Flywheel-Equipped Buses Could be 20% More Fuel Efficient
Photo: Ricardo, Flybus flywheel transmission mated to CVT Old Buses Can be Retrofitted The FLYBUS consortium, which brings together Optare , Ricardo , and Torotrak , aims to create a bus prototype that uses a high-performance flywheel mated to a special CVT transmission to capture braking energy and thus reduce fuel consumption. Such a system would be less expensive than diesel-electric hybrid buses with batteries and electric motors, so they could replace them in certain situations, and they could even b… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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