Electric buses

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Greg
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Re: Electric buses

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HTRN wrote: Sun Jul 18, 2021 8:33 pm Best thing would be a combination of battery packs and overhead electric in a trolley bus.
I've seen a few places with overhead electric trolley buses. They only seem to actually work in places where they were used to replace railed streetcar lines, so the electric overhead was already in place.

But you never see places expand those lines to new areas, despite opportunities. For instance they never did it in Boston despite being, at various points, flush with cash.
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Re: Electric buses

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Some of those electric busses have large flywheels that get spun up while on the power lines and then can carry them some distance between power.

Also for battery powered busses there are in pavement pads at stops that give some charge while loading. My company developed and then divested of that to some other outfit (too niche for us).
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