[tmellon2]

Incredible. If all governments are serious about global warming, they would move all public transport buses to this battery (and hook it up to Solar farms directly, when parked in terminals between break shifts). Public transport buses are the ones that would clock 1.5 million kms. (200 km / day x 300 days = 60,000 kms per year, considering 2 month downtime per bus). One can quickly wean off caveman oil.

[jdalgetty]

To me it would make sense for large vehicles like city buses to use some sort of battery swapping system. Each half hour or hour when they get back to the main terminal they swap batteries and carry on.

[pipodeclown]

Nah mate, overhead chargers above each busstop which automatically engage.

[flemhans]

And they have downtime anyway in the night in most cases where they top up