New generation - USA - Vehicles for mass transit employs alternate sources for power
Buses may dump the pumpLawrence,KS,USA -Lawrence Journal World, by Chad Lawhorn -Sept 4, 2006: -- ... They’re called hybrid-electric plug-ins, which are different than most electric buses on the market and the hybrid cars and trucks available at auto dealerships. Most hybrid vehicles rely on a gasoline or diesel engine to recharge their batteries as they’re being used... A plug-in hybrid, though, theoretically doesn’t have to use any petroleum-based fuel. Instead, the vehicle is just plugged into a conventional 110 volt or 220 volt outlet and is recharged overnight... The vehicles aren’t just pie-in-the-sky ideas drawn up on an engineer’s chalkboard. A prototype of the bus — the first in the country — is scheduled to arrive from a DaimlerChrysler factory in Germany in the next couple of weeks. It will be put into service in Lawrence’s backyard by the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority... (Photo by Thad Allender - Lawrence Transit System driver Debra Rodman, Perry, logs mileage into her notebook. City officials are beginning to research energy-efficient buses now in development)
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