"GREEN" NEWS * USA - Seattle To Have More Than 700 Hybrid Powered Buses
Seattle's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and target global warming are among the most aggressive in the U.S. Seattle,WASH,USA -trucktrend.com -May 25, 2007: -- Due to this strong environmental leadership, the city has one of the greenest transit agencies in the nation... Powered by hybrid technology from General Motors, GM's strategy is to save as many gallons of fuel as possible by applying the technology first to high-volume and high fuel-consuming vehicles such as mass transit buses and SUVs... Currently, more than 700 buses with GM's 2-mode hybrid system have been delivered to 54 cities across the U.S. and Canada, saving an estimated 1 million gallons of fuel annually. The addition of these 500 buses, will bring the total to more than 1,200 buses, saving an estimated 1.75 million gallons of fuel annually... In fact, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) conducted a one-year comparative study between conventional diesel buses and diesel hybrid electric articulated buses currently in Seattle. The report showed that the hybrid powered buses had a 27 percent higher fuel economy on average when compared to the convention diesel buses and total operating cost were lowered by 15 percent...
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