Newton Fund - Development of Smart Electronically Controlled Hybrid Energy Recovery Systems for Buses and Electric Vehicles

减少二氧化碳和其他公共汽车排放的最简单的方法是使用更少的燃料和减少小型汽车的排量。Vulcanaer系统通过收集制动能量并将其存储为压缩空气以供后续使用，从而减少城市公交车和电动汽车的燃料使用。Vulcanaer是一种改造技术，因此可以很容易地应用于旧巴士，巴士车队运营商可以在没有政府补贴的情况下使用。借助新开发的电子控制，该项目的目标是通过应用于印度的城市公交车并在真实的公交线路上运行数周来确认燃油节省-预计为5- 10%。该技术还将应用于小型电动汽车，以改善牵引力控制，并提供具有成本效益的冷空气供应，以取代更昂贵和能源密集型的空调。如果成功的话，该项目将减少每一辆安装了它的公交车和电动汽车的燃料消耗，从而降低用户和运营商的成本，并为印度（以及英国）带来新的制造业就业机会，并为城市清洁空气做出真实的贡献。

The simplest way to reduce carbon dioxide and other emissions from buses is to use less fuel and to electrify small passgener cars. The Vulcanaer system reduces fuel usage in urban buses & electric vehicles by harvesting braking energy and storing it as compressed air for subsequent use. Vulcanaer is a retrofit technology so can easily be applied to older buses and can be used by bus fleet operators with no government subsidy. With the aid of the newly developed electronic control, the project aim is to confirm fuel savings- expected to be 5-10%, through application to an urban bus in India and running it on a real, bus route for several weeks. The technology will also be applied to the small electric vehicles to improve the traction control and provide a cost effective cool air supply in place of more expensive and energy intensive air conditioning. If successful, the project will reduce fuel usage for every single bus and electric vehicle it is installed on, and so reduce costs to users and operators, and lead to new manufacturing jobs in India (and potentially in the UK) and provide a real contribution to cleaner air in cities.