<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Lulu,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for being alert for new transportation technology developments Lulu. I have mentioned before the Proterra electric bus (<a href="http://green.autoblog.com/2009/02/08/proterra-touring-california-with-fast-charging-electric-bus/">http://green.autoblog.com/2009/02/08/proterra-touring-california-with-fast-charging-electric-bus/</a>). Also an electric bus has been operation in GB for many years. And Ford has a small hydrogen bus. Of course buses do not have the attraction-power or speed or capacity or energy efficiency or the long term operating and replacement cost savings or environmental and social benefits generally as an LRT. But electric &/or hydrogen buses would be excellent LRT express-bus connectors.</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div>Robert</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 8-Oct-10, at 12:19 PM, Louisette Lanteigne wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Opbrid, a company based in Spain, has just unveiled its Bůsbaar charging system for electric buses. It leverages technologies developed by the European rail industry and a special type of Lithium Titanate (nLTO) battery that allows rapid charge capability and a very large number of deep discharge cycles. This system would allow electric buses to have smaller batteries (thus less expensive) that are recharged more often; 5-6 minutes at each end of a bus route would be enough to allow an EV bus to operate all day.<br><br>For more info visit here:<br><a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/10/opbrid-overhead-fast-charging-system-for-electric-buses.php">http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/10/opbrid-overhead-fast-charging-system-for-electric-buses.php</a><br><br>Lulu<br><br></td></tr></tbody></table>_______________________________________________<br>All mailing list<br><a href="mailto:All@gren.ca">All@gren.ca</a><br>http://gren.ca/mailman/listinfo/all_gren.ca<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>