You don't need a charger at every stop, only a few. You can see the pantograph uses its own system to line itself up with the charger at 0:20.

Induction is slower and less efficient.

+SFB Addict Induction is just as instant as any regular transformer. I guess the power transfered in those few seconds is just way too much, it needs some big solid contact terminals.

Copper ☹️

Yes, but only one bus line (Line 23 from the city of Geneva to the Airport !)

15 km

XplaneZ its only partially charged on every station. more amps for the battery just like phones.

Capacitor

Ultra capacitors

Supercapcitors u have in electronics

Pas de neige ou verglas cet an !

Such a disaster huh.

City streets do not change much ! You can move the charging station 100m if you must do it. Overhead lines are more costly in terms of installing and maintaining !

Indeed it is

I've taking this bus line 23 to and from the Geneva airport for the past 2 years. Never have a problem and always on time.

@@melissawong4125 why not mass produce yet？

why would they?

Bhanu Prakash Ashoka Leyland done deal with ABB this month

One bus stops at many stops. There are more stops than buses, so it's more efficient to put the arm on the bus.

Maybe in Australia or Dubai, such sunny places. In Europe definitely not.. 80% of the time it's dark and raining here.

Far too small an area, far too intermittant (clouds, night, winter). Very expensive, in the end.

Brian_H There are flexible panels now that can be embedded as the skin of the vehicle and the continue to produce power even on cludy days. Your answer would have been correct for solar panels of 15 years ago but not for modern ones.

spammeaccount Steve K. It's still relevant today. Solar doesn't have the capacity to really do anything meaningful over the course of a day in the space of a bus, especially with panels that are mobile mounted. You're better off putting higher efficiency panels at a fixed location and using that to offset the power used to charge. Something like a bus requires about 1.5 - 2.5 kWh per mile of power to run over the course of a day. The area on a bus might generate a peak of about 1 kWh during the best hours of the day, buying you perhaps 4-7 miles of driving per day, so the expense really isn't worth it, especially when you consider longevity of the panels in that mobile environment. At best, you could offset the cost of running the A/C or heat in the bus with solar, but you couldn't really supply the drive motor effectively.

+babybirdhome if you can take car of the AC via solar then it ought to be done

There is no sun energy at night

Why

it is a start and the improvement in battery tech might have a net effect helping solar and wind industries

Switzerland has no coal power plants. Over 50 per cent of the electricity comes from hydroelectric power plants

but it's more efficient. so that means even if 100% of the electricity used to power buses would be generated using fossil fuels, it would be still much more efficient that running diesel buses. but since it's not the case as nuclear and green energy sources are present, i think it can significantly reduce the need to burn fossil fuels. using this technology we can slowly move to 100% green transport (talking about fuel), using diesel engines we can never achieve it. also zero local emission is good for people's lungs. so is my eyes this kind of development is always very positive.

only the fact that you take pollutants that kill your health out of the city to stations that these pollutants can be controlled easier is a great step. how much platinum and precious metals can be saved, regulated and feel sure the devices they are in, work properly? There are millions of dead catalysts out there that were supposed to clean ice exhaust gasses How much money and hours are saved for every ice powered car from inspection Instead you have the power produced from a handful of places. Easy to control, regulate and proceed to the proper corrections. All this gasoline that is being burned inefficiently could be burned efficiently in turbines producing electricity and heat for home use. Then the CO2 could be captured at the stack with far greater efficiency than normal air. and much more

It's still lot efficient than internal combustion...and also one bus can carry as much people as 40cars