More Boris Bus fun

Long overdue post.   Lots of things getting in the way like work…

Anyway… went up to London recently and yet again took a ride on one of the ‘New Routemaster’ buses.   If you remember there was a well publicised hoo-har over the summer of 2015 about the hybrid systems on the Boris buses failing.   Well… seems they are still dead and rather than fix it they have worked around it.

When the battery issue first arose they ran the main engine as a constant speed generator.   The result being a rather unhappy and miss firing engine.

It appears that they have made some change to the bus as now the engine speed varies with road speed.   Hmmm….   So still no hybrid.   I didn’t think there was any link between the engine and the road wheels.   The software people must have worked overtime on this!

No word in the media that I can find.   Rather disappointing that they’ve not fixed the batteries.   Ho hum…