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Potatoswatter t1_j5jrnqo wrote

Rainwater is Kryptonite to British made vehicles. This problem isn’t new with battery power.

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HJSDGCE t1_j5nklw5 wrote

British people live in constant rain, yet never think of making things rain-proof.

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realise2056 t1_j5k0uay wrote

The one day it rains in York they decide to collect the bins.

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fire_crotch_mafia t1_j5jwhq8 wrote

Lol now the garbage truck itself is trash. Who picks that up?

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randomFrenchDeadbeat t1_j5k598y wrote

For once the title is rather tame... since it did not just happen only one time:

>Rain caused the wagons to be taken off the city's roads for up to 26 days a month several times last year.
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>The [2] vehicles stopped working for a combined total of 481 days between January 2021 and November 2022.
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>Data from a freedom of information (FOI) request showed there was just one month - November 2021 - when both vehicles were on the road every day.

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