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Busscar trolleybus in São Paulo, Brazil Solaris trolleybus in Landskrona, Sweden Video of a trolleybus in Ghent, Belgium. A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tram – in the 1910s and 1920s [1] – or trolley [2] [3]) is an electric bus that draws power from dual overhead wires (generally suspended from roadside posts) using spring-loaded ...
A battery electric bus is an electric bus that is driven by an electric motor and obtains energy from on-board batteries. Many trolleybuses use batteries as an auxiliary or emergency power source. Battery electric buses offer the potential for zero-emissions, in addition to much quieter operation and better acceleration compared to traditional ...
Electric buses in Bogotá. An electric bus is a bus that is propelled using electric motors, as opposed to a conventional internal combustion engine.Electric buses can store the needed electrical energy on board, or be fed mains electricity continuously from an external source such as overhead lines.
Boston Neoplan DMA-460LF dual-mode trolleybus, operating in diesel mode (with its trolley poles lowered). A dual-mode bus is a bus that can run independently on power from two different sources, typically electricity from overhead lines like a trolleybus or from batteries like a hybrid bus, alternated with conventional fossil fuel (generally diesel fuel).
URSUS in Lublin, Poland, produces a range of electric buses and trolleybuses under the brand of its subsidiary Ursus Bus. VDL Bus & Coach is marketleader of electrical buses in Europe (Sept 2017), with the largest fully electric fleet in the EU. The project of 43 SLFA-181 electrical buses in late 2016 was the biggest transition to zero emission ...
Battery electric buses combine the electric motive power of a trolleybus, the drawbacks of battery manufacture, weight and lifespan with the routing flexibility of a bus with any onboard power. Major manufacturers include BYD and Proterra.
On the right is an articulated New Flyer trolleybus, one of 60 articulated ETBs built by New Flyer for Muni in 1993-94 ZiU-9/682 is the most numerous trolleybus model in the world (over 42,000 trolleybuses were produced since 1972) Bogdan/Ursus Т701.16 in Lublin Foton BJD-WG120FN bimodal trolleybus in Beijing
The Chollima-321 (Korean: 천리마-321) is a North Korean trolleybus with battery power built by the Pyongyang Trolley Bus Factory. [1] The name 'Chollima' refers to a myth about a winged horse that has since been adopted as the name of North Korea's Stakhanovite movement. [2]