Re: Electric bus - partial trolleybus
  Matthew Geier

On 16/10/17 15:21, Robert Taaffertaaffe9@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:
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> Hello Matt

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> Maybe you should have gone to Vienna.

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> There are several electric bus routes - no diesel. They run around the

> inner city down the narrow roads. At the terminus the panto goes up for

> about 5 mins and then away it goes again.

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I saw those a couple of years ago. Rather 'cute' seeing a pantograph on
a bus. But they are a very special case - runs at slow speed though a
compact city centre and then gets a 5 minute recharge/rest break at end
of each 'run'.
They also just pulled the power from the tram network. I followed the
feeders from the bus layover area to the nearby ring tram route, so the
infrastructure for the opportunistic recharge was relatively cheap to
install.


Rome also has small battery electrics plying the old city center - and
their trolleybuses have been running the 'last mile' into the city
terminus on battery for 10 or more years now.
And those Roma trolley buses are not running their original batteries -
I seem to recall reading a tender notice for battery replacement some
time back.

What the Czech's are trying in Prague takes it to a whole new level.
Hope it works out.

Also the cities that are trying these have very strict noise and
pollution rules for their cities - and these rules penalize diesels
quite heavily, even the so called 'clean' diesels. Here the government
seems to believe soot is good for us.