100% Electric bus been used at Crowne Plaza Dublin

Raoul

Is this bus meant to be in use at the moment. Saw the old bus being used two different times today.

sonyvision

I thought the bus would be used every day, but an old ICE was used this week on two different days.

There is the charging point which the bus was plugged into.

Will be keeping an eye out this week to see if the electric or ICE bus is used.

yer man!

They have these in most cities in the Netherlands. Really lovely to be in. Super quiet and much less rattly than a diesel bus. They do creep up on you though when you're cycling as they're so quiet. Makes a huge difference to the city centres however, when there's no cars and just these buses, the place is very pleasant.

tom1ie

unkel wrote: »

Gotta agree with Joseph here. It was the first thing I spotted. It's not just a typo. It says a lot about the ESB as an organisation. And it's not good.

Does it really?
So because someone left out a "h" the ESB as an organisation is being called into question by you.
There are 7000 employees working in the ESB so therefore all those employees need to be called into question?
Are you enjoying your uninterrupted power supply provided by the company your calling into question?
Jesus wept the sense of outrage from you is a bit much!

Bruthal

Joseph SEE wrote: »

Sorry, but that's not good enough. It's an official press release and we're talking about an organisation with over 7,000 employees that specialises in electricity. That is amateurish.

Don`t complain to posters here. Get onto them, before the universe implodes.

Bruthal

unkel wrote: »

Gotta agree with Joseph here. It was the first thing I spotted. It's not just a typo. It says a lot about the ESB as an organisation. And it's not good.

Yes, blackouts galore, so bad is the organisation:D

unkel

Bruthal wrote: »

Yes, blackouts galore

Yes indeed. Every time there is a minor storm, thousands of houses are left without power. This doesn't happen in most other rich first world countries that have half decent infrastructure (and of course all cabling underground). After each storm, thousands of man hours are wasted fixing these connections. These should be better invested in improving the infrastructure so there will be no more power cuts.

It's unfortunate that most people here (like yourself) have low standards and think the current status quo is "grand"

nthclare

This post Reminds me of the first bus to leave the factory in Shannon way back in the day, lol it broke down near Bunratty Castle, I know a few guys who worked in that factory.
They're still getting slagged about it.

Bon voyage

Bruthal

unkel wrote: »

Yes indeed. Every time there is a minor storm, thousands of houses are left without power. This doesn't happen in most other rich first world countries that have half decent infrastructure (and of course all cabling underground). After each storm, thousands of man hours are wasted fixing these connections. These should be better invested in improving the infrastructure so there will be no more power cuts.

It's unfortunate that most people here (like yourself) have low standards and think the current status quo is "grand"

Must be hard going for you having to put up with so many power cuts alright.

unkel

Bruthal wrote: »

Must be hard going for you having to put up with so many power cuts alright.

Not where I am, all power lines here are under ground. We very rarely have a power cut. Unlike the hundreds of thousands of people in this country that do get them (because of the poor infrastructure where they are)

JohnC.

Other countries do get power cuts with storms. Sometimes ESB crews even travel to help them restore it.

Bruthal

unkel wrote: »

Not where I am, all power lines here are under ground. We very rarely have a power cut. Unlike the hundreds of thousands of people in this country that do get them (because of the poor infrastructure where they are)

So what steps will you now take to improve this low standard?

Bruthal

JohnC. wrote: »

Other countries do get power cuts with storms. Sometimes ESB crews even travel to help them restore it.

They wont get them over anymore when they see this missing h

ted1

unkel wrote: »

Not where I am, all power lines here are under ground. We very rarely have a power cut. Unlike the hundreds of thousands of people in this country that do get them (because of the poor infrastructure where they are)

Bollox.

we’ve a low population density with lots of one of houses.

The cost to put cables underground to supply rural customers is prohibitive. We’ve a very stable grid in comparison to other countries.

Our grid is extremely stable and developed that many countries look to Ireland as an example

KCross

ted1 wrote: »

The cost to put cables underground to supply rural customers is prohibitive.

Unkel wont mind when the cost of his electricity goes up to put all our cables underground. Sure its only 10s of billions... it'll be grand!

tom1ie

unkel wrote: »

Yes indeed. Every time there is a minor storm, thousands of houses are left without power. This doesn't happen in most other rich first world countries that have half decent infrastructure (and of course all cabling underground). After each storm, thousands of man hours are wasted fixing these connections. These should be better invested in improving the infrastructure so there will be no more power cuts.

It's unfortunate that most people here (like yourself) have low standards and think the current status quo is "grand"

? Wow! You obviously have no idea of technical restrictions in putting cabling underground regarding capacitance issues, let alone when you get a fault on a cable it takes alot longer to locate and fix faults.
Every country in the world has electrical faults on the grid it's the nature of the beast.
We have one of the best and most guaranteed supplies of electricity in the world.
This is a large part of the reason you see so many servers and major international company's setting up in Ireland.

Sorry your post is completely ignorant.

sonyvision

Both Bus and Charging point here.

Seen the bus plugged in from the front under the windscreen charging.

Admin, can these be attached to the first post?