Uploaded September 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
About the two SRM type buses which were built to demonstrate the Volvo OppCharge overhead pantograph opportunity charging system in London but (because of a change of Mayor of London) now travel as ordinary diesel-hybrid buses.
This film includes footage from the launch of these buses, opportunity charging in use in the English towns of Wolverton and Harrogate plus these buses in London on bus route No.37 - both from the street and riding one of them. The bus has a very distinctive sound...
The benefit of opportunity charging is that the bus can travel for much or even all of the time as a battery-electric bus, thereby helping to lower urban air pollution.
The SRM type of bus is a two-door single staircase version of the New Bus For London / New Routemaster buses introduced by Boris Johnson whilst he was Mayor of London.
About the two SRM type buses which were built to demonstrate the Volvo OppCharge overhead pantograph opportunity charging system in London but (because of a change of Mayor of London) now travel as ordinary diesel-hybrid buses.
This film includes footage from the launch of these buses, opportunity charging in use in the English towns of Wolverton and Harrogate plus these buses in London on bus route No.37 - both from the street and riding one of them. The bus has a very distinctive sound...
The benefit of opportunity charging is that the bus can travel for much or even all of the time as a battery-electric bus, thereby helping to lower urban air pollution.
The SRM type of bus is a two-door single staircase version of the New Bus For London / New Routemaster buses introduced by Boris Johnson whilst he was Mayor of London.
