Goodbye diesel! This double-decker bus has been converted to ELECTRIC!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ค. 2022
- New Zealand engineers removed the dirty diesel engine from this double-decker bus in an effort to make it run on clean, efficient electricity.
The result is this pure electric bus with ten battery packs and plenty of useful range. And this is just the beginning, as the Tranzit Group workshop is now prepared to convert one bus every two weeks! Kiwi ingenuity strikes again!
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I have no idea how many dollars New Zealand has to export each year to pay for diesel and gasoline but keeping that in the local economy has got to be a major benefit.
Will be around $10bn this year!
It was about 7 billion
Why isn't the government stimulating EVs?
@@MuzzaHukka the last govt was with the clean car scheme. The incoming govt says it will ditch that so stinky utes become cheaper again (boo)
I wonder what happened to the old trolley buses that NZ Bus had big plans to convert to battery electric. Just a year or three too early.
That's impressive. 350kwh battery pack made up of 10 modules from CATL around the bus. 240kw motor with 3,000nm of torque. 600v system. 250km of range. $350,000 cost for first conversion.
Considering a full ev bus cost north of 700k it’s a bargain
Just wonderful! Definitely a step in the right direction. We desperately need carbon-neutral mass road transport, especially in big urban areas.
Great interview. Loved the bit at the back of the bus.
Well done, Tranzit!
If we ever needed confirmation that our low-carbon transition will create new jobs and opportunities, this would be an excellent example.
very much looking forward to this video - you should have brought with you a few bananas boxes
Nice job, Tranzit! More of these on the road, replacing diesel buses, will greatly improve urban air quality! 👍
this is a very impressive result.
Nice clean job...well done.
Yeah but what's the PSC?
PSC?
Potato storage capacity. Watch one of Gavin's many EV test drive videos and you'll learn all about it.
For a bus, it's got to be tremendous.
Excellent!!!
Those buses are pretty new right? Makes you wonder why they were ever bought with diesel motors in the first place...
EV buses are more than twice the price of diesel buses. If you need to buy 100 new buses that's a big hurdle.
@@briananthony4044 Is that an opinion or a fact?
@@heathwirt8919 Fact, is the reason older buses aren't replaced with EVs on a 1 to 1 basis. Same as cars, battery packs are expensive, but in time will get cheaper, but for now. Price parity is expected to be reached by 2030. Taken from Auckland report on future bus services.
Wow, I love this bus!
"which is great news if you were born with a respiratory system" 😂
That’s awesome, would love to know what motor it is, and the rest of the parts.
Electric too yes smooth
Is there a conversion series on this bus?
Impressive, I hope our politicians are taking notice and will be helping public transport to become electrified.
👍
Would you tell us what is that company's battery system? Is that Porterra electric battery 🔋? Thank
CATL 350kw
@@gusmanual1 They make good reliable batteries. Well known brand
Can't wait for some quieter electric buses to be put on the route that passes by my house - diesels are so bloody loud.
I am a blind subscriber could somebody briefly fill in the blanks what got moved? And what happened to the back of the bus? Thanks cheers
They are talking about the organization of the electric and battery components. Of course it is where there used to be a diesel engine.
So, I don't know what is what exactly, but the main parts of a battery electric vehicle are:
a Battery pack
a Power inverter
an Electric motor
an Onboard battery charger
a Battery management system
a Charging port
So, he was pointing to different areas where there were batteries, but we couldn't see them exactly. They looked to be under the seats, forward of the area where the engine used to be. And the electric motor was probably buried under the other components in line with the rear axle, so we couldn't see that either.
So I guess some of the things they were talking about "moving around" were the power inverter, onboard battery charger, charging ports, and the battery management system. And there were some nice thick, orange cables. Everything looked neat, clean and professionally done.
There were two charging ports that looked like European or Chinese- style ports. Usually on a car, there would be just one.
To explain what the charging ports look like, there's a big circle, and within the big circle, there are three rows of smaller circles where the plug connects to the ports. The top row has two circles, the middle row has three circles, and the bottom row has two circles again. I'll have to watch again to learn what kind of charging ports they are.
So actually, after rewatching the video, I can see the. charging ports are CCS charging ports. The top part is as I described, the narrator had pulled the black plastic cover off, and you could see that, but there is a bottom part with the cap on, but in charging, they would pull off both caps and use a CCS DC fast charger. If you had an AC slow charger, you could use only the top section. So he was saying each one could charge at 120 kilowatts, and 200 amps. With dual charging, it would be up to 240 kilowatts and 400 amps. Which is seriously impressive I think. But of course you need a lot of power to recharge the big battery banks for a big double-decker bus.
What happened to the back of the bus was they took the diesel engine and transmission and everything out. They showed a picture of it for about 2-4 seconds. It was a big area behind the rear wheels, . A bunch of panels were opened like doors. That's where the mechanics would have had access to the former engine. Above the empty engine compartment, I could see some air conditioning fans. So I guess they probably kept the air conditioner system, unless they installed a new and improved one. There was no floor below the engine compartment, just empty space.
The area seems to be about 1 and 1/2 meters tall, and maybe 2 meters deep, plus the width of the bus.
Thanks for taking the time and making the effort cheers
No such thing as net zero