Recent content by Ssoccal

Rowan, to create a "public" swappable battery system is much complex. But a private one is really easy if you own a group of busses (all equals). Then once many private companies have the same standard, you can create a public system. This is for me the intresting with urban buses. And in the...

The interesting thing on a urban bus, is that all busses are owned by the same company, all buses stop on the same place to have a maintenance between trips. So you already can have an standard on all your company buses. If you own 500 buses you have an standar and a typical battery pack to use...

The issue of this bus is the battery cost. I'm talking about 27 miles and 54 kWh battery pack And you change it for every trip.

i have a doubt. Why tesla is not hardly participating in electric urban buses. I can imagine that urban busses usually take a round trip of 10-30 km. That mean that this busses can have a small battery that allow them move 30-50 km (for safer trip) then, once the bus is preparing for the next...