Old school meets high-tech in the Smooth Win Mover (SWIMO), a battery-powered streetcar set for deployment in Japan in 2007. Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) is developing the SWIMO and the nickel ...

Incidentally, battery-operated buses (BEBs) consume energy to the tune of 0.67 kWh/km, about 40 times more than a tram. Thinking of the net-zero carbon emission target,BEBs have been adopted in ...