Volvo buses charge through the air



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    Volvo has long been conducting research in the field of wireless charging of vehicles based on electric motors. For these studies used a Volvo C30 Electric, the company's employees decided not to stop on achieved results in the area of charging.

    As it became known recently, Volvo are working on a project for inductive charging of buses. The plans of the brand in 2015 implement pilot section of the road, which will allow air to plug-in hybrid bus Hyper Bus. It is noted that work on the project involved the Swedish transport administration. In the first phase the length of this route would be only 500 meters.

    To date, the said buses operating in Sweden, in Gothenburg. Hyper Bus run on batteries that recharge at the end point of the route. It takes only 5-9 minutes due to the wired charging. Developed by the company Volvo road surface should remove the need to charge the bus in the depot....



Source: trended.ru/

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