Bombardier testing electric buses with wireless battery charge

[OlafSicky]

https://worldnewsnetwork7.com/world...o-test-electric-buses-that-charge-wirelessly/

and here is a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QffOR_iZso0&feature=player_embedded

Probably one of the coolest things in city transportation in a long time.Buses and trams will charge on top of underground charging stations. No wires or plunging in just run and charge when you need it. :biggrin:

 

[Murloc]

issues: infrastructure cost, standardization issues, waste of energy, and the fact that you don't recharge the battery enough if you just put them under bus stops. Plus taxis would lose fares if they had to wait to get a refill during their work day.

Cool concept that still costs less in infrastructure than trolley buses and is more flexible so there's that, but I still see it just as an experimental thing.

 

[OlafSicky]

It might have some growing pains but it seems like a cool idea. buses make stops all the time so it doesn't need to get a full charge every time. It looks like it's cost effective enough for them to test it in a German city which is very exciting. I would think that maintaining wires would be more expensive than maintaining underground charging stations.

 

[thedarkwolf]

Jay Leno's garage has done a two videos on battery powered buses. In those videos they say most of these city buses only go 80 miles during a shift if I remember right which makes battery power make a lot sense. The last one he reviewed would do 90 miles on a full charge with a/c or heat running so it worked very well for most routes. They had fast recharge stations setup to get them back out pretty quick too. Don't see much point in this wireless crap.

 

[techs]

Wireless wastes a lot of electricity iirc. So you are somewhat defeating the purpose.

Overhead lines that could drop and connect directely to the top of the buses would seen a better choice. You wouldn't have to tear up the streets as much. Just put the chargers at various places along the bus routes.

 

[LTC8K6]

EMF!!!!

 

[amdskip]

How about bus/trolley's?

 

[sdifox]

fucking stupid... There is nothing wrong with a wire...

 

[silverpig]

I don't see this replacing overhead trolley buses, but they could make sense for some new installations.

 

[sdifox]

I don't see this replacing overhead trolley buses, but they could make sense for some new installations.

It doesn't make sense in any installation.

 

[mmntech]

I don't see this replacing overhead trolley buses, but they could make sense for some new installations.

Here in Toronto, overhead trolley buses would be a huge improvement over their archaic street cars, let alone wireless charging buses.

Urban environments are where EVs really shine. Range isn't as much an issue and there's better access to charging. Though I don't see wireless charging becoming commonplace due mostly to costs.

 

[Red Squirrel]

It's funny because I always said they need to make stuff like phones etc that use induction for charging, it's neat that now we're actually seeing stuff like this come out.

Too bad we'll never actually see any of this though. In fact by now we should all be driving electric cars, but too many political/money reasons why we arn't so I don't see it happening for buses. But the technology is there, we just arn't using it or putting anything into it to improve it even more. When something does come out, it's just a concept that never makes it to the masses.