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Electrifying ENGINEERING
| 题名： | Electrifying ENGINEERING |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | Richard Simpson |
| 摘要： | Where London leads, the world follows. And this is very true in the field of public transport, where the UK capital opened the world's first underground passenger railway in 1863. More recently, London has been an enthusiastic early adopter of alternative drivelines for buses: first in the form of hybrids including the 'Borismaster,' and more recently in battery-electrics. The terrible twins of global climate change and local air quality have been instrumental in driving this forward. While the higher capital cost of electric buses is universally acknowledged, the hope has always been that this can be recouped over the life of the vehicle by reduced energy and engineering costs. And, in any case, Transport for London aspires to make the entire bus fleet zero-emission by 2030, if funding allows. The burden of implementing such ambitious plans falls on the shoulders of engineers such as Richard Harrington, the engineering director of Go-Ahead London, one of TfL's bus operators. Harrington's career with the capital's buses began in 1984, when he joined London Transport as an engineering apprentice. His involvement with electric buses goes back to 2011, when, with TfL's ambitious air quality and climate change policies taking shape, he visited the Kortrijk Busworld Show with a view to organising electric bus trials in London. To his dismay, the European manufacturers all wanted to include two years' research and development overheads in the cost of any trial. |
| 出版年： | 2023 |
| 期刊名称： | Transport engineer |
| 期： | Jan. |
| 页码： | 12-13 |
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