middle east

[Mike O'Dell]

the version i've seen has the shaft of the flywheel in the vertical axis.
i believe it was integrated with the gearbox with various whizzing metal things
with teeth pushing each other around.
	-mo


Andre Kesteloot wrote:
> Iain McFadyen wrote:
> 
>> Many buses in Europe use regenerative braking, but mindful of the battery
>> losses, they later started switching to regerative braking combined with
>> kinetic storage systems, where the energy was stored in a quarter ton
>> flywheel.
>>
>> Iain
>>
> Indeed then flywheel itself introduced problems when the trolleybuses 
> wanted to make a turn....
> André
>