poor indoor lighting design. Hence, the excitement was immense when we received the Solaris Urbino Electric 18.75 as a replacement earlier this April. I hope you can come to Oslo and see them for yourself - they have everything that VDL lacks. Great lighting, ample legroom, and beautiful design! The buses of the future.