FUEL ECONOMY * UK - Flybus to start testing flywheel hybrid bus
(Photo: The Flybus consortium is testing its prototype flywheel hybrid bus)
London,EN,UK -Gizmag, by Ben Coxworth -September 8, 2011: -- Gas/electric hybrid vehicles tend to be pricier than their conventional counterparts, and many people still worry about the limited range of all-electrics. If you want to move away from purely petrol-powered vehicles, though, is there any alternative? The four-company Flybus consortium would definitely say there is. It recently rigged up a bus with a prototype flywheel-based energy recover system, that stores the energy that would be wasted when the vehicle brakes, then returns that energy to the drivetrain when the bus accelerates. The researchers claim that it could deliver hybrid-like fuel economy, at a fraction of the price... This certainly isn't the first time that flywheels have been used to power buses. The gyroscopic effect of early systems such as those used in the Gyrobus, however, reportedly made the vehicles difficult to handle... Flybus's prototype is currently on display at the Low Carbon Vehicle event in the UK...
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