"GREEN" NEWS
* Australia - Eden to fuel Indian buses
Northbridge,Western Australia,Australia -WA Business News -18 Dec 2006: -- The hydrogen-enriched natural gas blend made by Perth-based alternative energy supplier Eden Energy Ltd will be used by Indian bus manufacturer, Chennai-based Ashok Leyland, under an agreement announced today... Under the agreement Eden, through its 100 per cent owned subsidiary Brehon Energy PLC, will recalibrate the Indian engines at its test facilities in Colorado, to enable the use of its Hythane fuel... Ashok, the Indian arm of London's Hinduja Group, manufactures more than 80,000 vehicles per year, and provides the majority of all metropolitan state transport buses in India carrying over 60 million passengers per day...
* USA - North American cities take to the hybrid bus
Toronto,ONT,CAN -MSNBC (USA), by Bernard Simon -Dec. 17, 2006: -- The recent popularity of hybrid cars has obscured an even more impressive surge in North American demand for diesel-electric city buses... DaimlerChrysler, whose Orion brand has close to a 60 per cent market share, estimates that, based on existing orders, the number of hybrid buses on US and Canadian streets will grow by three-quarters over the next year from 1,200 to 2,100... Hybrids' political appeal has helped offset their price. A hybrid bus costs about $530,000 – 60 per cent more than a diesel model. In the US, the federal government foots 80 per cent of the bill for new municipal buses... The price premium is a barrier in some markets, including Europe. According to Mr Pat Scully, chief commercial officer in DaimlerChrysler's North American bus division, "the hybrid phenomenon is, for the time being anyway, a US-Canada event"...
* USA - State to reduce emission on school buses by 90 percent
Boston,Mass,USA -The Boston Herald/AP -Dec 18, 2006: -- Traveling to school should become a healthier experience for Massachusetts children after state officials make good on their pledge to reduce school bus exhaust emissions by 90 percent over the next three years... Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Ed Coletta said Monday that the state would spend $22.5 million over the next three years to install exhaust filters on all school buses and regional transit authority buses throughout Massachusetts. Roughly 8,000 school buses and about 600 regional transit buses will be retrofitted...
*- USA - TANK investing in hybrid buses to clean up the air
Cincinnati,OH,USA -The Cincinnati Post, by James Proffitt -19 Dec 2006: -- The Transit Authority of Northern Kentucky will place what it says are the area's first full-sized diesel-electric hybrid buses into service in late 2007, thanks to funding the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet... Monday, the cabinet announced that more than $1.2 million in Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality funds have been designated for Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties. The largest grant, $881,600, is for TANK to put toward four new electric-hybrid buses... The new buses are costly - about $590,000 each compared to $337,000 for a standard diesel model. But the benefits are realized long-term, according to Andrew Aiello, assistant director of development at TANK...
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