Sentences with phrase «diesel buses in»

BruinBus Transit Fleet Ditches Diesel and Goes All Clean Fuel Sep 27, 2016 UCLA Newsroom (Los Angeles, CA) UCLA became the first public university in California with electric buses today, when two zero - emissions electric buses replaced the last diesel buses in the BruinBus transit fleet.

Since the Columbia team started tracking air pollution levels in 1998, PAHs have declined, which Perera attributes to stricter anti-idling laws and phaseout of older diesel buses in New York City.

Reducing Air Pollution The last diesel bus in the 2,228 vehicle fleet of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) was recently retired, making Metro the first major transit agency in the world to

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Today, a 2017 model year diesel truck or bus sold in the U.S. is over 98 % cleaner than one 17 years ago.

In 2016, CareerBuilder and Economic Modeling Specialists Intl. found that some of the most in - demand jobs included sales managers, insurance sales agents, heavy and tractor - trailer truck drivers, bus and truck mechanics, and diesel engine specialistIn 2016, CareerBuilder and Economic Modeling Specialists Intl. found that some of the most in - demand jobs included sales managers, insurance sales agents, heavy and tractor - trailer truck drivers, bus and truck mechanics, and diesel engine specialistin - demand jobs included sales managers, insurance sales agents, heavy and tractor - trailer truck drivers, bus and truck mechanics, and diesel engine specialists.

What do you get when you combine a Dachshund, a trained chef, a 1991 diesel bus and boyfriend that grew up in the restaurant industry?

A pensioner with breathing difficulties can give up cigarettes, but they'll still have to breathe in diesel fumes at the local bus stop.

Many in Ulster County have seen the signs on Trailways buses advertising the need for trained diesel mechanics and bus drivers.

The grant was awarded in conjunction with the National School Transportation Association's (NSTA) Go Yellow, Go Greennational campaign that encourages cleaner operation of school buses through the reduction of school bus idling and the implementation of the latest clean diesel technologies.

In China, fleets of hybrid diesel buses are equipped with ultracapacitors that charge up swiftly from regenerative braking systems, and later accelerate the bus until the diesel engine can take over.

Off the record, one of the government's own advisers on air pollution will tell you he has estimated that the deaths of 3000 people a year in England and Wales can be laid at the door of emissions from diesel lorries, cars and buses.

The fact that the city's bus fleet still depends on diesel, Artaxo warned, creates an even worse health hazard in the shape of emissions of black carbon, one of the main components of soot and a pollutant that contributes to global warming.

Daniel Cohn, leader of the MIT project, says his team's «plasmatron» fuel reformer could clean up the diesel engines in commercial trucks and buses, which are a leading source of transportation pollution in the United States.

Readers will find stories about grants to clean up and replace outdated diesel school buses as well as articles discussing the latest in school - bus evacuation drills.

The K — 6 school paid $ 25,000 for a 78 - passenger turbo - diesel school bus in the fall of 2005 with high hopes that it would make it easier for students — particularly Latinos — who didn't live close to the school to enroll.

A single diesel bus can produce 750 kg of nitrogen oxides (NOx), a precursor to smog, in a year, and 13 kg of particulate matter, which is a carcinogen linked to heart disease.

Electric Vehicle Company Expanding in Foster City: Motiv Power Systems Top Zero - Emission Powertrain Manufacturer for Trucks, Buses Aug 18, 2016 The Daily Journal (San Mateo, CA) Move over dirty diesel, there's a growing electric vehicle company in town hoping to make zero - emission trucks and buses the wave of the fuBuses Aug 18, 2016 The Daily Journal (San Mateo, CA) Move over dirty diesel, there's a growing electric vehicle company in town hoping to make zero - emission trucks and buses the wave of the fubuses the wave of the future.

The GL450's 4.6 - liter bi - turbo V - 8 is the most modest engine in the GL pantheon after the 3.0 - liter turbo - diesel.

Marin Transit purchased its first diesel electric hybrid buses in 2010, and currently operates 18 hybrid buses.

The idea being that most School buses in my region are diesel which is ofcourse going to die in a few years.

Currently, diesels are only sold in commercial trucks and busses.

The ultra low - floor luxury Citylife buses were displayed at the 2016 Auto Expo in diesel variants but the company has supplied over 100 Citylife CNG buses to the Noida Metro Rail Company, making it available in two variants.

As a result, there is just a marginal reduction in total passenger capacity that is insignificant in practice: the standard - specification Citaro hybrid with diesel engine offers space for up to 105 passengers as a rigid bus with a permissible GVW of 18 t and 159 passengers as an 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.

