Talk:Gyrobus

This article appears as if it was written by someone for whom English is a second language and thus should be rewritten so it makes more sense by someone knowledgeable on the topic. --Cab88 22:35, 10 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The article reads much better now. I will remove the cleanup tag. --Cab88 20:07, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

So where's the flywheel? A diagram would be nice.--84.188.149.171 02:20, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Weight, a bus which can carry 20 persons and has radius of 20 km, must carry a flywheel which weighs 3 t." What? Radius of 20km must be one big-ass bus. 3t? 3 tons? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.168.71.168 (talk) 18:35, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"compared to between 2.0 kWh/km and 2.4 kWh/km for much larger trams" where have these values come from? common values seen for a modern tram are more in the range 1.5 kwh/vehicle/km to 1.8 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.73.161.130 (talk) 16:23, 15 April 2008 (UTC) "compared to between 2.0 kWh/km and 2.4 kWh/km for much larger trams" I am also interested in this figure, according to my calculations and using the equation T = I^alpha to calculate the amount of power needed to bring the flywheel up to its rotational speed of 3000 rpm, around 78,500 Nm of power is needed, this is not even 0.02 Kwh, so in actual fact the idea of a flywheel bus was brilliant, maybe the company was adding on the costs for maintenance, there were frequent breakdowns, while coming up with this figure. The rough estimate of 78,500 Nm can be further checked out by the time given for each charge which for a full charge was around 3 minutes at 380 Volts, which seems to correspond with the power needed to charge up the flywheel to 3000 rpm. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.1.218.143 (talk) 01:34, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Identical text, even duplicating a misspelling[edit]

The text on this page that discusses gyrobuses surely seems to come from <http://citytransport.info/Electbus.htm>. (Footnote [1]) On this page, I took the "s" out of "Leopoldsville". Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems that credit should have been given. Nikevich (talk) 07:06, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not a gyrobus?[edit]

". The second successful vehicle was the Capabus, which ran at the Expo 2010 in Shanghai. It was charged with electricity at the stops - just like the Gyrobus was. But the Capabus didn't store the energy in a flywheel. It used capacitors."

Soo...how is this an example of a gyrobus? --StarChaser Tyger (talk) 12:26, 23 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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