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原文传递 COACH CLASS

题名：	COACH CLASS
正文语种：	eng
作者：	Will Dalrymple
摘要：	With their motorway tarmac-eating duty cycles, coaches might seem like the least possible vehicle type to electrify. Certainly full-electric coach options have been scarce in the market. That's particularly compared to their back-to-base passenger transport cousins, buses, which also have a willing supporter in terms of funding (the UK government). By contrast, most coach operators are privately owned. But look more closely and a value proposition for electrification emerges. "Coaches have a reasonable dwell time," argues Ian Foley, MD of Norfolk-based bus electrification and electronics manufacturer Equipmake. "With reasonably fast charging, you can envisage a scenario where intermittent charging can do more and more as the charging network improves and faster charging is available in service stations, so doing longer routes will be more viable. Certainly in the short term, like a city bus, coaches cannot do every duty cycle that a diesel coach will do, but the question is about being smart about what applications are chosen. Once you have charging at 150-200kW, you can get a surprising amount of charging in 40-minute stopovers."
出版年：	2023
期刊名称：	Transport engineer
期：	Sep.
页码：	22-23