In Shenzhen, a Chinese metropolis, driving a whopping 16,000 buses around. And since short of driving all the buses electric. With a decrease in CO2 emissions of 48 per cent is a virtue for the air, but also the noise reduced significantly. Soon, the environmentally friendly buses accompanied by 13,000 other similar taxis.
At the bus stations in Shenzhen watch commuters now but better for their bus. While the former dieselmotors himself announced with hissing, rattling and a puff of smoke, the electric copies silently. That is a great advantage for a city with 11.4 million inhabitants. Further, it should Shenzhen be less likely to deal with the typical suffocating smog. the
Still, general manager of the bus company Joseph Ma with a few problems. the
Dangerous silence
The sudden transition from loud rumble to no sound, is pretty dangerous. The buses, after all, still just a quick and casual passers-by as much reinforcement. The only difference: there is no longer an alarm to the arrival of the buses in advance. “We received even many requests for the buses to be fitted with an artificial sound,” says Joseph Ma.
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The city of electric buses is a thing, sufficient charging points care is something else again. To ensure that the electrical bussenvloot not without energy is, installed the bus company in Shenzhen has 40,000 charging stations. The largest train station may twenty buses at the same time, charging: “They load during the night two hours, and then a whole service long drive”.
However, you can look forward to a possible extension of such charging stations. Especially since there is soon another of 13,000 electric taxis to the west end. And that makes it all a bit more complicated. Taxi’s drive all night and do not have fixed routes. The lack of sufficient charging points in the (for now) limited number of taxi drivers now with an electric drive a car or even quarrels. “That is a problem,” said Ma. But the bus company is working on an application that drivers will help in the search of the nearest charging point.
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