Re:Why U.S. Cities Aren’t Using More Electric Buses
by hanniabu on Thursday June 27, 2019 @04:11PM
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Yes, this seems like the ideal solution. A bus is big enough to where you can easily engineer a quick attach/detach "cartridge". Since it's all operated by the city (or private entity), you also don't have the issue you would with consumers where you need to worry about users turning in damaged batteries for good ones.
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Re:Why U.S. Cities Aren’t Using More Electric Buses
by rhinoceraptor on Thursday June 27, 2019 @05:29PM
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The battery will still be ridiculously heavy and very large, well outside the limits of human ability to move it. So you need some sort of machinery to do it, as well as a human operator.
Also, keep in mind you don't just need very robust electrical quick-connects, you also need fluid quick-connects for the heating/cooling. As well as a system to bleed air from the loops inside the bus.