Battery Powered Bus Tour
by grmeyers
This comes in from Yann Ropars, Extanz, taking me to this clip on Business Daily Report. Alternatives taking us away from petroleum power light up the imagination.
UQM technology showcased on battery-bus tour
UQM Technologies production line at Fredersick, CO - source: UQM
FREDERICK – UQM Technologies Inc. (NYSE Alternext US: UQM) is along for the ride in a battery-powered electric bus making a showcase tour of four California cities.
Fredierick-based UQM develops electric motors and power controllers. The company’s PowerPhase 150 propulsion system powers the EcoRide BE35 battery-electric transit bus, which was built by Golden-based Proterra LLC. The bus is touted as zero-emission, fast-charge and virtually silent. The bus will make stops in San Jose, Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Francisco.
UQM’s propulsion system allows the bus to recapture more than 90 percent of its kinetic energy during braking.
“The fact is, emissions-free transit is not a ‘nice to have,’ it is a ‘must have’ for clean, healthy communities across California and the U.S., and UQM’s powerful and highly efficient electric propulsion system is a key component in achieving this objective,” said Dale Hill, founder and chief technology officer of Proterra, in a prepared statement.
Alternatives taking us away from petroleum power light up the imagination!
NoCoClean posted: 28 Feb at 6:58 am
No vehicle should be claimed as “emissions-free” unless the company can also demonstrate that it is also responsible for the generation of the requisite amount of emissions-free electric power. Otherwise they are just running their buses on coal rather than oil.
grmeyers posted: 02 Mar at 9:40 pm
Point taken! Your solution?