There's also the centralization advantage and long lifespan. Centralized power generation is nearly always most efficient, and EV batteries degrade relatively quickly, while there are real life examples of 30 year old trolleybuses still operating fine.

[–] dustojnikhummer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those 30 year old trolleybuses die when power dies, but even semi modern ones (aka 15-10 year olds) can still have diesel backup. New ones always have battery backup.

[–] mlekar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's true but still those batteries are significantly smaller than those of BEV buses - usually trolleybuses with batteries have 5-15km of range compared to 200-350 km of equivalent BEV buses which also means that the trolleybuses are significantly lighter than BEV buses, which helps with efficiency of electricity utilisation. Another efficiency factor is that not having to charge and deplete a huge battery will save quite significant ammnount of power that is lost as heat during battery operation.

[–] dustojnikhummer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

batteries are significantly smaller than those of BEV buses

And that is an advantage. Lower cost and lower weight.

[–] mlekar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No argument here. We need more trolleybuses.