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Korea selects e-Traction for electric bus transport
- press statement -
Apeldoorn - e-Traction expects Korea to manufacture about 2,000 city buses for electric transport in Korea for the next few years. As a start an order of 5 prototype buses has been booked by the Apeldoorn producer of wheel hub motors. The intention is to make a radical transition to electric city transport in Korea possible.
Last week e-Traction (www.e-traction.eu) received a Korean delegation which is involved in this project, supported by a Korean TV group. The order is placed by JS Engineering based on an agreement with ‘Korea Green Growth’, an initiative of the government of Korea to stimulate green grow.
TheWhisper
The Korean interest is an actual result of the electric buses, driving in the city of Apeldoorn in the Netherlands. In the so called Whisper project (www.thewhisper.nl) public transport company Veolia uses electric buses of e-Traction in active service for citizens. The energy company Eneco is also partner in this project, which receives also support of the province of Gelderland, the City Council of Apeldoorn and the national Ministry of Traffic and Transport.
The city transport in Seoul will – just like Veolia in Apeldoorn – make use of e-Traction’s wheelhub motor, which makes it possible to drive completely emission free over long distances.
2000 buses till 2014
Still this year e-Traction will equip 2 Korean buses in Holland with TheWheel system (electric motor and battery package). Besides this, Korean mechanics will receive a specific education on how to assemble the buses on location in Apeldoorn.
Next year another 3 buses will be converted in Korea and additional Korean mechanics will be educated. The intention is to annually convert 500 vehicles per year in Seoul from 2011 until 2014, totally about 2000 city buses. To be capable of supplying a large amount of electric motors, e-Traction made a cooperation agreement with the German producer of electric motors Ziehl-Abegg (www.ziehl-abegg.com).
Direct drive
The order forms a mile-stone for the revolutionary invention of e-Traction. It means for the hubwheel motor the breakthrough to large scale production. Aside public transport company Veolia in Apeldoorn, the public transport company RET in Rotterdam will also equip VDL-city buses with TheWheel technique (NEMS-project) in the first half of the year 2010. Because of the direct drive in the rear wheels the CO2 emission will be strongly limited (more than 50 %), is it possible to drive a couple of hours completely emission free and drives the bus almost silently (90 % more quietly than a normal bus).
Green Growth
Korea’s choice for electric city transport is coming from the recent embrace by the Korean government of an active ‘green policy’ (Green Growth). For the next 5 years 84.5 bln $ (2 % of the Korean bruto national product) shall be used to make the national economy more durable. The objective is to make clear and distinct choice of in favour of alternative ways of energy (wind, water, sun) and to stimulate electric transport (buses, cars).
About e-Traction
e-Traction, located in the city of Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, is an engineering company and developer of electric drive systems for the transport sector. Her most important innovation is the hubwheel motor called TheWheel, which is significantly more economical, cleaner and more quiet than any existent hybrid direct drive.