Hyundai Motor of Korea announces EVC bus "Elec City" that can run 170 km with charging for 30 minutes

Hyundai Motor (Hyundai), Korea's leading car, runs on battery EV bus "Elec CityWe announced. This bus is capable of running 170 km distance with just 30 minutes of charge and will be launched in 2018 and will start running on the road.

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Elec City is an EV bus announced at "Hyundai Truck & Bus Mega Fair" held from 27th to 28th May 2017. With a battery of 256 kWh, it can fully charge with 67 minutes of charge, and it is possible to run a distance of 290 km at the longest time with one charge.


As a bus running battery, developed by American Proterra Company "Catalyst E2"Is equipped with the ability to run about 560 km with one charge. Compared to this, it is felt that the mileage is short Elec City, but from the mileage as the assumed "route bus", instead of installing heavy batteries blindly, it has the optimum performance for the application It seems to be said that there is.

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At the time of announcement, it seems that a state of charge using a charger was also made public. If you carry out fast charging, you will be able to run 170 km with charging time of 30 minutes or so, so it will be quite realistic to use it as a bus route running around the city.


Hyundai plans to release Elec City in 2018 and start delivering cars, which means that we already have about 10 reservations accepted.