Economy. For years, evocative images circulated, and now the shown up in China – the “straddling bus,” supposed to revolutionize public transport. But the giant vehicle surrounded by question marks.
It stretches across the road, but at the same time takes up almost no space at all. And with a passenger capacity of up to 1400 people makes it all the other trams and buses in the shade. Computer Animations of the “straddling bus” has aroused the curiosity around the world for nearly ten years, and this week showed the manufacturer Teb Tech up Teb-1, a rolling prototype in Qinhuangdao in northern China.
As the future of transport is the of course fully electrically. It adds itself as a lid over other traffic, with only slim legs on the sides that roll on rails in the roadway edges.
Attracts savers
But the AFP news agency reports of widespread skepticism in the Chinese debate prototype has aroused. The clumsy construction learns it difficult both to turn and meet height requirements in many world cities, noted in the English-language newspaper the Global Times.
And in both the newspaper and in other Beijing media cited a risk that the project can be a way to attract inexperienced and arrogant small investors. According to the Global Times powered Tebs bets via the web-based crowdfunding, but only a fraction of the billions of yuan that flowed in has been translated into concrete results.
The promised returns, 10-20 percent, are also considered by the Chinese business press as a suspect high.
for more next year
AFP has requested access to the prototype, but received no response. The news agency also think it is strange that the prototype in a published video barely crawling along.
But Teb turn down.
– The main purpose this time was to check how the electric drive works for these vehicles, so Teb-1 was run only briefly, said spokesman Song Youzhou according to the Global Times.
according to Song bigger test drives begin in Zhoukou city in the next year.
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