TAN: SF's "flywheel" bus" (was: Re: " Windsplitters")

Peter D. Ehrlich
Monday, September 10, 2001 3:42 PM

In a message dated 10 Sept 2001 @ 0440 PDT, "Donald Campbell"
<[email protected]> wrote:

<[snipped]>

..I remember several years ago hearing
that San Francisco had an experimental trolley bus fitted with a
fly-wheel. As the bus proceeded normally under wires the fly-wheel was spun,
and the energy stored could be used to move the bus for distance of a
couple of km beyond the end of the wire. Any info out there? Was I spun a
story?

Yes, you were spun a story. To the best of my knowledge, there never was a
Flywheel bus. Or if there was, it never went into revenue service.

Milantram


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