Billy Hann

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Okay.

That's not including our hybrids.

We've about another 20% of our fleet, which is hybrids as well.

The reason we're doing it, as I said, is to try and make our city a cleaner, greener, quieter place.

The reaction from our drivers is being fantastic.

Reaction from our customers is fantastic.

However, it is new technology and new technology brings its challenges and brings its issues.

So when it comes to reliability of the charging systems and the buses themselves, we are having issues around that.

So we need to adopt them at a rate that it's not impacting the service to the customer on the street.

What are the sort of issues that are coming up?

The range isn't necessarily a massive issue, although it will bring complexity to our operation.

The range of the bus is around 220 kilometres, right?

Now, that's not ideal for all our routes.

About 60% of our routes could do a 220 range for the day, right?

So that would get you through all your routes for the day.

However, there's about 40% of it that that's not suitable for.

And we haven't implemented them on those routes yet.

But when we do, we'll end up in a situation where we have to bring buses back for charge and take another one out that's already charged.

So that goes back to the complexity issue I was talking about earlier.

But the reality is, you know, some of the issues we're having, they're largely technical.

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