Motoized_Wheels_On_Buses

Motoized Wheels On Buses MOTORIZED WHEELS ON BUSES E-Traction, based in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands just built a bus in which motor and wheel are one. The company has modified a city bus as a diesel-electric hybrid. Just reading this small article from The New York Times did not convince me so I checked out their website at www.etraction.com and found “The Wheel™” as they call it. The automotive pioneer Ferdinand Porsche first advanced the idea of a wheel-motor more than a century ago. Although indigenous skills and achievements are an indispensable part of technological advance, no technologically dynamic nation has ever been isolated from the influences of other lands. Continued technological advance requires an infusion of ideas, tools, and materials from other places, coupled with an ability to make good use of them. Many companies have tried to popularize a wheel-motor, and a few are currently producing them but none are in production to the extent of e-traction. By looking at this company we can see the importance of the slow, unspectacular improvements that turn a good idea into a working product. There is a substantial outpouring of money into research and development that has gone into papering new, wheel-motor, technology, just, development, years, technological, suited, production, engine, company, buses, bus, whisper, wheels, website, trucks, transportation, thing, thewheel™, sm700, sm500, research, product, out, one, motor, make, looking, introduction, introduced, improvements, idea, good, first