Gyrobus
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A gyrobus is an electric bus that uses flywheel energy storage, not overhead wires like a trolleybus. The name comes from the Greek language term for flywheel, gyros. There are no gyrobuses currently
Gyrobus G3 (built in 1955), the only surviving gyrobus in the world in the Flemish tramway and bus museum, Antwerp
Loading up the flywheel with three-phase charging
Loading up the flywheel
Interior of the Gyrobus G3 (front)
Trolleybus
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A trolleybus is an electric bus that draws power from dual overhead lines using spring-loaded or pneumatically raised trolley poles. Two wires, and two trolley poles, are required to complete the elec
Gyrobus
…A gyrobus is an electric bus that uses flywheel energy storage, not overhead wires like a trolleybus. The name comes from the Greek language term for flywheel, gyros. There are no gyrobuses currently in use commercially. The concept of a flywheel-powered…
A Sunwin trolleybus in Shanghai, on the world's oldest operating trolleybus system
Solaris trolleybus on the Arnhem trolleybus system in the Netherlands
New Flyer trolleybus in San Francisco
The Elektromote, the world's first trolleybus, in Berlin, Germany, 1882