The future Fast and the Furious bus

Mariselle Stofberg
Jaden Frey

An electric bus is a bus that is powered by electricity. They can store their energy on board or the can be get it continuously from an external source. Buses which store the electricity are battery electric buses, in which the motor obtains energy from an on board battery. When electricity is being stored on board, it is supplied by contact by outside sources for example an overhead wire or with a non-contact conductor.

Principles:

1. The Battery

One of the most popular busses nowadays are battery electronic busses. Its electricity is being stored in a battery on board the vehicle. It can have a range of 280km-300km in just one charge it has, its range is being reduced by the extreme temperatures and the hills its driving on. It isn't just used anywhere...It's usually being used in larger places like for instance the city due to its particularities in limited range.

Driving in the city is quite a great deal of accelerating and braking. Due to this, the battery electronic bus is superior to diesel but it can recharge most of the kinetic energy back into batteries in braking situations. Thus will definitely reduce the brake wear of the bus and the use of the diesel reduces the noise as well.

2. Capacitors

The capacitors can be used instead of the batteries to store in the energy. Ultra capacities can only store about 5% of the energy that lithium- ion batteries hold the same weight, limiting them to a couple of miles per charge. However, ultra-capacities can charge and discharge much more rapidly than conventional batteries.

FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

Includes the use of inductive charging under the street, to avoid overhead wiring. A pod under each bus stop and at each stoplight along the way would be used.

As with other electronic vehicles, unconditional weather (coldness) would lead the electronic busses to great damage. And can weaken some functions. In addition, terrain may pose a challenge to the adoption of electronic vehicles that has stored energy compared to non-electronic busses.

ADVANTAGES

The cost of maintenance is lower than the maintenance cost of diesel bus, since their services differ from one another.

Electric engines energy losses are significantly lower than diesel engines energy losses, the cost per/km electric vehicles are less than diesel busses.

The electric bus is quieter than the diesel bus, giving travellers a more experience and significantly reducing the environment noise.

DISADVANTAGES

The electrical vehicle is much more off expensive than a diesel bus, but the cost will go down in time.

There are adjustments that'll have to be made to the energy system according to the area in which the bus operates.

In the normal time an energy system monitoring is required to prevent malfunctions and delays.