http://www.montereyherald.com/environment-and-nature/20150705/monterey-wireless-electric-trolley-to-live-on-past-summer Monterey wireless electric trolley to live on past summer By Phillip Molnar 07/05/15
[image http://www.montereyherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Site=NF&Date=20150705&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=705009998&Ref=PH&Profile=1029921?format=gallery MST’s electric trolley lets off passengers at the Custom House Plaza bus stop on Sunday. (Vernon McKnight -- Herald Correspondent) http://www.montereyherald.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/storyimage/NF/20150608/NEWS/150609796/AR/0/0/AR-150609796.jpg (inductive EVSE in road) http://www.montereyherald.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/storyimage/NF/20150705/NEWS/150709891/AR/0/AR-150709891.jpg ] Monterey >> Everything about Monterey’s wirelessly-powered trolley requires imagination. The ring of its bell is just a recording, most of its antique features inside are plastic made to resemble gold or metal and, even though it looks like a San Francisco cable car, it is pretty much a bus. Yet the first trolley powered by wireless electricity in an American city is already posting impressive numbers. Since its debut on Memorial Day, it has attracted more than 8,000 passengers, and by not using a gas-powered trolley, saved 400 gallons of diesel fuel and prevented 10,000 pounds of carbon dioxide from going into the air. “We’re know we’re not burning diesel fuel, and we know we don’t have the pollution that goes along with it,” Monterey-Salinas Transit chief executive officer Carl Sedoryk said. The free Monterey trolley system runs from Memorial Day to Labor Day and includes two gas-powered trolleys. Sedoryk said the electric trolley will live on past the usual trolley time. Starting in September, it will traverse the Line 2 route that serves Pacific Grove and Carmel. Based on MST’s testing, the charge from Monterey is plenty to make it to Carmel and back. On Sunday, trolley driver Jose Degracia pulled over a circular, beige charging station planted in the cement behind Old Monterey Cafe on Tyler Street. He waits for a few seconds to see if it needs a charge but a tablet computer attached to his dashboard says it still has plenty of juice. So, he simply drives off on the four-mile route that includes stops near Cannery Row, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey Conference Center and Fisherman’s Wharf. If needed, the circle conductor would beam electricity to receiver coils mounted on the bottom of the trolley. MST said there have been plenty of people going downtown to specifically catch the electric trolley, waving off its gas-guzzling comrades, but that was not the case with most riders Sunday. Gabe Gallagher from Santa Barbara sat in the back of the bus on wooden seats with his 1-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter. He didn’t know it was electric when he got on, but noticed a difference. “Most of our bus riding experience has been in New York City, so this is a lot nicer than that,” he said. Aside from the typical sound of air pressure released from brakes, the trolley never seems to get louder than a golf cart. A pre-recorded female voice plays over speakers alerting passengers to tourist sites. Trolley enthusiast Eion O’Neill, 3, was enjoying the ride but didn’t have much to say about how it was powered. “He wouldn’t care if it ran on coal,” joked his grandfather, Milton Younkin of Monterey. Sedoryk said MST is still calculating how much money, if any, they are saving in terms of electricity over gas, as well as maintenance costs. “Electric vehicles have hundreds of moving parts vs. thousands of moving parts in a conventional vehicle,” he said. “So, there’s less to maintain. We’re anticipating significantly lower costs.” The trolley was paid for by a $1.7 million grant from the Federal Transit Administration and $400,000 in California Transportation Development Toll Credits. Its technology was developed by Utah State University’s Energy Dynamics Laboratory and further developed and marketed by a spinoff company called Wireless Advanced Vehicle Electrification, or WAVE. 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