Sentences with phrase «with diesel buses»

Popple also believes that within five years, he can get the cost of Proterra's buses down to a price that's competitive with diesel buses.

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Today I was driving my GASOLINE powered car around a city with a lot of other GASOLINE powered cars, I saw some trucks and buses driving around with DIESEL engines, and got stopped at a level crossing while a train, pulled by 2 DIESEL locomotives went by.

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

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.

By the 1920s, the popular diesel engine had reached the United States, and by the 1950s, a large proportion of the world's ships and trains were diesel driven, with trucks, tractors, and buses following close behind.

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.

The economical four - cylinder, Euro 5 emissions compliant turbo diesel engine produces enough power to propel the bus at freeway speeds, and with a 100 - litre fuel tank has a huge operating range between refills.

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.

Big Trucks were also big news at the event, and with most everything imaginable done to pick - ups, builders turned their creative efforts to 1950s - era, over-the-road big rigs, ton and ton and a half behemoths with modern diesels turning at least one turbocharger, 30s era shells built to support a cooling system under the hood so that a mid-engine diesel could sit behind it, duallies spinning enough rubber to shoe twenty Minis, school buses both short and long, a whole row of utility vans, and the ever popular fast and bulbous cab - overs.

2006 Ford E450 Super Duty Commercial bus with less than 500 miles on recently rebuilt diesel engine.

The Proterra Catalyst E2 Series buses are available with 440, 550 or 660 Kwh batteries and should cost less to own than the diesel buses.

Tank - to - wheel CO2 equivalent emissions of 684.9 g / km are 37 % lower than those of a conventional Euro VI diesel bus, making the Enviro400H with Series - E technology an Ultra Low Emission Bus and qualifying it for funding from the Department for Transport's ongoing # 48 - million Ultra Low Emission Bus Schebus, making the Enviro400H with Series - E technology an Ultra Low Emission Bus and qualifying it for funding from the Department for Transport's ongoing # 48 - million Ultra Low Emission Bus ScheBus and qualifying it for funding from the Department for Transport's ongoing # 48 - million Ultra Low Emission Bus ScheBus Scheme.

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 levels of toxic diesel fumes inside school buses are 4 times higher compared with outside the buses.

[T] he analysis finds that powering trucks and buses with natural gas instead of diesel fuel probably makes the globe warmer, because diesel engines are relatively clean.

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.

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.

Evidence given to the Senate Inquiry suggested that a number of urban authorities decided not to proceed with planned purchases of gas - powered bus fleets as the price of diesel was expected to fall sharply as a result of the GST package.

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.

For road travel, off - peak urban diesel buses are the worst, going down to conventional gasoline sedans — they used a Toyota Camry; using a Prius would've increased the differences between SUVs and pickups still more — with travel during peak hours on a diesel bus coming out well below these.

MPG equivalent of «18 and 29 miles per gallon diesel fuel equivalent fully loaded with 68 passengers — 500 % better than a comparable diesel bus,» similar to numbers discussed when the bus was touring California and Pennsylvania earlier this year.

The diesel mechanic resume sample is useful for jobseekers who want experience working with and maintaining the operations of buses, trucks, or other diesel automobiles.

Hard - working and professional Bus Driver with strong background in driving diesel, gasoline and electrically powered passenger vehicles between neighborhood, schools or other locations.

To work as a Diesel Technician with «Phoenix Motors,» and perform repair and maintenance services on diesel engines, trucks, and passenger buses.

Sound knowledge of bus diesel engines and mechanical troubleshooting along with preventive maintenance, diagnosis and repair