Electric-bus routes in hilly urban areas: Overview and challenges

The electrification of public transport in cities is expanding, and fully electric buses (EBs) show great promise because their high energy efficiency. We present the state art for electric-bus-related technologies, taking a closer look at influence route's topography climate on battery demands. Included brief overview EB routes Europe, which reveals lack very demanding benchmark routes, where new technologies from perspective seamless driving difficult conditions could be tested. trial set up many allow testing under variety conditions; however, there still need located challenging environments with some sections. suggest new, demanding, hilly route that provides means technical evaluation urban-transport geographically specific area particularly conditions. • Introducing requires extensive routes. There city buses. challenges urban are presented terms A challenging, proposed.