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Nowadays the most common
trolleybuses
Patient
in manufacture are standard (non-articulated),
articulatedand related (e.g., double-articulated) models.
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To establish the energy demand of the vehicles, articulated
articulated
buses
TransMilenio system
Patient
in Bogota, are taken as reference, with a capacity of 160 passengers.
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However, there is not commercial offer of
articulated
buses
(18 m) with battery
Patient
nowadays, mainly because the huge capacity that those batteries should have and their cost.
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Power and energy demand for propulsion typical inner city bus service (12 m solo or 18 m
articulated
bus)
Patient
needs traction drive peak powers in the range of 200 to 300 kW for up to 20 s (acceleration or regenerative braking).
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By 2017, the government plans to have 25
articulated
trolleybuses
Patient
operating over a 9.6-kilometre route. This initiative will reduce GHG emissions by 1,774 tonnes per year.
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The fleet now consists of
articulated,
low-floor
vehicles
Patient
with an auxiliary combustion engine and supercapacitors for storing recuperated electricity.
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Unfortunately for Transmilenio, electric traction was not considered, and instead
articulated
diesel
buses
Patient
have been operating since the inauguration of the system.
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In the case of non-articulated trolleybuses the number of standing places and seats is usually 30–35 and 65–70 respectively,
in
articulated
trolleybuses
Patient
40 and 110 and in double-articulated trolleybuses 60 and 140 respectively.
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Quito´s
articulated
trolleybus
Patient
consumes around 2,25 kWh/km, which means that the trolleybus must have a battery
of at least 250 kWh to have 160 km range, bringing a cost of more than USD 300.000.
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[...]energy consumptions for a solo and
articulated
bus
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can be assumed approximately, depending on passenger load, climate conditions and average traveling speed.
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Main routes are those with exclusive way infrastructure, especially easy to electrify, nowadays the system counts 84 km of
main routes, where 1080
articulated
buses
Patient
operate.
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U.S. Department of Energy also considers that the lithium batteries cost will be reduced to a third
part by 2015; if this optimist estimates are fulfilled, remains been insufficient for
articulated
buses
Patient
.
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This over cost puts the electrification infrastructure cost equal to the cost of batteries for only 8
articulated
buses
Patient
, for an estimated life span of 4 years, if is charged-discharged on daily basis.
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Over the next five years (2013-2017) 26 new
articulated
trolleybuses
Patient
will be put into service and the contract may be expanded by 14 additional vehicles,
including 9 bi-articulated trolleybuses with a proportionally higher capacity.
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