Ipswich set to trial electric driverless shuttle buses
By Administrator | 28 February 2018
A French company that has developed and launched driverless electric shuttle buses in 20 countries will next week trial their driverless electric mini-bus at Springfield near Ipswich.
This follows trials along the Esplanade at Mooloolaba in December 2017 and their introduction at big business sites in California and Singapore in 2015.
They have also been trialled in Canberra and Darwin.
Overseas, the fully electric vehicles are used on airports and on large commercial sites to shift employees around the work sites.
Each shuttle costs about $320,000 but can carry 12 people – six seated, six standing – up to 45km/h.
When fully charged they can run for 14 hours from their lithium-ion battery, which charges overnight in eight hours.
They have no steering wheel and use sensors on each corner to “read” the roadway, objects in front, back or beside the vehicle.
The company is called EasyMile, which was put together in 2014 and now has launched driverless shuttle buses in the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East, North America and Europe. Read more
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