Charging electric buses in the city was a logistical problem

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A line of electric city buses in London has joined recharging via pantograph . It serves as a charging station and is placed at the headers, which allows the buses to charge while providing service, allowing frequencies not to vary or requiring larger fleets to be used. At the moment, this system has been installed on line 132 , whose route is about 16 km linking North Greenwich with Bexleyheath. But the goal is for it to extend to more lines next year. The British capital is not the first to resort to this system: in Spain we find it in Barcelona, ​​where it was launched this year on two of its lines, the H12 and the V15 . And in Madrid a pilot project is already being developed using this technology. The same was previously done in Zaragoza. Continuing with the examples, in Rotterdam (Netherlands), electric buses also operate integrating this system.

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A pantograph as a charging station . On the contrary, the system that London has now launched, and present in other cities such as those mentioned as an example, has chosen to place the charging stations only at the headwaters. In fact, on London 132 it is only in one of them: the one in the Bexleyheath shopping centre. While, for example, in Barcelona it has been decided to locate two, each at the ends of the line. Conceived by the firm EO Charging and like those in Barcelona and Rotterdam, this station uses an inverted pantograph . That is, the same technology that trains, trolleybuses or trams equip on the roof, but attached to a huge articulated arm. Inverted pantograph in Barcelona The inverted pantograph on one of Barcelona's power lines It adheres to the roof of the electric vehicle, charging its battery for 10 minutes . And in that time, it fills enough charge so that it can travel the entire route, round trip, until the next recharge.