Electric Buses Profit From New Charging Methods

New charging methods including opportunity charging strategies are making electric buses attractive.

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Electric buses are still in their infancy. They are however inevitable. Supported by technology, they are progressing at a serious rate. Even the technology to charge bus batteries is changing. Operators are coming to have more than one method to charge their vehicles. The new methods do away with ‘overnight charging’, which has traditionally been the technique. The traditional ‘plugged in’ charging method is known to require several hours of charging to hit the road with a fully charged battery. Something that is difficult to repeat each day. An alternative method of opportunity charging – a rapid and intense blast of power at strategic points along the route is turning out to be promising. It is also showing the potential to have a longer range as well.