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During the last years, the issue of the conversion of city diesel buses into the electric buses has become significant to address reduction of the fossil fuel dependency of the transportation sector as well as creation of a healthier urban environment and lowering the impact on climate change This is the evidence made by several recent sources of information, such as Lightning Systems, a global developer of zero-emission solutions for commercial fleets to repower diesel buses with battery-electric systems. An important step ahead of us is the state of California, where much attention has been devoted to electric vehicles for a long time and has been providing significant financial support for many years [1, 2].
This paper represents the methodology and results of technical and economic analysis applied for testing developed technology of diesel bus conversion into electric bus. It compares and summarizes the initial obtained results from theoretical technical and economic mathematical models with those obtained experimentally by testing created electric bus on the dynamometer test bench, on the testing track and under real conditions on the specified urban public transport routes.
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The paper is based on the research that has been conducted in the framework of the project No. 1.1.1.1/16/A/267 “Development of economically justified technology of conversion of the traditional diesel city bus into the environmentally friendly electrobus” funded from the ERDF.
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Kamolins, E., Gorobetz, M., Malnaca, K., Korneyev, A. (2020). Analysis of Test Results for Developed Technology of Diesel Bus Conversion into Electric Bus. In: Kabashkin, I., Yatskiv, I., Prentkovskis, O. (eds) Reliability and Statistics in Transportation and Communication. RelStat 2019. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 117. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44610-9_37
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