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All aboard as electric buses recharge en route

SOUTH KOREA: A South Korean city has begun testing an “electrified road” that allows electric public buses to recharge their batteries from buried cables as they travel.

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), which developed the system, said it would be tested over the next four months on a 24km route in the southern city of Gumi.