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Surur t1_j67t34l wrote

Reply to comment by gurgelblaster in Kenya’s Producing Its First Electric Buses — 1,000 Buses Over 3 Years by Peugeot905

That's not going to work in most places in Africa as it would mean a lot of investment in infrastructure by the government and also high ongoing maintenance costs.

This solution uses the same roads as everyone else and is much easier to roll-out, and does not require a massive upfront investment to be useful.

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gurgelblaster t1_j67t9iw wrote

Roads, famously, are not infrastructure and require no maintenance.

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Surur t1_j67v8fe wrote

Imagine a road with a pothole vs a train track with eroded ballast lol.

Or a road with a pothole vs the copper being stolen from an overhead line lol.

One does seem bit more resilent than the other hahaha.

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gurgelblaster t1_j682x7l wrote

I agree that building and maintaining infrastructure is harder in a country that has been (and is still being) continually looted by (primarily western) capital for the last century or so.

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