Autobus with four minutes recharges at the ends of the line

Standard electric buses use battery energy storage for all the day long and night charges. The high energy imposes high weight, volume and cost with impact on bus performances and a long return of investment. Another solution is buses with ultracapacitors with a fast charge station at each bus stop, but with a huge infrastructure cost. The ElLiSup project is based on a small battery, to be light and to have a limited cost, and a fast charge but only at the ends of the buses lines, or at nodal points. The goal of the presentation is to detail the concept, the prototypes of buses (an plug-in hybrid one with fast charge and the electric one with four minutes recharges at the ends of the line) and the charge station.