Ember Coaches and the Megabus/Stagecoach "Kodak" Moment.

[J MacDonald]

I'm no expert on this but I've seen more and more Ember Coaches on the road over the last while and looked them up. They seem to have managed to get a decent amount of funding from the Scottish Government under the ULEBS scheme but so have the existing intercity operators ie. Stagecoach. Would a huge operation like Stagecoach have a "Kodak" moment and not foresee and plan for a transition towards electric/hydrogen?

 

[GusB]

I'm no expert on this but I've seen more and more Ember Coaches on the road over the last while and looked them up. They seem to have managed to get a decent amount of funding from the Scottish Government under the ULEBS scheme but so have the existing intercity operators ie. Stagecoach. Would a huge operation like Stagecoach have a "Kodak" moment and not foresee and plan for a transition towards electric/hydrogen?

Welcome to the forum!

We do have an existing thread about Ember, which you will find here:

Ember: Electric coach service

Does anyone know anything further about the planned electric coach service between Dundee and Edinburgh? Bus & Coach Buyer reported on it a couple of weeks back but it's the only report I can find on it, the internet is bringing up a dead search. Planned to start in April 2020 with a Yutong...

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Stagecoach does have electric vehicles in operation in various places and there are existing threads for most of their operating companies. The forum Search feature will help with finding these.

I'll close this thread in the meantime so as to avoid duplicate discussions.