Fast charge and local public transport: An italian experience

This paper describes the research effort on fast charge, carried out by the PBI project, promoted and funded in the framework of the program “Industria 2015”, by the Italian Ministry for Industry. In more detail, i) describes past experiences and state of art for the public transport sector ii) discusses the Zero-Filobus concept and its application to the PBI project iii) expounds design considerations on an integral AC battery charger for the case study; iiii) describes the high power (150 kW) charging station and the experimentation results.