Compared to the standard diesel - powered bus, the REEV 4.5 - liter engine is downsized by about 50 % in terms of displacement and can achieve up to 10 mpg, significantly lowering the carbon footprint.

It can also be used in all on - or off - road heavy duty trucks, as well as automotive, transit bus, marine, and stationary diesel engine applications that require ultra low sulfur diesel (ULSD).

Jody Craig, a member of the audience, described how a single Girl Scout troop in January sought to curb harmful air pollution from diesel engines by requiring buses to stop idling outside of a local school.

In fact the Metrobus rolling stock consists of ordinary articulated diesel buses — their fuel and emissions savings come not so much from fancy expensive tech as from a systems approach to solving one of the world's most vexing transportation and air pollution messes.

Daimler's Thomas Built Rolls out Electric School Bus Three studies in California found students riding school buses are exposed to far more air pollution than expected, especially older diesel buses.

DEQ to offer funding towards the replacement or upgrade with advanced emission controls of at least 450 diesel school buses in the state

In addition to purchasing renewable electricity and green natural gas for the event, GHG emissions associated with the use of diesel generators and event vehicles (i.e. shuttle buses and courtesy vehicles) will be neutralized through the purchase and retirement of high quality carbon offsets, helping to ensure event operations are carbon neutral.

Currently, the leaks in the gas system mean that running trucks and buses on diesel is still cleaner than natural gas, the researchers said.

School districts, fleet owners and operators, bus drivers, parents and students all have a role in helping to reduce diesel emissions from school buses.

There are also substantial green employment opportunities in retrofitting old diesel buses to reduce air pollutants and in replacing old equipment with cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG) or hybrid - electric buses.

Addition of alternative powertrains (electric, plug - in hybrid electric gasoline / diesel) for buses and medium - and heavy - duty trucks.

The conclusions in that chapter were about as pretty as bacteria - riddled seats aboard a diesel - burning bus.

Coming so soon after London committed to making all new single decker city center buses entirely emission free, starting immediately, and after Paris, Athens, Madrid and Mexico City committed to phasing out all diesel vehicles by 2025, it really seems like there's momentum toward finally cleaning up the air in cities across the world.

So the potential for hybrid diesel vehicles is great — hybrid trucks and buses offer even larger fuel savings than hybrid cars, and can pay for themselves in a few years.

Otherwise, Delhi will find itself in the choked and toxic haze of the pre-CNG days, when diesel - driven buses and autos had made it one of the most polluted cities on earth.»

CNG buses cost about 10 to 15 percent more to operate than standard diesel engine buses, but the value of a cleaner air more than compensates for this (including in healthcare costs).

«The American Lung Association in California applauds Metro's accomplishment in converting their transit fleet from older diesel buses to cleaner natural gas buses,» said Jane Warner, President and CEO for the American Lung Association in California.

Volkman explains that he chose to convert a bus into a full - time residence because he became interested in diesel - vegetable oil conversions, and it was cheaper to convert a bus to run on veggie oil versus a van.

Retrofitting School Buses Leads to Large Cuts in Particulate Emissions Accordingly, the Texas school districts can install pollution control devices on diesel school bBuses Leads to Large Cuts in Particulate Emissions Accordingly, the Texas school districts can install pollution control devices on diesel school busesbuses.

- Introducing the central London Ultra-Low Emission Zone one year earlier than planned in 2019 - Extending the Ultra-Low Emission Zone («ULEZ») beyond central London from 2020: for motorcycles, cars and vans, to the North and South Circular; and for lorries, buses and coaches London - wide - Developing a detailed proposal for a national diesel scrappage scheme for Government to implement - Bringing forward the requirement for all double — deck buses to be ULEZ - compliant in central London from 2020 to 2019 - Implementing clean bus corridors — tackling the worst pollution hotspots by delivering cleaner buses on the dirtiest routes

Federal law mandates that pollution controls be installed on all school bus diesel engines built in 2004 and later.

In Texas, the State Energy Conservation Office's Clean School Bus program aims to help reduce children's exposure to harmful emissions from diesel buses.

The hybrid bus can move up to 12 MPH in all - electric mode, and over that the diesel engine kicks in.

Meanwhile, in other areas where the buses can speed up, it would turn to the diesel engine.

Investigated buses represented different technologies in terms of engines, exhaust after - treatment systems (e.g., diesel particulate filter, selective catalytic reduction, and three - way catalyst) and fuels (diesel, diesel - electric (hybrid), ethanol, and compressed natural gas (CNG)-RRB-.

He points to examples elsewhere where courts have successfully changed policy on environmental issues, such as cases against deforestation in the Philippines and a supreme court ruling in India that paved the way for Delhi's buses to switch from diesel to compressed natural gas (CNG) to cut air pollution.