South Korea Launches First Electric Bus Fleet 168
An anonymous reader writes "The Seoul Metropolitan Government just rolled out the world's first commercial all-electric bus service. The buses were designed to be as efficient as possible — each bus can run up to about 52 miles on a single charge and they have a maximum speed of about 62 miles per hour. The vehicles' lithium-ion battery packs can be fully charged in less than 30 minutes and they also feature regenerative braking systems that reuse energy from brakes when running downhill."
Re:First? What about Chattanooga TN? (Score:5, Funny)
I for one am surprised Chattanooga has electricity.
They do, but they call it "'lectric".
Re:Overhead wires (Score:4, Funny)
Or just use cables sliding through a slot in the road. Why don't they do that?
Re:Useless (Score:4, Funny)
Regenerative braking, by virtue of not being a method of implementing perpetual motion, is limited to generating less energy than is required to get the bus back up to the speed it was going before braking. So it won't extend the range at all, just avoid reducing the range too much in stop-start traffic.
So says you and your elitist "scientists".
Re:How could battery more green than wire? (Score:2, Funny)
No cables means no cable maintenance and no cable theft
In some of those countries they had this great idea and put the cables under voltage to avoid the theft.