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1891年10月2日，两位年轻的电气工程师Charles Brown和Walter Boveri在瑞士巴登用自己的名字创办了布朗勃法瑞公司（BBC），他们坚信电力技术的发展将引领一个新时代。作为ABB的前身，BBC以惊人的速度成功实现了这一愿景，并将电力技术应用在早期的铁路行业。 On October 2, 1891, Charles Brown and Walter Boveri created a start-up named BBC, in Baden, Switzerland, to tap the opportunities of a promising new technology – electricity. It was the groundwork for a global power and automation company, now known as ABB, that has put technical innovation at the heart of its business.
125年后，ABB已经成为了全球领先电力和自动化技术领域企业，业务遍布全球近百个国家。为庆祝公司诞生125周年，ABB开启了一次开创性技术之旅，从多个方面和角度，用实实在在的事实，全面讲述了ABB 致力于为电力、工业、交通和基础设施客户提供解决方案，帮助客户提高生产效率和能源效率，同时降低对环境的不良影响的真实故事。 ABB, through its predecessor BBC, has a 125 year unbroken record of engineering excellence in Switzerland. Groundbreaking achievements made by ABB have shaped the world today, from gas-insulated switchgear to turbochargers. To celebrate its 125th anniversary, ABB launched a trip with the theme of technology and innovation to show it deploys its resources to improve technologies in power, transportation, manufacturing and infrastructure to help clients save operational costs and power to prove efficiency and environmental impact. On the morning of September 30 in Geneva, Switzerland, a bus with the logo of TOSA is approaching with 18 reporters from China onboard. Their e-bus journey in the city is a part of ABB’s 125-year anniversary trip that features technological innovation. 如果不细心观察，乘客会认为这是一辆普通的公交车，其实这辆闪充式公交车的秘密就在车顶。 Indeed, first impression matters the most, just looks like a regular trolleybus, except when you look on the roof. 在大巴车进站的同时，车顶上的一只充电臂自动升起来，在1 秒钟的时间，对接上车站顶部的充电桩，电流迅疾充入车顶的电池组，充好后，连杆快速拔出，这一过程只是“滴答”15秒的时间。 With the world’s fastest flash-charging connection technology it takes less than 1 second to connect the bus to the charging point. The onboard batteries can then be charged in 15 seconds with a 600-kilowatt boost of power at the bus stop. 不言而喻，在瑞士这个分秒必争的国家，精准的时间就是竞争优势。 There is no doubt that precise timing is one big advantage in Switzerland where every second counts. TOSA是新型无轨电动公交系统的英文缩写，车身全长18.75米，早在 2013 年 5 月至2014年底，这辆载客133人的 TOSA 闪充式公交车就已经开始试运营了，线路是从日内瓦机场到 Palexpo 国际展览中心之间的第23路，ABB集团在沿途13个车站提供了15秒闪存充电电站。 TOSA (Trolleybus Optimisation System Alimentation) is a zero-carbon-emission solution as the electricity used comes entirely from clean hydro power. The first articulated bus (18m75 length) for 133 passengers ran under real-life operating conditions from May 2013 to end 2014 on a route from Geneva’s airport (terminus) to the nearby Palexpo exhibition centre (flash-charging station). ABB delivers and deploys 13 flash-charging stations along the bus route, as well as three terminal and four depot feeding stations. 我们通过一个小视频来了解一下ABB集团的TOSA闪充式公交车。 如今，在城市可持续发展的挑战中，人们对公交系统所提出的要求不仅是将人从一个点平安送到下一个点，还包括降低二氧化碳排放，降低噪音，增加能源效率，以及控制投资和运营成本。 Nowadays, people’s demand on public transportation no longer focus on sending them from one site to another site. Silence, flexibility and zero-emissions, as well as lowering operational cost, are increasingly important to urban mass transportation systems.
Instead of the usual trolley poles to overhead lines, this e-bus has a controlled moving arm that connects, in less than a second, to an overhead receptacle integrated into the bus shelter. The flash-charging technology feeds the onboard batteries for 15 seconds as passengers are getting on and off the bus. The bus wastes no time and is ready to leave. The TOSA e-buses can help save as much as 1,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year, when compared with existing diesel buses. ABB125周年庆典之旅，精彩未完待续…… ABB’s 125-year anniversary trip, to be continued… |
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