Sentences with phrase «hybrid diesel buses»

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.

Not exact matches

The agency also tried to buy more diesel - powered buses than hybrids.

The 40 - foot, near - zero - emission, diesel - electric hybrid buses cost more to purchase but less to operate and are cleaner and quieter than traditional diesel buses.

These buses will have the fuel efficiency equivalent of 24 miles per gallon, reducing fueling cost by as much as 80 percent over regular diesel or hybrid buses.

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

It has become one of the most widely used engines for lower - carbon diesel electric hybrid buses across the UK and Europe.

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.

Designed by Thomas Heatherwick, the new curvy, highly styled Routemaster will be15 per cent more fuel efficient than existing hybrid buses and 40 per cent more than diesel double - deckers.

The bus will have a hybrid diesel / electric engine designed to reduce fuel consumption and exhaust.

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.

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.

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.

The downsizing of the drivetrain components means that the weight penalty of the Citaro hybrid bus over a conventional diesel - powered articulated bus is only around one tonne.

Volvo's new parallel diesel / electric hybrid, with its regenerative braking system, is best suited to heavy vehicles making frequent stops like delivery trucks, busses, and trash haulers.

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

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

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-.