Chinese make electric bus in Lancaster....

[asaratis]

...California!

This thing has got to be HEAVY!




BYD Develops Battery For Articulated Electric Vehicle Industry content from Power Electronics

China-based BYD Motors, which manufactures rechargeable batteries, showed at the recent 2014 American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Expo in Houston it could play a major role in environmentally-friendly transit vehicles. The company unveiled America’s first electric articulated bus, fittingly named “The Lancaster” after the city in California where it was designed and manufactured (see figure).

 

[HenryBHough]

The world NEEDED a coal fired bus!

 

[Pogo]

Already running in Holland...

>> The vehicles were awarded last June 2012 in Europe’s first publically tendered order for electric-powered full size buses and are planned to provide visitors and residents with an environmentally-friendly public transport system for the next 15 years. BYD’s unique Electric Bus model is a full-size, 12-meter (40 foot) transit bus powered entirely by the company’s advanced Iron Phosphate batteries. The BYD buses are comparable to the buses now servicing Schiermonnikoog in terms of size and can accommodate 60-70 passengers. However, the BYD electric bus can be charged at night and with a range of over 250 Km per charge ( >155 miles ), they can provide service all day without needing another charge. <<

BYD Bus / WIki

Another Dutch company has been making buses with "in-wheel technology" (i.e. driven by electric motors inside the wheel hubs) for several years -- and selling them to China. The prototype I read about several years ago has a small diesel engine on the roof, used only to generate recharge power.

 

[Old Rocks]

The world NEEDED a coal fired bus!

And what makes you think that only electricity created by a coal fired generator would work in that bus? Are you really that stupid?

 

[Old Rocks]

Already running in Holland...

>> The vehicles were awarded last June 2012 in Europe’s first publically tendered order for electric-powered full size buses and are planned to provide visitors and residents with an environmentally-friendly public transport system for the next 15 years. BYD’s unique Electric Bus model is a full-size, 12-meter (40 foot) transit bus powered entirely by the company’s advanced Iron Phosphate batteries. The BYD buses are comparable to the buses now servicing Schiermonnikoog in terms of size and can accommodate 60-70 passengers. However, the BYD electric bus can be charged at night and with a range of over 250 Km per charge ( >155 miles ), they can provide service all day without needing another charge. <<

BYD Bus / WIki

Another Dutch company has been making buses with "in-wheel technology" (i.e. driven by electric motors inside the wheel hubs) for several years -- and selling them to China. The prototype I read about several years ago has a small diesel engine on the roof, used only to generate recharge power.

From 2006. All we need are inexpensive batteries, we have all of the rest of the package to build any kind of EV we want.

Electric Mini 0-60 in 4 Seconds It Has Motors In Its Wheels TreeHugger

A British engineering firm has put together a high-performance hybrid version of BMW's Mini Cooper. The PML Mini QED has a top speed of 150 mph, a 0-60 mph time of 4.5 seconds. The car uses a small gasoline engine with four 160 horsepower electric motors — one on each wheel. The car has been designed to run for four hours of combined urban/extra urban driving, powered only by a battery and bank of ultra capacitors. The QED supports an all-electric range of 200-250 miles and has a total range of about 932 miles (1,500 km). For longer journeys at higher speeds, a small conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) is used to re-charge the battery. In this hybrid mode, fuel economies of up to 80mpg can be achieved.
Explains Martin Boughtwood, PML's MD: "Until now, most electric vehicles have been little more than souped-up milk floats, limited by range and speed, with compromised performance. For those with a green conscience who also value an enhanced motoring experience, there is still something missing.

"Working in partnership with our customer, Synergy Innovations, we set out to demonstrate what our electric wheel technology is capable of. We simply took a standard BMW Mini One, discarded the engine, the disc brakes, the wheels, and the gearbox. These components were replaced by four of our electric wheels, a lithium polymer battery, a large ultra capacitor, a very small ICE with generator (so small it almost fits alongside the spare wheel), an energy management system and a sexy in-car display module."

The benefits of PML in-wheel drive technology are;

* It is adaptable to other vehicle chassis
* It eliminates the need for gearing and mechanical drive train
* It allows more space inside the car

The vehicle has three driver-selectable modes of operation:

* Eco mode for town/city frequent start-stop driving;
* Normal mode for daily commuting and ICE- equivalent operation, and
* Sport mode for super car performance.

Other notable features include:

* No (mechanical) brakes means returned energy!

All braking is performed by the wheel motors acting as very efficient electrical generators which return almost all of the energy back to the battery system. The beauty of this dual-circuit, ultra safe system is that your green conscience can be quite content even when accelerating hard, since you are assured of collecting most of the expended energy when it is time to slow down rapidly.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Buses don't hit enough people already? Now they'll be silent and stealthy too? Eek! It's a Magic Bus!