Energy saving bus from Mercedes-Benz
22nd February 1986, Page 14
22nd February 1986
Page 14
Page 14, 22nd February 1986
— Energy saving bus from Mercedes-Benz
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MERCEDES-Benz singledeck buses with a flywheelbased energy storage system coupled to a 37kW (50hp) diesel engine are soon to begin field trials with Munich's public transport authority.
One "magnet motor" bus has already spent a year running empty on the 19k EI1 route between Munich and Starnberg to test the theories of physicist Goetz Heidelberg who designed the energy storage system, which, it is believed, is similar in principle to the Leyland/BP KESS system (CM, November 16, 1985).
The backer of the "magnet motor" bus, which stores kinetic energy during braking, expects it to be about half as expensive as the trolleybuses which are becoming increasingly popular in pollution-conscious German cities.