Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Electric Buses — Opportunity for Wireless (Inductive) Charging

Question: Who first discovered that the flow of electricity induces a current in a nearby circuit?

Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.

Relevance: Bermuda just announced its new fleet of all-electric buses. More specifically:

Yesterday, Bermuda launched the first of 30 electric buses into service on the island, comprising a third of its public bus fleet! The transition will save the island $10 million over the buses’ lifetime.

Once the entire fleet is electrified, the electric buses will avoid emissions equal to removing at least 1,500 cars from the roads per year.

BTW, it’s conceivable that our consulting work for Bermuda in the EV space had something to do with this.

Reader “Brian” notes: They should talk to Momentum Dynamics about wireless charging. My friends still work there. I just recommended they go to this event on electric transportation.

My work was at least 10 years ago, I’m afraid I no longer have contacts there.

Glad to see they’re still working on it; inductive charging definitely has a future in electric transportation.

Btw, Brian, do you know who first discovered that an electrical current induces a current in a nearby circuit?

Brian: Faraday? Gauss?

Not bad guesses, or Gausses.

But it was …. see Clean Energy Answers.