Prototyping and Preliminary Testing of a Revamped Electric Bus with a Fast Recharge System

A fast and reliable recharge of the electric public transportation system is a fundamental prerequisite for extended electrification and decarbonization of public transportation systems. As a part of continuous research cooperation, authors have proposed and tested different fast recharge technologies that have been tested on the fleet of electrical Minibus from TecnoBus. In this way, different recharge technologies are compared on identical vehicles with power management systems that are customized and revamped for the testing of a specific technology that must be tested on the vehicle. In this work, the authors focus their attention on the testing of highpower hybrid lithium Titanate cells that can support repeated fast recharge cycles that are performed using a recharge station powered by a flywheel storage system. In this preliminary work, it’s presented the design and integration of the on-board storage system on the benchmark vehicle and its preliminary testing at ENEA Casaccia research center in Rome, Italy.