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Here's an article that mentions the fitting of the diesel heaters: https://www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/slik-skal-ruter-og-unibuss-unnga-nytt-busskaos-i-vinter-1.17036833
Now technically they could heat them to a comfortable temperature with only the resistive heating, but they would not have the battery capacity to get through the minimum required range to serve their routes.
The stuff about the diesel heaters exceeding the consumption of the previous busses seems to be based on preliminary data from the specs of the heaters, and not actual real life data as they didn't have time to fit the heaters before the previous winter hit. And the only stuff I can find about it is pay walled. I will add an edit to my original comment for this.
Even “if” this is true. This will only be needed during the coldest of winter months. So for the rest of the year they will be far more efficient.
This sounds like FUD.
Plus a bus should not use resistive heating but instead have a heat pump. If it doesnt have a heat pump then that is a bad purchase.
The busses they replaced were plug-in hybrid busses that mostly ran on battery power already, they were already super efficient.
They did indeed fuck up and not buy them with heat pumps. They were going to retrofit heatpumps but it turned out to be too expensive so they went with diesel heaters.
They literally did not include any sort of minimum requirements for heating in the bidding process. It was a huge fuck up that has been covered lots in the media here.