Grid-connected Electric Buses Could Displace Diesels

Re:Grid-connected Electric Buses Could Displace Diesels by walshemj on Saturday May 31, 2014 @04:40PM (#7827194)

You know I thought you where supposed to write about one thing at a time.

This article is about two separate and almost totally unconnected things.

1 using hybrid vehicles as load balancers for grid (highly inefficient BTW) 2 replacing diesel busses with electric vehicles.

BTW a grid connected bus is called a trolleybus.

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Re:Grid-connected Electric Buses Could Displace Diesels by Moru on Saturday May 31, 2014 @05:05PM (#7827282)

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/

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Re:Grid-connected Electric Buses Could Displace Diesels by jacquesm on Saturday May 31, 2014 @05:23PM (#7827317)

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.

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Re:Grid-connected Electric Buses Could Displace Diesels by Moru on Saturday May 31, 2014 @05:40PM (#7827364)

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 :-)

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Re:Grid-connected Electric Buses Could Displace Diesels by walshemj on Saturday May 31, 2014 @05:48PM (#7827386)

Interesting especially the way the use the pantograph to do the charging well away from the passengers.

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