TRANSPORT INDUSTRY NEWS * UK - Stagecoach takes on carmakers over green bottleneck
Big firms should be 'more imaginative and effective' · It's not us, it's the oil companies, GM says London,UK -The Guardian, by Dan Milmo -December 6 2007: -- Stagecoach has accused major car manufacturers including Mercedes-Benz and General Motors of hindering greener travel by under-investing in environmentally friendly technology... Brian Souter, chief executive of the rail and bus operator, said Stagecoach was holding its own biofuel trial in Scotland because specially designed vehicles were such a distant prospect... The Perth-based group has converted eight buses out of a 7,000-strong fleet to run on alternative fuel but admits that changing its entire fleet is an unrealistic goal... (Video from YouTube, by DaveSpencer32 -March 18, 2007 -... features buses operating in Manchester city centre 15th March 2007. Many brand new Enviros, a fleet now around 100 strong)
* Stagecoach's £70m drive to expand lucrative bus fleet
Scotland,UK -The Scotsman, by MARTIN FLANAGAN -7 Dec 2007: -- Perth-based Stagecoach is pumping more than £70 million into a major expansion of its bus fleet on the back of a strong performance from the transport group's bus division in the first half of its financial year... Announcing a 54 per cent leap in UK bus profits to £52.5m in the six months to the end of October, co-founder and chief executive Brian Souter said Stagecoach was to buy an extra 580 vehicles for its city and country operations in 2008-9...
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