Number 38 in the Clean Air Technologies Series.
Electric motors are used extensively. They’re in everything from electric drills and shavers to lawnmowers and buses, cars and trains. The sky is the limit.
That these are used in the railway realm is nothing new. What is new, on the other hand, is the way in which power is delivered to these motors in railway applications – we’re talking “wirelessly,” here.
The French company Alstom, has unveiled its Citadis X05 Light Rail Vehicle or LRV.
The company in “Alstom delivers world’s first Citadis X05 Light Rail Vehicle to Sydney, Australia,” an Aug. 1, 2017 press
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