KAMAZ presented Russia’s first ultra-fast charging station for electric buses

6 June 2017, Tuesday

The presentation of the Russia’s first ultra-fast charging station for electric buses took place at the Skolkovo Innovation Centre today, on June 6. A novelty product created by the Russian engineering company Drive Electro was presented by experts of KAMAZ.

A new charging station makes it possible to recharge the energy consumed along the route between two end stops in just six minutes. As a result, an electric bus can travel more than 300 kilometres a day. The charging station is unique in its compactness and opportunity of connecting to alternating or direct current grids (for instance, to a trolleybus one) and charging an electric bus in the automatic mode, without driver involvement.

The electric bus is equipped with the most advanced lithium-titanate batteries and belongs to the second generation of electric buses. The advantages of such batteries are in the fact that they are the only ones successfully being charged and operated at low temperatures, with a range varying from -45ºC to +40ºC. The battery is designed for at least 20,000 full DOD cycles, resulting in more than 15 years of intense operation. Moreover, the lithium-titanate batteries are fast chargeable without losing its resource. A KAMAZ-Drive Electro bus provides a life-cycle contract, and a battery warranty of over 8 years.

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