Sentences with phrase «of hybrid buses»

In addition to this the new battery electric buses, just like TriMet's current fleet of hybrid buses and select MAX trains, will have regenerative braking.

Not exact matches

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).

When people start complaining about high gas prices, tell them that you haven't really noticed the impact of the price change since you have a compact / hybrid car, take the bus, ride your bicycle or walk.

In this case the Mayor of London proposes to continue his current low emissions scheme, but, rather than widen it to penalise smaller vehicles belonging to small businesses, instead to boost the market for innovative alternatives such as electric vehicles, low - emissions taxis and hybrid 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.

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.

In partnership with the South Coast Air Quality Management District, the institute has received $ 45.4 million to develop a fleet of hybrid trucks and buses.

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.

We also exclude hybrid texts that use a considerable amount of narrative to explain science or history (such as the Magic School Bus series by Joanna Cole).

This is illustrated by the increase in the number of electric buses to nearly 50 % of total new energy buses in 2014 in response to a subsidy available for electric buses that is 50,000 RMB (approximately 7,700 USD) more than the government subsidy for plug - in hybrid electric buses.

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.

The market is growing, though, and electric and hybrid buses are expected to account for 5 percent of new purchases this year.

TriMet already has eight hybrid buses in its fleet of about 675 buses and with the federal grant will be adding four electric buses in 2018.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 →

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

The hybrid powertrain is optionally available for a large number of model variants of the best - selling urban bus, even for the natural - gas - engined Citaro NGT.

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.

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

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.

Partners with SunLine Transit Agency in this endeavor include Creative Bus Sales, CalStart, the Federal Transit Administration, the State of California Energy Commission, BAE Systems, ElDorado National, ENC, REV Vehicles for Life and US Hybrid.

XL recently completed a successful pilot deployment of school buses with Careful Bus Company in New York City outfitted with the XL hybrid system.

Once you're finished shredding the slopes, you can take advantage of Banff's «ROAM» — Canada's first all - hybrid electric community bus service.

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.

The remarkable Brutalist (recently Grade II listed) bus station, the derelict Odeon cinema, the abandoned Coroner's Court and the former Working Men's Club will all be used as locations for the commission — a hybrid form of fiction, sculpture, performance and film.

Created as hybrids and varying in size, from that of a bus shelter to a fashion runway, the pavilions operate as quasi-functional spaces that are activated by the presence of the viewer, as visitors are encouraged to walk through the sculpture and encounter reflections of themselves, others and the space around them.

Mellors will be making a hybrid work of fiction, sculpture, performance and film, using the architecturally monumental, brutalist Preston Bus Station as its focus.

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).

But this is part of a much bigger push that includes converting all 300 single - decker buses in the center to zero emissions by 2020 at the latest, and converting all double decker buses to hybrid by 2019.

This plan involves the construction of a world - class rapid transit network and experimenting with new energy - ef cient vehicles such as the super capacitor trolleybuses and electric, hydrogen fuel - cell and hybrid buses.

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.

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.»

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

Actually, Toyota would make far more money by continuing business as usual, since hybrids account for less than three percent of Toyota's sales... Since committed environmentalists believe that we need more trains and buses, and far fewer cars, Toyota, in giving money to the Suzuki Foundation, is actualy investing in a nonprofit that works against their business interests.

Via New York Times More Green (er) Transportation EPA Wants to Clean Up Large Ocean - Going Ships Video: The Making of a Pedestrian - Only Street in Curitiba, Brazil London Gets 6 Hybrid Double Deck Buses From Volvo

The torque curve (the pulling power of the engine) of the hybrid - bus engine has been especially tailored to the hybrid application, resulting in low emissions and good fuel economy.

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?

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.

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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.

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.

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).

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-.