Several months after its design was unveiled to the public, China’s massive elevated bus concept is now real.
The 4.8-meter-high (15.75-foot) electric bus has its carriage elevated off the ground, allowing what appears to be two lanes of cars to pass under it.
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The Chinese government showed on Tuesday a prototype running on the roads in the port city of Qinhuangdao, that will be part of a pilot trial to run for the next few months.
If successful, the vehicle will add a mode of mass transit to many of China’s congested cities. Since it’s elevated, it is meant to make minimal disruption to road traffic, and comes without the additional cost of laying infrastructure that a subway system would require. Read more…
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