King Long Hybrid-Electric Buses
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The 2 new buses will be starting their trials soon with 2 bus conpanies ONLY. They are SMRT and Brickston Pte Ltd. These 2 companies are now having talks so as to be ready for the trials.
As for SBS Transit, they may plan to buy such Hybrid-Electric buses in future although 1 of the demos were entitled to SMRT.
Only thing is that 1 such bus cost half a million dollars, $500K.
http://wildsingaporenews.blogspot.com/2009/11/hybrid-buses-ready-for-trials-in.html
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more china bus =X
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Originally posted by jayh272416:
more china bus =X
Yah, confirm more of them as their standards are not that bad.
Rego wise, if the King Long come before Mercs Citaro O530, it will be:
King Long : SMB136C
Citaro O530 : SMB137A - SMB202U -
heard the bus is noisy...
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SBS & NTU is looking at the fuel cell bus project part due for YOG display
But time is running out for ADD varient
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Originally posted by ^tamago^:
heard the bus is noisy...
China made Hybrid Bus in Shenzhen
I have try King Long hybrid bus before, is better that the hybrid bus in Shenzhen.
However Kinglong's hybrid bus is poor than those service in Big Bird Airport (羽田空港), Japan
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Alot more new initiatives for public transport in Singapore. Fully electical buses next?
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Originally posted by TIB1234T:
The 2 new buses will be starting their trials soon with 2 bus conpanies ONLY. They are SMRT and Brickston Pte Ltd. These 2 companies are now having talks so as to be ready for the trials.
As for SBS Transit, they may plan to buy such Hybrid-Electric buses in future although 1 of the demos were entitled to SMRT.
Only thing is that 1 such bus cost half a million dollars, $500K.
http://wildsingaporenews.blogspot.com/2009/11/hybrid-buses-ready-for-trials-in.html
SMRT buying new bus again. $500K is expensive. Saw a King Long bus just now , the seats looks very comfortable.
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The bus is a diesel-electric hybrid, not a hybrid-electric. In fact, I don't know what a hybrid-electric exactly is.
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Originally posted by Bus and Train LoVuR:
SMRT buying new bus again. $500K is expensive. Saw a King Long bus just now , the seats looks very comfortable.
might not be the same for public bus...
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Originally posted by Yusry:
The bus is a diesel-electric hybrid, not a hybrid-electric. In fact, I don't know what a hybrid-electric exactly is.
hybrid-electric.
maybe runs on electric & bananas. -
Originally posted by sinicker:
hybrid-electric.
maybe runs on electric & bananas.AC and DC
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Originally posted by sinicker:
hybrid-electric.
maybe runs on electric & bananas.this reminds me of dole bananas ad on striders/dm3500s, u know, the guy holding a banana with a shocked face.
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Originally posted by Yusry:
The bus is a diesel-electric hybrid, not a hybrid-electric. In fact, I don't know what a hybrid-electric exactly is.
From the looks of the King Long unit, it should be a parallel hybrid system.
Series hybrid buses have large battery packs on the roofs as a identifying factor. There are exceptions though (like the Enviro 400H as an example).
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Originally posted by TIB1224Y:
From the looks of the King Long unit, it should be a parallel hybrid system.
Series hybrid buses have large battery packs on the roofs as a identifying factor. There are exceptions though (like the Enviro 400H as an example).
I assume this reply is not in reference to my reply, but just a knowledge nibble with no relation to my reply.
Linguistically, a hybrid-electric does not make sense in this context.
Hybrid by itself means two or more *something* combination. So a hybrid-electric logically means at least three or more *something* combination of which one is 'electric'.
Where the system is a parallel or series or parallel-series hybrid, the term hybrid-electric is still wrong.
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saw the pic of the king long bus in the straits times, the bus is using alcoa rims
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Originally posted by Yusry:
I assume this reply is not in reference to my reply, but just a knowledge nibble with no relation to my reply.
