The initial post referred to an article that said Li-Ion battery.
Cor.
> On Nov 27, 2015, at 4:11 AM, Alan Arrison via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> It's obviously a publicity stunt.
> Anyone can throw a ton of batteries in a bus and do it.
> Of course there are no technical specs or prices mentioned.
>
>
>> On 11/26/2015 8:23 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV wrote:
>>> On 25 Nov 2015 at 21:46, Alan Arrison via EV wrote:
>>>
>>> So the bus traveled at about 25mph. Totally unacceptable in a real
>>> world situation.
>> Well, I'd guess that the city buses round these parts average less than that
>> speed
>>
>> But I know what you mean. It's not a "real world" test. It's more of a
>> promotional gimmick. Maybe they think that purchasing agents for bus fleets
>> would be impressed by such a test, but I wonder how many really would.
>>
>> And though I may have missed it, I didn't see any discussion of what the bus
>> (or the battery) will cost. You can get impressive range with a silver-zinc
>> battery, for example, but the cost is insane.
>>
>> (FWIW, an engineer I knew many years ago had once worked on designs for US
>> military submarine target drones. He couldn't tell me much about them, but
>> he did say that they were powered by silver-zinc batteries. Your tax dollars
>> going up in smoke, I guess, but at least they weren't pulverizing lead or
>> cadmium in the ocean.)
>>
>> David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
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