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The Company's transmissions are used in a range of applications, including on - highway trucks (distribution, refuse, construction, fire and emergency), buses (primarily school, transit and hybrid - transit), motorhomes, off - highway vehicles and equipment (energy, mining and construction) and defense vehicles (wheeled and tracked).

About 11,000 hybrid buses, pure electric cabs and other types of clean cars are running on China's roads as a result of the program.

The blizzard lashed at the men digging out a giant red bus - tank hybrid out of snowdrifts on the Antarctic Peninsula.

Hybrid - electric vehicles, such as the Toyota Prius and 472 of SEPTA's buses, have for years used regenerative braking to charge on - board batteries and reduce fuel consumption by reusing the stored energy upon acceleration.

It will take the total number of electric buses on the capital's streets to more than 120, in addition to 2,000 hybrid electric buses — 20 per cent of the whole fleet - already in operation.

Now that series electric hybrid vehicles are beginning to emerge in commercial applications (first seen in buses and soon in the Chevrolet Volt), the concept of an electrically - powered vehicle that uses an on - board turbine generator seems like a practical idea.

Inaugurated by Ville de Luxembourg on 10 February 2017, the chargers will support 5 electric hybrid buses from Volvo, fully charging each vehicle with 150kW of power in three to six minutes, during the layover times at the end point of the bus route.

The Citaro hybrid buses are based on the hybrid technology unveiled by Mercedes - Benz last year (earlier post), and offer a fuel saving of... Read more →

The Citaro hybrid buses are based on the hybrid technology unveiled by Mercedes - Benz last year (earlier post), and offer a fuel saving of up to 8.5 % compared with the conventional Citaro.

The city bus is the first commercial vehicle to come with a separate 48 volt network, similar to that found on hybrid passenger cars from Mercedes - Benz.

While Banff can easily be experienced on foot, there is also the Roam bus service, Canada's first all - hybrid electric community bus service, to expedite your movement around town.

The Nintendo Switch offers a convenient hybrid of TV - based and on - the - go gaming, a console that's just at home plugged into a flat screen as it is when on a tour bus or a cross-country flight.

It is an invention rather than a evolution: a hybrid portable console that people will be able to play on their TV before packing the system's tablet - like extra screen into a bag to continue playing on the bus.

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).

The Sierra Club does indeed have such an advertisement, circulating Seattle on hybrid - electric busses.

In the chapter, «If it isn't boring, it isn't green,» on page 290 he starts a new section by saying «But to get the most efficiency gains and to make the Energy Internet - smart grid complete requires that one more big piece of the puzzle be put into place — electrifying transportation, and moving as many cars, trucks, buses and trains away from exclusively combustion engines and into plug - in electric hybrids or plug - in all - electric cars.»

Majorities also favor spending more on subway, rail and bus systems (63 %) and providing tax incentives for buying hybrid or electric cars, trucks and SUVs (60 %).

We reconfigure the cities around high population densities, build large commuter carparks (6 - 10,000 vehicle capacity) at 12 and 25 kms on the main approaches and supply hybrid shuttle buses with 200 + capacity running on CNG / electricity, allowing people to park and ride.

Students in Florida are riding on the first two hybrid plug - in school buses in the U.S..

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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.

What we need is a change in our transportation infrastructure, so that we have significantly fewer individual cars on the roads (replaced by modern mass transit like light - rail, bus rapid transit, separated bike paths, walkable neighborhoods, etc), and so that those that are there have much cleaner tailpipe emissions (hybrids like the AT - PZEV Prius are a step in the right direction, but we can do better).

Related posts: More Cities Jumping on the Hybrid Bus Bandwagon.

In Argentina, there have been other initiatives of eco buses with engines running on hybrid hydrogen (gas and water) in the city of Rosario, located in Santa Fe province (the country's third city in population size).

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At this time, Dozens of cities and school districts are getting good marks for implementing hybrid buses that run on both diesel and electricity.

The Court of Appeal confirmed that the test in section 1 (2)(b) of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (MCA 1973) is an objective / subjective hybrid, with the objective element to be addressed by reference to «the man or woman on the Boris Bus with their Oyster Card in 2017».