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nick_h.
Was talking to a guy who runs a bus company here. He said that the problem with electric buses is outside cities they're pretty complex to run (and not that straightforward in cities for that matter). He's replacing his diesel buses but for each of those he needs 2 or 3 electric buses as the recharge time is "not trivial" even compared to cars and if you're out in the sticks, you need get back to a proper charging location (not the local public charging point like cars). He said that hydrogen fuel cells are better but the buses are 2-3 times as much to buy (think he said over 1M euros but I might be misremembering).
Even charging infrastructure for cars and motos in a Grand Tour will be problematic, let alone that for buses.