Originally Posted By: KrisZ
If you're so desperate for clean air why does it have to be an electric bus with batteries?
You obviously have no clue how it all works, but none the less are parroting this technology as if it were some sort of miracle cure for all transportation problems.
To answer your question, this is the latest news as of today July 18, 2016 from Autoblog.
I have no clue how it all works, and so are people in charge of mass transit in Geneva. They wasted millions in implementing the faster chargers and polluting their air worse than diesel buses these electric buses are replacing.
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Geneva will add a dozen electric buses to its municipal service after awarding a contract to Switzerland-based ABB to set up a so-called "flash-charging" network.
The buses will be used for a route that connects Geneva's airport with a new suburb called Praille-Acacias-Vernet, which will have about 11,000 residential units as well as offices housing about 11,000 workers. The line is estimated to serve more than 10,000 passengers a day, and will
include 13 "flash-charging" stations. At each station, the bus will recharge for 15 seconds, and the 600-kilowatt blast (five times what the Tesla Superchargers deploy) will supply enough energy to get the bus to the next station. At the end of the line, the buses, which will run approximately every 10 minutes, can be recharged in about five minutes via the flash chargers.
Once running, the project will cut carbon dioxide emissions by as much as 1,000 tons per year compared to diesel buses.
http://www.autoblog.com/2016/07/18/genevas-new-flash-charge-electric-buses-refuel-in-15-seconds/
The reduction in carbon dioxide emissions is estimated by them, I can't prove or disprove their claim. Can you disprove their claim ?
Their implementation of fast chargers for the electric bus is about the same as I posted few days ago. As the bus stopped at the bus-stop to load/unload passengers the fast charger will top off the battery with enough juice until the next stop.
Do you now see that I am not parroting anything, I just read the first report about fast charging innovative few days ago and think about how to implement it to reduce harmful emission from diesel bus. And I think you saw the list of the 10 worse air pollution cities in U.S. ? California has 6 cities in the list and the worst 4 cities.
If you live in or near the worst smog city, don't you want cleaner air like everyone else who lives there ?
Another source about that same fast charger and electric bus in Geneva.
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ABB has been awarded orders totaling more than $16 million by Transports Publics Genevois (TPG), Geneva’s public transport operator, and Swiss bus manufacturer HESS, to provide flash charging and on-board electric vehicle technology for 12 TOSA (Trolleybus Optimisation Système Alimentation) fully electric buses (e-buses) which will run on Line 23, connecting Geneva’s airport with suburban Geneva.
The e-buses can help save as much as 1,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year, when compared with existing diesel buses.
ABB will deliver and
deploy 13 flash-charging stations along an urban transit bus route, as well as three terminal and four depot feeding stations. This will be the world’s fastest flash-charging connection technology taking less than 1 second to connect the bus to the charging point. The onboard batteries can then be charged in 15 seconds with a 600-kilowatt boost of power at the bus stop. A further 4 to 5 minute charge at the terminus at the end of the line enables a full recharge of the batteries. The innovative technology was developed by ABB engineers in Switzerland.
