TOSA Flash Mobility, Clean City, Smart Bus

Power Supply”. It originally stood for Transports Publics Genevois, Office de la Promotion Industrielle, Services Industriels de Genève and ABB Group, the four partners of the demonstrator project TOSA2013[1]

3 The technical concept

The energy is collected along the route at some dedicated bus stops (every 3rd or 4th bus stops) while people are disembarking and embarking. Thus, there is no impact on the timetable. The automatic electric connection is made TOSA Energy Transfer System from the top within 1 second while the bus is stopped at the bus stop. Than charging is made at high power (400 The TOSA concept and test bus is a full large capacity kW on the demonstrator) during the 15 seconds the door urban battery electric bus system developed in Geneva by remains open. At the terminal, the battery is topped up ABB Sécheron, a subsidiary of the ABB Group. within 3–4 minutes.

1 Aim of the concept and project 4 The infrastructure

The aim is to provide a zero local emission mass public According to the line profile (total length and altitude) transportation bus system with high passenger capacity and service (frequency), the Flash Feeding Station (FFS) and no overhead line. are distributed along the line at some (each 3rd or 4th bus The concept supports same operating timetable and fre- stops - roughly 1.5–2 km) intermediate bus stops. At each quency as line operated with diesel buses, trolleybuses end of the line, the recharge is performed by the Terminal and operating conditions of Bus Rapid Transit systems. Feeding Station (TFS). The following aspects have been considered to comply with a sustainable mobility approach: • FFS: The Flash Feeding sub-Stations are provided with energy storage to shave the peak of power on • Minimise use of raw material throughout the life cy- the grid required to charge the bus at the interme- cle: lithium-titanate battery technology has been se- diate bus stops. As power is limited by the energy lected accordingly. storage, the sub-station is connection to the low volt- age grid. • Energy efficiency: High passenger capacity, low vehicle weight (small battery), conductive energy • TFS: The Terminal Feeding Sub-Stations is used to transfer and grid connection with peak shaving. charge the bus at the terminal. • Safety and health: Low emission of radiation Non- • DFS: The Depot Feeding Sub-Stations are used to ionizing radiation during energy transfer at bus compensate the energy required by the bus from De- stops (conductive connection) and battery technol- pot to the line of service ogy; zero local emission of particles; low noise; small visual impact. 5 Demonstrator (Proof-of- 2 Origin of name Concept)

TOSA is an acronym for "Trolleybus Optimisation du Sys- The demonstrator (one articulated bus, one Flash charg- tème d'Alimentation", French for “Trolleybus Optimized ing station and one terminal station) is in service since

1 2 7 REFERENCES

• Video - OFEN Des bus électriques rechargeables en 15 secondes (French) • Bus Technical Data (French)

• D’ici trois ans, les bus TOSA rouleront sur la ligne 23 (French)

7 References

[1] http://www.enerzine.com/1036/15865/ TOSA Bus at PALEXPO mise-en-service-dun-bus-electrique-qui-se-recharge-en-15-secondes. html May 26, 2013 between Geneva Airport and PALEXPO. [2] TOSA2013 The project aims to introduce a new system It includes: of mass transport with electric “flash” recharging of the buses at selected stops (overhead conductive charging) • one articulated bus of 18.7meters-long and homolo- gation for 133 passengers. The bus manufacturer is the company HESS

• one TFS of 200 kW at the Airport of Geneva

• one FFS of 400 kW at PALEXPO

• one DFS of 50 kW at the depot Bachet-de-Pesay

Partners

• Bus operator: tpg,

• Project coordinator: OPI

• Energy supplier: OPI

• Technology provider: ABB

Other partners

• Bus manufacturer: HESS

• Architecture design: hepia

• Engineering Software: epfl, HE-Arc

• Financing: Canton of Geneva, Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE, Federal roads office FEDRO

• Land: PALEXPO

6 External links

• Photographs of TOSA during UITP 2013

• TOSA2013 Project in Geneva

• ABB TOSA Flash Mobility, Clean City, Smart Bus[2]

• Video - Flash charging an electric bus in 15 seconds 3

8 Text and image sources, contributors, and licenses

8.1 Text

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