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Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr
The only electric buses I have ever seen were of some flatnose design and had most of the powertronics set at the position a rear engine would be, enabling a low floor through most of the interior lenght in order to improve accessibility to wheelchair users for instance. So it becomes harder to rely on a battery box as a structural member.
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Maybe so, but there's enough buses in the world to justify a purpose-built EV design rather than shoehorning in some electrical in place of ICE componentry. That's just 1 example too, and there's plenty of other machines just begging to be electrified and purpose-built, like garbage trucks... and letter carrier vehicles, back to the purpose of this thread.