Here in Sweden we have some battery-buss that can travel 60 minutes on a 5 minute charge. It just stops at the end station for five minutes and then runs it's round again. Still on testing stage. Very comfortable and quiet, tried it last time I took the bus :-)
That's extremely nicely packaged tech. Thanks for posting this. Electrical buses have been around just about forever but this is by far the nicest integrated whole that I've seen.
When you ride the bus you get a nice lecture in english and swedish by the busdriver that functions like an adverticement pillar for the company. The bus goes to/from the airport and passes by the university so I guess they know what customers they have :-)
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Here in Sweden we have some battery-buss that can travel 60 minutes on a 5 minute charge. It just stops at the end station for five minutes and then runs it's round again. Still on testing stage. Very comfortable and quiet, tried it last time I took the bus :-)
http://hybricon.se/word/projects/buses/
That's extremely nicely packaged tech. Thanks for posting this. Electrical buses have been around just about forever but this is by far the nicest integrated whole that I've seen.
Glad you liked it!
When you ride the bus you get a nice lecture in english and swedish by the busdriver that functions like an adverticement pillar for the company. The bus goes to/from the airport and passes by the university so I guess they know what customers they have :-)
Interesting especially the way the use the pantograph to do the charging well away from the passengers.