A transit elevated bus (TEB-1), and super-capacitor tram are set to revolutionalize public transport in China. These ingenious transportation breakthroughs, which depend on clean energy, would allow efficient travel by cutting traffic-jams.

The transit elevated bus was tested on a road in Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province on Tuesday. The China-made electric bus, which looks a lot like a moving tunnel, is 22 meters long, 7.8 meters wide and 4.8 meters high. It can run on a top speed of 40 miles per hour.

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The bus carried up to 300 passengers during its test ride, which was a display of its capacity. Built to carry up to 1400 passengers, the passenger compartment of the futuristic bus is designed to allow cars and other vehicles (under seven feet) on the road to pass underneath it.

Other vehicles can travel underneath it whether the bus is in motion or not. This is important as the bus is a public transport vehicle and would be required to stop and start frequently for passengers to get on and get off.

In another development, China's first tram that uses supercapacitor energy storage rolled off the production line on Monday.

The tram in Central China's Hunan province can carry up to 380 passengers at a travel speed of 70 kilometers per hour.

Once fully charged, the tram can run for three to five kilometers, according to Engineer-in-Chief Suo Jianguo of  Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co.

The independently-designed super-capacitor tram operates without external wires and can be fully charged during a 30-second stop. "This is the first time all the technology, even the spare parts, are independently provided by China," according to Suo. 

Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co., which is under the CRRC Corporation Ltd., is the country's largest rolling stock maker and is credited with developing the first light train using supercapacitor energy storage technology in August 2012.

The boarding has been made convenient for children, pregnant women and the elderly using a low-floor design.

The tram runs on clean energy, and it is designed to reuse 85 percent of the energy regenerated from breaking.

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