Hi,
I have been now over one year doing engineering the world`s best electric bus Linkkerbus.
Linkkerbus uses aluminum body which makes it about 3000 kg lighter (own weigth about 9500 kg) than similar size steel buses weight. In city driving the lightweight is crucial to get good efficiency. Lighter weight means also more payload or paying customers and less tire, brakes and other components wear in use. That leads cheaper running costs and more profits to the operator.
Linkkerbus gets 0.7 kWh/km efficiency levels which is 0.3 kWh/km better what the next best electric buses are able to reach at the moment. Now the real tweaking can soon begin to improve the efficiency even better. Much of that comes from the lightweight body but also the power train is optimized for best efficiency. -Regular diesel buses reach 3.0 kWh/km
Bus is designed so that it can be fast charged at the final station and it can run continuously on the line. Current charge times are under 5 minutes
So far we have sold buses to Helsinki, Copenhagen and Turku.
ABOUT - LINKKER
Video of the current conversion bus in action.
Feel free to ask anything and I try to answer what is possible at the time. many new things are coming to push the efficiency levels to something that has never been seen before in the bus industry.