All aboard!

• Autores: Mick Hamer
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3142, 2017, págs. 35-37
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The future of electric vehicles seemed assured. The bus, with its fixed routes and hence predictable demands on batteries, seemed a very promising application. If battery power proved its worth here, then other uses would surely take off. And London, the world's largest city and center of the British Empire, had a track record of setting global trends in technology, so there would be ripples around the world. Yet, in little more than two years, the electrobus was abandoned in favour of the combustion engine--and people are still suffering the consequences. Here, Hamer discovers what robbed people of the opportunity.