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Running Test of Contactwire‐less Tramcar Using Lithium Ion Battery
Author(s) -
Ozawa Hironori,
Ogihara Takashi
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
ieej transactions on electrical and electronic engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.254
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1931-4981
pISSN - 1931-4973
DOI - 10.1002/tee.20279
Subject(s) - battery (electricity) , lithium (medication) , voltage , lithium ion battery , lithium battery , watt , ion , electrical engineering , automotive engineering , engineering , medicine , chemistry , power (physics) , physics , thermodynamics , organic chemistry , ionic bonding
Abstract The basic specification of lithium ion battery‐type tramcar was established using DC600V‐type tramcar with a weight of 40 t. Forty five kilo Watt hour of manganese‐type lithium ion battery was used. The running test was carried out for the first time in Japan in the business line. The relation between running time and voltage, current and integrating watt was investigated in detail. The tramcar was run when the lithium ion battery module was discharged between 660 and 480 V. On one charge, the tramcar could run for about 25 km. The mileage of contactwire‐less tramcar improved two times that of tramcar. The running performance of contactwire‐less tramcar was equivalent to the tramcar. Copyright © 2008 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.