Trolleymotion gets straight to the point:

http://www.trolleymotion.eu/www/index.php?L=3&id=38&n_ID=2805 http://www.trolleymotion.eu/www/index.php?L=3&id=38&n_ID=2805

Wrightspeed fails to reach the mark after so much hype. A diesel turbine engine will be doing up to 60% of the work of the engine in a straight diesel bus, so it's little more than a diesel-electric hybrid. Now they're considering operating it on specific routes where the diesel doesn't have to work so hard. The discussion following this piece is interesting.

http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=100827 http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=100827

This is so far behind electric bus developments in Europe and even Australia I don't know why they even bothered trying to tackle it themselves. The fact that it uses fuel at all should have disqualified it before it was let through the gate. Patriotic promotion of NZ ingenuity? For sure it was worth giving an inventor involved with Tesla a go, but he failed to reach the goal. He might help make a difference with trucks though, which is the hardest nut to crack.

I've heard that the in-motion charging, partial trolleybus test in Prague has been deliberately timed to be run throughout winter, which is the most challenging operating environment. The buses are air-conditioned. A side benefit of this method, incidentally, is that it only involves unobtrusive, straight sections of wire and removes the need for the ugly tangles of junctions and turnouts which are the biggest obstacle to promoting the use of trolleybuses in cities.

Tony P