Battery Powered Buses * China - Olympics to use 50 Li-ion
About 50 buses powered by Li-ion battery will be put into ervice for the Beijing Olympics next year...Beijing,China -Xinhua -30 July 2007: -- ... running a total distance of 10.4 kilometers for athletes and officials, according to a Beijing official... The buses will be used in three loop lines in the Olympic village, the northern area of arena and the press village... On request of the organizing committee of the Beijing Olympics which was committed to a green Olympics, vehicles using electric power are needed during the games... All the 50 buses are solely powered by a kind of Li-ion battery which is different from various of existing hybrid electric vehicles, according to Sun Fengchun, an electric car expert with Beijing Institute of Technology... (Photo by The Energy Blog: lithium-ion batteries to hybrid trucks and buses)
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