Interesting although something's leading me to believe that those destination displays serve as nothing more than place holders but the small fact that it does list all the Major towns in the Hunter Region is another thing; I'll speculate who it could possibly go too if those displays actually do allude to something;LB608 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 3:59 pm There is a new Electric sitting on a wharf in Auckland, is painted NSW Blue & White,stickered in yellow A new electric bus for?
On the Desto is Cessnock,Maitland,Nelson Bay,Newcastle,Scone.
The Security Guard on the wharf has been playing with the desto and flatten the battery,so it will now Port Kembla,as there is a charging Point,on the wharf,or just off the wharf,instead of Sydney or Newcastle
Cessnock & Maitland, only two operators around here have routes running through Cessnock and Maitland, Rover & Hunter Valley Buses, I think Comfort Del Gro is already set with Volvo BZL's at some stage so I don't believe they'll pick up any (Not even sure if Thornton Depot has E-Chargers yet) Rover is small ish company and hasn't publicly made any announcements to their movement of electric buses nor am I aware of them demoing one yet, more than likely to go to them compared to HVB.
Nelson Bay, well that'll be Port Stephens Coaches, I'd imagine their already well equipped with electric chargers given I have seen them previously demonstrate a Yutong E12 early last year and they've got their Hybrids. I'd hope the range on this bus would be well up for doing 130's to Nelson Bay & Newcastle.
Newcastle - Unlikely to be Newcastle Transport as they've already settled on Bustechs ZDI's for the time being.
Scone ??? Whoever the small town operator is up in Scone I suppose but that's way outside the TNSW Footprint so wouldn't exactly need to be in TNSW Livery in the first place.
As always, I'm curious what this leads too and given you mentioned it was last sitting on a Wharf, export to here can't be too far off the table.