Sentences with phrase «driving hybrid buses»

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This Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 59 presents an up - to - date description of emerging hybrid - electric drive technology for transit buses and discusses the technology and its status, benefits, life - cycle costs, and deployment issues.

Two electric motors, each with 485 Nm The electric Actros drives very specifically with a ZF portal axle borrowed from a hybrid bus, which has been heavily modified for use in lorries: among other things, the ground clearance increases to 20 centimeters.

The hybrid drive is likewise available for the Citaro NGT with the M 936 G gas engine; the hybrid drive can be ordered for both the Citaro NGT rigid bus and the Citaro G NGT articulated bus.

The only models for which hybrid drive is not available are Citaro buses fitted with the Mercedes - Benz OM 470 diesel engine due to a lack of installation space, as well as the high - capacity buses in the CapaCity series for the same reason.

The hybrid drive takes up little space; the outer contours of the bus, like the passenger compartment, remain unchanged; the extra weight is low.

He takes the subway or bus if he can, and when he has to drive, hops in his Honda Civic Hybrid.

a huge majority of those people choose to drive to work when they could bike, take a bus, carpool, etc; and a similar high percentage could buy an electric car — they're on the dealer showroom floors in every town in the country, but they choose to buy a FF car, or perhaps a half - and - half (a hybrid).

As an example, soot - free buses can be powered by a wide range of fuels including fossil diesel or compressed natural gas (CNG), biogas, or other liquid biofuels, and electric drive engines including hybrid drive, fuel cell, and battery electric drivetrains.

However, I read in Kate Ascher's book The Works that the MTA is by far the largest consumer of electricity in the city, and since power is generated by burning fossil fuels, I find myself wondering how much gasoline it saves to use the subway versus, say, driving a hybrid or taking the bus?

DaimlerChrysler is positioning the hybrid - drive Citaro as a logical step on the way to a fuel - cell - powered urban bus service bus of the near future.

However, even as alternatives to driving have become more prominent in public discourse, the fact of the matter is that people get far more excited about the Chevy Volt and the Tesla Roadster than they do about hybrid - electric buses and bicycle lanes.