Where is this bus now?

• Lee Teuk

  27 Nov 11, 20:20

  http://news.omy.sg/News/Local%2BNews/Story/OMYStory201012270403-210259.html

  i remember the chinese newspapers said last year that SBST is trialling this King Long hybrid electric bus from middle of 2011 onwards. Its going to be december already how come there's still no news? or SBST has changed their minds already?

  

  picture taken from the internet

• Gus.chong

  27 Nov 11, 21:30

  Originally posted by Lee Teuk:

  http://news.omy.sg/News/Local%2BNews/Story/OMYStory201012270403-210259.html

  i remember the chinese newspapers said last year that SBST is trialling this King Long hybrid electric bus from middle of 2011 onwards. Its going to be december already how come there's still no news? or SBST has changed their minds already?

  

  picture taken from the internet

  Not sure. But there was another King Long hybrid bus used by SBS Transit during the Youth Olympic Games in August 2010.

• SBS8533C

  27 Nov 11, 23:15

  Originally posted by Gus.chong:

  Not sure. But there was another King Long hybrid bus used by SBS Transit during the Youth Olympic Games in August 2010.

  
  Are you referring to another King Long Model used by SBST / NTU? If you are referring to it, that is RD6066L. Still inside its resting place inside NTU area.

• SMB66X

  28 Nov 11, 13:35

  Originally posted by Lee Teuk:

  http://news.omy.sg/News/Local%2BNews/Story/OMYStory201012270403-210259.html

  i remember the chinese newspapers said last year that SBST is trialling this King Long hybrid electric bus from middle of 2011 onwards. Its going to be december already how come there's still no news? or SBST has changed their minds already?

  

  picture taken from the internet

  If  I am not wrong, this is for SMRT.

• Gus.chong

  28 Nov 11, 20:24

  Originally posted by SMB66X:

  If  I am not wrong, this is for SMRT.

  Where is this bus currently then?

• SBS8873X

  28 Nov 11, 20:44

  Originally posted by Gus.chong:

  Where is this bus currently then?

  WLDEP?

• Gus.chong

  28 Nov 11, 21:25

  Originally posted by SBS8873X:

  WLDEP?

  Nobody knows.

• SBS 1000U

  28 Nov 11, 22:38

  Think the bus is not suitable and realiable for both operators. Luckily that SBST didn't use it.

• no display name

  28 Nov 11, 23:38

  i started a thread on this last year. this bus was sent to china for an exhibition earlier this year and was carrying a Singapore-registered license plate. no idea where is it now

  http://www.hkbf.org/t389841.htm

• Darkness_hacker99

  29 Nov 11, 00:24

  I am not too sure if it's helpful but I saw a similar design bus like the above picture.. It's used as a transportation for a medical company in west side. Not too sure what's the company name, but the uniform is blue color.

  What makes me notice is LED display~

• ^tamago^

  3 Dec 11, 11:46

  http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_740772.html

  Singapore's first hydrogen-electric bus, which once ferried athletes around the Youth Olympic Games Village, now sits in a corner of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) awaiting conversion into a fully electric bus.

  In another trial, public transport operator SMRT tested a diesel-electric bus for six months this year, but decided not to bring in more because it was not fuel-efficient enough.

  There was another hybrid-bus trial that a private transport operator had planned to conduct last year, but that too hit the skids.

  A year on, the results of the first hybrid-bus trials here are a mixed bag.

  These hybrid buses, tried on an ad-hoc basis by individual firms, were intended as a means of saving fuel.

  Copyright © 2011 Singapore Press Holdings Ltd.

• sbst275

  3 Dec 11, 11:50

  That NTU bus is rotting alrdy with pang por (those canvas) covering the roof.

• Bus Stopping

  3 Dec 11, 20:07

  "awaiting conversion into a fully electric bus."

  !?

• no display name

  3 Dec 11, 21:31

  the straits times said that NTU had tested the hydrogen-electric bus by driving from Jurong to Changi and back, as well as around campus and found no problems with the technology. the only area of concern was cost. the bus is now awaiting conversion to a fully electric bus by adding more batteries and changing the control systems.

  As for the 2 SBST diesel-electric buses, SBST said the buses have travelled more than 10,000km so far. But they are still gathering data and have yet to come to a conclusion.

• sbst275

  4 Dec 11, 13:29

  Anyway, NTU has dismantled the hydrogen cell pumping station

• Merczrox

  9 Dec 11, 18:58

  Originally posted by no display name:

  the straits times said that NTU had tested the hydrogen-electric bus by driving from Jurong to Changi and back, as well as around campus and found no problems with the technology. the only area of concern was cost. the bus is now awaiting conversion to a fully electric bus by adding more batteries and changing the control systems.

  As for the 2 SBST diesel-electric buses, SBST said the buses have travelled more than 10,000km so far. But they are still gathering data and have yet to come to a conclusion.

  
  They referring to the 2 sunlongs ah??

• Merczrox

  9 Dec 11, 19:08

  Originally posted by SBS 1000U:

  Think the bus is not suitable and realiable for both operators. Luckily that SBST didn't use it.

  
  Yeah thats why lucky ah.