http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/1890986/hong-kongs-prototype-electric-bus-goes-flames Hong Kong’s prototype electric bus goes up in flames: Short circuit blamed 14 December, 2015 Danny Mok
[images http://cdn1.scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/980w/public/images/methode/2015/12/14/d314f2d6-a1fc-11e5-9340-91203134f877_1280x720.jpg?itok=6Vgfgf-V Hong Kong’s protoype electric bus on fire Photo: Supplied http://www.scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/980w/public/images/methode/2015/12/14/4b0afc36-a1cb-11e5-9340-91203134f877_image_hires.jpg?itok=adtyyHZ- The prototype electric bus was designed to carry 75 passengers. ] HK$3.8 million vehicle that had just passed extensive road tests and was ready to go into commercial operation reduced to a charred wreck A HK$3.8 million prototype electric bus, the first to be designed in the city but built on the mainland, went up in flames yesterday. The fire department believed the vehicle, which had just passed a road test and was ready for commercialisation, suffered a short circuit and overheated battery. Police were alerted at about 5.30pm when a driver passing the parking site in Fuk Hi Street on the Yuen Long Industrial Estate noticed thick black smoke billowing into the air. Firemen put out the flames shortly before 6pm but the bus was reduced to a charred wreck. A spokesman for the Hong Kong Productivity Council, which designed and made the bus unveiled in a promotional event on October 26, said last night the vehicle had been handed over a couple of weeks ago to the project sponsor Green Dynamic Electric Vehicle, a subsidiary of Hong Kong-listed China Dynamics (Holdings), for commercialisation after passing road tests. He was surprised by the incident and said the council would investigate. The 11.75-metre-long, 12.5-tonne single-decker electric bus was assembled on the mainland by the council’s experts. Researchers had spent two years completing the project, which was jointly funded by the government’s Innovation and Technology Fund and Green Dynamic. [© scmp.com] ... [dated] http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/economy/article/1872155/first-hong-kong-designed-electric-bus-hits-citys-roads-month First Hong Kong-designed electric bus rolls out for a month of test-drives on city's roads 26 Oct 2015 ... http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/1845387/first-five-byd-electric-buses-ordered-new-world Five more electric buses will be on Hong Kong's roads by end of year as city tries to reduce pollution 31 Jul 2015 For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Hong-Kong-cn-protoype-e-bus-fire-short-circuit-overheated-pack-tp4679192.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
