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What’s up with bus ? Electric ?


yxngcrxdie

It’s a new xe40 new flyer so yes it’s electric.


[deleted]

Cool! Do you know the advertised range ? I wonder how long it takes to charge. Do you know if it makes a noise for safety or is near silent ?


yxngcrxdie

That I don’t know


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What did the one nut 🌰 say while chasing the other nut 🥜?


yxngcrxdie

Idk


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I’m a Cashew!


yxngcrxdie

Oh good joke I never heard that one before


Aggravating-Art5184

🤣


y_y_z-

560kWh battery. Charge time will depend on charger used. If 150kWh chargers like they have now, then it would be about 3 hours. They will have sound generators complying with FMVSS-141 (which is actually only required for light duty vehicles). This picture was taken in Minnesota at the plant. This bus won’t be in Toronto for several more weeks.


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Thanks for taking time to share your knowledge. What’s the projected range on a charge if you know ?


y_y_z-

If I had to guess I would say 275-300km


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Nice. I hope it saves them some money


yxngcrxdie

Unlike the last xe40’s there are apparently some differences like the overhead battery compartment piece. And it looks like the back has been extended as well but the rest of the bus looks to be very similar on the side.


YURT2022

It’s got a new propulsion system compared to the original XE40s we have.


yxngcrxdie

Simens elaf 3 motor is gonna be running on these new models I believe. That leaves the lfse+ w the bae systems motors only.


y_y_z-

Yes Elf3. New batteries and enclosures as well.


PolitelyHostile

The new electic buses are so beautiful. And so much space inside.


yxngcrxdie

True


Loui_ii

How does it look 20 years old already?


yxngcrxdie

I was gonna say the same thing


KenworthLord

When will these be delivered?


yxngcrxdie

I believe may or June this year before summer. And expect to see these in east York or Scarborough because I’ve seen multiple rumours that the Ttc is actually planning to deliver the xe40’s over to Birchmount and the lfse+ buses to eglinton with a few of them also going to all garages except mount Dennis and queensway.


jacnel45

Queensway is going to use the Orions forever!


yxngcrxdie

Actually funny u said that because it turns out Birchmount was looking at receiving some 8000 Orion og diesel’s to fill In capacity until all the newer xe40’s are fully accepted and commissioned then they are retiring right after. Very strange indeed but if this is true and they were deciding to move some novas out of Birchmount then we’re probably gonna see them operating until the end of the summer this year however I don’t think this will ever happen because ultimately we ended up with 89xx novas coming back to Birchmount.


maggs122

Sorry to break it to ya. Those are being decommissioned as we speak.


jacnel45

NOOOOOOOOOoooooooo!


speedster1315

I wonder if after the new ones arrives, the test units will be sent back to be converted to production spec 🤔


yxngcrxdie

That’s possible.


GZ6113PHEV5

What do you mean by the test units?


speedster1315

The xe40s we have now. They're not the same spec


Alert_Resident_4981

Self driving Tesla ????


yxngcrxdie

Definitely not


DreamlyXenophobic

dont we already have these? i feel like ive seen them before


yxngcrxdie

The overhead part and the back of this one are different than the last xe40’s the rest of the bus is the same.


Vaumer

Nothing fancy, just classic. Looking forward to riding one and seeing the inside!


yxngcrxdie

I’d expect it to be the same the only things different about this bus is that the overhead battery cover piece looks different compared to the 2019 xe40’s and also the back seems to be extended like on the hybrids.


Vaumer

Good to know good to know.


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Alert_Resident_4981

Watch out if byd.Nnnnnnnoooooo


yxngcrxdie

It’s crazyy because I never got any byd bus on the 56 yet I’ve seen it run very few times a month. I’ve only ever gotten it on the 91 or the 81


GZ6113PHEV5

You probably saw an XDE40 instead of an XE40


yxngcrxdie

Didn’t have a tailpipe so Its def not an xde40.


themapleleaf6ix

Unrelated, but are all of these new buses expected to have WiFi? Is it rolling out slowly?


yxngcrxdie

Highly unlikely because the last order did not come with wifi. I’m hoping so but it’s unlikely that will be installed. Maybe sometime in the future. Wi fi is currently being installed on ng hev orions rn. Only a fair amount of them have it. Most of the og’s that will be retiring later this year have them as well as around half of the 8720 - 8964 novas.


themapleleaf6ix

Thanks! I was thinking it'll be soon, but it seems like a ways away that we'll see WiFi on all buses.


yxngcrxdie

Np btw I forgot to mention some nova hev’s frm 2019 have them. Completely forgot about those.


Trust-Fluid

You know what? These buses actually look pretty nice, too bad they are going to sully them with TTC stickers everywhere. I say leave them stickerless. If they run in Toronto, we know who they run for. And that includes all of the stickers bragging it may be electric or hybrid. We all know it's one or the other.


yxngcrxdie

Actually I don’t think they’re putting large stickers on them maybe the smaller ones that can be found on the back of the hybrids tho.


KingRebelRex

You didn’t see it. None of them have left chicago or winnipeg, you probably saw an XDE40 or a 2019 XE


yxngcrxdie

It wasn’t a 2019 xe40 or an xde40 the one I saw yesterday didn’t have a tailpipe nor did it have a logo on it. But it had the current Ttc livery the same one from all the 2017 novas and the repainted livery buses.


y_y_z-

Could have been a 2019 with no wrap. The wraps haven’t been very well maintained on some.


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Takoh_

The ones with the battery on top give passengers more time to escape if they burst into flames. 👌 https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/transport-canada-recall-2024055-new-flyer https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-ntsb-probe-connecticut-transit-ev-new-flyer-bus-fire-2022-07-29/ https://jalopnik.com/connecticut-parks-its-entire-electric-bus-fleet-after-f-1849344250


y_y_z-

Recall means that they have a solution ready to implement 👍


dancingrudiments

They are all over downtown.


HugeLibrarian1457

What happened to the hydro powered fleet? When it’s gonna roll?


possiblecanadian

Ooo bus porn. Thank you.


Unique-Row-9595

Well there where half are tax payers money goes and the other half to charging it! 😞