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- From: henigan@quando.quantum.de (Kevin Henigan)
- Subject: Re: More chatter on electric vehicles ...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.144743.4869@quando.quantum.de>
- Keywords: electric school busses ?
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- References: <1992Nov11.184055.7336@srg.srg.af.mil> <1992Nov13.081355.151@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:47:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.081355.151@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM> kwyatt@ccscola.Columbia.NCR.COM (Kershner Wyatt) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov11.184055.7336@srg.srg.af.mil> akerson@deimos.af.mil (Pete Akerson - akerson%srg@uunet.uucp) writes:
- >> As a filthy black cloud farted out of the school bus ahead
- >>of me on my way to work, I wondered
- >>"Why arent those things electric ?"
- >>Think about it :
- >>Very low mileage fixed routes.
- >>Maximum speed need not be 55 mph.
- >>Time to recharge in the middle of the day.
- >>Huge vehicle size to carry big heavy (lead?) batteries.
- >>and use an old gas buss for occaisional field trips.
- >
- >
- >I have said the same things about mail trucks for years. Torque, not speed
- >needed. Idle, idle, idle, flat to the floor, idle, ad nauseum. I really had
- >a tizzy when I found out that the official USPS truck in my neighborhood was
- >a 6 cylinder...
-
- In England the door to door milk delivery is done using electric floats. They
- go from house to house, with a max speed of about 20Mph, ideal. The floats
- have been in service for years.
-
- >School buses electric? Probably wouldn't provide the acceleration and speed
- >the one driver obviously needs in my subdivision.
-
- In a main German town they tried a pilot scheme to use Electric buses, they
- were re-charged at modified bus stops that allowed connection to an overhead
- electric cable, while the people got on and off. This meant the range was
- increased or the no of batteries were less.
-
- >Kershner Wyatt
- >kwyatt@ccscola.ColumbiaSC.ncr.com
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