23–26 Sept 2024
Leipzig, Germany
Europe/Berlin timezone
Welcome to the 2024 T2M Conference – we hope you find the sessions inspiring and the connections invaluable.

Session

Electric Sparks: New and old perspectives of Electric Buses and Trolleybuses

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24 Sept 2024, 09:30
Leipzig, Germany

Leipzig, Germany

Strohsackpassage, Nikolaistraße 10 04109 Leipzig, Germany

Conveners

Electric Sparks: New and old perspectives of Electric Buses and Trolleybuses

  • Wladimir Sgibnev

Description

In the course of the last decade the battery industry, the battery cars and buses, is ever growing. The topic is hot and the fascination is great. Multiple municipalities in Eastern Europe and elsewhere promote and advertise their progressiveness by willing to introduce (for now in the future) new battery buses wherever and whenever possible. On the other hand, the trolleybus technology is still widely spread throughout the post-socialist countries and offer an electric alternative to the battery bus. This session invites scholars interested into the introduction of the new technology from the perspective of the older, socialist one – the trolleybus. The host of the session will provide insights from local interviews and data from the capital of Bulgaria, where his paper will explore the potential of the decolonial perspective when addressing public transport developments in a post-socialist, Eastern European, supposedly backward context. I look forward to gather more insights on trolleybus and e-bus practices from other post-socialist countries and to create space to discuss the trolleybus technology from contemporary, as well as from historical perspective.

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