VEHICLE FOR URBAN PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION.

摘要

The means to which the invention relates is a vehicle for mass urban public transport, powered by electrical energy supplied from the overhead line or from the mains by another form of external supply, characterized in that it has a passenger compartment which is at reduced height above the ground and is virtually clear, the wheels being located fairly near the front and rear ends, these end regions containing the traction motors and the transmission and driving assemblies, and in which at least one electric motor, located in the space between the wheels of one axle, is coupled to the wheels of the axle through a hydrostatic or mechanical transmission.