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I'm tired of the way things are and am actually excited for BYD. They build really great electric vehicles and I saw one video where it charged up just as fact as refueling gasoline would be

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[-] Nils@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

I hope they bring their electric buses too.

[-] Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Don't we have a pretty good electric bus factory in Manitoba? I thought New Flyer is doing good cause most new bus here are electric.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

The (small number of) TTC electric buses are BYD. They got built in Newmarket but I think the production stopped due to some issues. A larger scale attempt might be needed. :D That said, we might want to try that with sodium-ion batteries.

[-] Nils@lemmy.ca 4 points 21 hours ago

That is cool! I heard when they did the procurement a while ago, but I did not know what happened after. It is great to know that they were made here.

I think once we have plenty of buses (and other EVs) around, the battery recycling will catch up. Just like it happened with the lead-acid.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 21 hours ago

the battery recycling will catch up.

For sure. That said, for applications where applicable, sodium-ion kinda makes recycling moot. There's "unlimited" supply of the input materials. CATL and some smaller factories just started production and it's already cheaper than LFP. I haven't checked if buses are suitable application but I think they should be.

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