In brief: Worldwide montly news & informations about Buses, Busmakers, Passengers' and the Transport Industry
12.10.10
BUSMAKERS' NEWS * Spain - Opbrid Shows Overhead Fast-Charging System for Electric Buses
Goodbye Diesel Fumes?
(Video from YouTube, by sylvanascent -26 Sept 2010: The Opbrid fast charge station makes it possible to charge buses fitted with fast charging Lithium batteries in a matter of 5-7 minutes. Enough charge to go to the other end of the route and charge again. Electric buses without overhead lines are now easily possible)
Granada, Spain-Tree Hugger (Ottawa,ONT,CAN), by Michael Graham Richard -7 Oct 2010: -- Opbrid, a company based in Spain, has just unveiled itsBůsbaar charging system for electric buses.It leverages technologies developed by the European rail industry and a special type of Lithium Titanate (nLTO) battery that allows rapid charge capability and a very large number of deep discharge cycles.This system would allow electric buses to have smaller batteries (thus less expensive) that are recharged more often; 5-6 minutes at each end of a bus route would be enough to allow an EV bus to operate all day...
While for now these types of bus would be limited to relatively short routes of 10-15 km (more common in Europe), it's easy to imagine how improvements in battery technology could make this viable for most urban bus routes over the next decade or two...Infrastructure costs would almost certainly be lower than with most other forms of electrified public transit (tramways, subways, light rail), and because the buses act like regular buses except when they are charging, the flexibility of such a system would be high...(Photo: A Opbrid electric bus photo)
* Brazil - 400,000 Mercedes-Benz buses sold in
São Bernardo do Campo plant,São Paulo,Brazil -eblog.mercedes-benz-passion, by Philipp Deppe -11 October 2010:-- Mercedes-Benz do Brasil has just reached a milestone of 400,000 buses sold in the country since 1956, when the company began producing buses in its São Bernardo do Campo plant, São Paulo.From then on, the company has experienced a solid growth path being the traditional market leader for many years in the internal sales with 53% market share in September 2010... The milestone of 400,000 buses sold in Brazil was symbolically reached by a O 500 RSD chassis. This vehicle, delivered to Viação Cometa, is one of the 123 chassis O 500 units acquired by this customer in 2010... Appropriate for intercity and tourism operations,the O 500 RSD chassis, is known in the market for its excellent performance due to the low fuel consumption and operational cost of the Mercedes-Benz electronic engine... With the sale of more than 12,000 bus chassis from January to September 2010, Mercedes-Benz continues as the Brazilian market leader, holding a market share of approximately 53%. This sales volume is 40% higher than that of the same period last year...(Image )
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home