Ugandan Company Demonstrates Solar-Powered Bus(翻译)

Kiira Motors Corporation demonstrated the new electric bus recently at a sports center in the Ugandan capital, Kampala.Company officials claim it is the first solar-powered bus in Africa.
近期，乌干达国有Kiira汽车公司推出新型电动汽车，地点位于乌干达首都坎帕拉体育中心。公司官员称，这是非洲首辆太阳能巴士。

Kiira Motors is calling the new vehicle, Kayoola. It has solar panels on top and seats for 35 passengers.The company hopes the Kayoola will become the first public buses in Africa to operate on solar power.
Kiira公司将这款新车命名为Kayoola。它顶部装有太阳能板，可容纳35位乘客。公司希望，Kayoola成为非洲首辆太阳能供电公共巴士。

Mario Obuwa was the chief engineer of the project. He says the buses’ engines are completely silent.
马里奥·欧布瓦是该项目首席工程师。他称这款巴士的发动机是完全没有噪音的。

“With this bus, there’s actually no engine. What is driving the bus is a motor, a traction motor, which is being run by a battery.And the battery banks are the ones that are linked to the solar system that’s on the roof.So we have the batteries that are driving the motor and that gives us a full range of 80 kilometers on full charge. And then the solar panels come in to supplement the extra mileage, so it adds an extra twelve kilometers to the total.”
“实际上这款巴士并没有安装引擎。它由牵引电机进行驱动，牵引电机靠电池运转。电池与车顶部的太阳能系统相连。因此，是电池带动电机运转，电池充满时时速可达80公里。而太阳能板还可供应额外的里程，因此可将时速再提高12公里。”

The Kayoola bus can be recharged with solar power or by connecting to an electric power source. Best of all, it does not release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Studies have linked the gas to rising temperatures on Earth’s surface.
Kayoola巴士可用太阳能充电，或连接到电源充电。最好的一点是，它不会向空气中释放二氧化碳。研究表明，二氧化碳与地表温度升高有关系。

Obuwa says the solar-powered buses will cut down on pollution. He thinks they will also help save money on fuel by depending 100% on sunlight.
欧布瓦称，太阳能巴士会减少污染。他认为，这种巴士完全依靠阳光，因此还可节省油费。

While the Kayoola bus operates on battery power, its engineers say that it is just as powerful as a normal bus.
虽然Kayoola巴士靠电池运转，但工程师表示，它和普通巴士的驱动力一样强大。

Ugandan officials like the idea of solar-powered buses. They believe that such vehicles could help solve Kampala’s traffic problems because it will give people more choices.
乌干达官员赞赏太阳能巴士的理念。他们认为，这种交通工具给予了人们更多的选择，有助于解决坎帕拉交通堵塞的问题。

The prototype model of the Kayoola shown to reporters in Kampala had an estimated cost of more than $140,000. If this model can be mass produced, the price will drop, and it will sell for around $55,000 each.
这辆展在坎帕拉的原型车估价超过14万美元。如果能得到大量生产，价格将降至每辆5.5万美元左右。

Kiira Motors has yet to say when it will begin selling the Kayoola bus.
Kiira汽车公司尚未声明什么时候开始销售Kayoola。

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