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e all know that dumping hydrocarbons as a fuel source is one of the most important things governments
The team chose a Nissan e-NV200 electric van as the base vehicle. Aluminium racks and fittings were used wherever possible to reduce weight. Lithium batteries were used for technical power, which, though more expensive, provide worthwhile savings in size and weight. The van is equipped with AvL one metre antenna, CPI BUC and Comtech modems operating on BBC’s Vipersat network, a Terradeck Cube encoder, Blackmagic Ultrastudio 3D Thunderbolt interface and BBC Raven server. “People are obviously under pressure not to use diesel engines,” explains
Megahertz Technical Director Steve Burgess. “Quite a few of the vehicles we’ve built in the past have used diesel generators for powering the technical equipment, but the last batch of vehicles we built for the BBC, the smaller ones, used battery power for the technical side. We thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be nice if you could actually use an electric vehicle and share the power system?’” DON’T GET HIGH ON YOUR OWN SUPPLY The Megahertz team discovered that directly tapping the vehicle’s traction
and businesses can do to preserve the environment, human health and the global economy. And given that London’s air pollutions levels have been illegally high since 2010, it was a no-brainer for broadcast systems integrator Megahertz to partner with the BBC to build ev-SAT, the world’s first all-electric newsgathering van. Megahertz, based in Ely, UK, had been looking at the possibilities of building an electric OB vehicle for about 18 months.
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