Linguistically, a hybrid-electric does not make sense in this context.
Hybrid by itself means two or more *something* combination. So a hybrid-electric logically means at least three or more *something* combination of which one is 'electric'.
Where the system is a parallel or series or parallel-series hybrid, the term hybrid-electric is still wrong.
Yes I agree. I just added to your point.
Not in relation to the hybrid factor.
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petrol-electric hybrid.
diesel-electric hybrid.
banana-electric hybrid.
petrol-apple hybrid.
this the correct way of presentation. -
its featured in the straits times today home section
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Originally posted by TIB1234T:
The 2 new buses will be starting their trials soon with 2 bus conpanies ONLY. They are SMRT and Brickston Pte Ltd. These 2 companies are now having talks so as to be ready for the trials.
As for SBS Transit, they may plan to buy such Hybrid-Electric buses in future although 1 of the demos were entitled to SMRT.
Only thing is that 1 such bus cost half a million dollars, $500K.
http://wildsingaporenews.blogspot.com/2009/11/hybrid-buses-ready-for-trials-in.html
Are you very sure that SMRT and Brickston will definitely be operating the hybrid demos? Whichever way I read the article, the talks are about ST Kinetics persuading the 2 companies to take up the demo units as a trial (ie the 2 companies had not confirmed that they will be operating), not about having talks so as to be ready for trials (ie the 2 companies had confirmed that they will be operating and are just ironing out operational issues).
As much as I hope the 2 companies will eventually take up the option of running the demos, I'm keeping my fingers crossed until the trial is finalised between the 2 operators. Afterall, I'm sure it is not an obligation free trial, considering the parties involved in the production of the vehicle.
ST Kinetics is currently in talks with two bus operators about running trials for the buses.
The Straits Times understands they are SMRT Corp and Brickston Transport, a company whose main business is ferrying factory workers.
ST Kinetics hopes to convince the two firms of the buses' viability during the trial, and hopes they will order more such coaches in future -
Originally posted by TIB1186Z:
Are you very sure that SMRT and Brickston will definitely be operating the hybrid demos? Whichever way I read the article, the talks are about ST Kinetics persuading the 2 companies to take up the demo units as a trial (ie the 2 companies had not confirmed that they will be operating), not about having talks so as to be ready for trials (ie the 2 companies had confirmed that they will be operating and are just ironing out operational issues).
As much as I hope the 2 companies will eventually take up the option of running the demos, I'm keeping my fingers crossed until the trial is finalised between the 2 operators. Afterall, I'm sure it is not an obligation free trial, considering the parties involved in the production of the vehicle.
ST Kinetics is currently in talks with two bus operators about running trials for the buses.
The Straits Times understands they are SMRT Corp and Brickston Transport, a company whose main business is ferrying factory workers.
ST Kinetics hopes to convince the two firms of the buses' viability during the trial, and hopes they will order more such coaches in futureI read the article one more time. The tone that the reporter had set appears to be that the question is not whether the trials would be held, but whether more buses would be purchased. The terms might just be similar to how STK offered 8031 to SBS Transit for a year.
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Originally posted by Yusry:
I assume this reply is not in reference to my reply, but just a knowledge nibble with no relation to my reply.
Linguistically, a hybrid-electric does not make sense in this context.
Hybrid by itself means two or more *something* combination. So a hybrid-electric logically means at least three or more *something* combination of which one is 'electric'.
Where the system is a parallel or series or parallel-series hybrid, the term hybrid-electric is still wrong.
-wrong post-
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Wrong entry
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Hopefully SBST can bring in the Volvo B5L hybrid soon.
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Originally posted by Basiling:
However Kinglong's hybrid bus is poor than those service in Big Bird Airport (羽田空港), Japan
It's not called Big Bird Airport la. It's Haneda Airport in the outskirts of Tokyo. It's mainly for Domestic flights.
If I'm not wrong Hybrid buses reuses some of the braking power and convert into energy for the bus.