Hybrid School Buses * USA - Hit The Road; Researchers Test Their Performance
Sigourney,IO,USA -ScienceDaily -Jan. 16, 2008: -- You've got to be careful with the accelerator because hybrid school buses like to go... Dan Taghon, the director of transportation for the Sigourney Community School District in southeast Iowa, said his district's new hybrid bus has been running routes since Jan. 3. And Taghon, who drives the bus on one of the district's six routes, said he likes the 65-passenger machine powered by an electric motor and a V-8 diesel engine... And the hybrids should do a lot better than standard buses. Dennis Kroeger, a transportation research specialist said fuel efficiency could jump 40 percent to 50 percent, from six miles per gallon for a standard bus up to 10 or 11 miles per gallon for the hybrids... (Photo by Dennis Kroeger - The Sigourney Community School District's hybrid bus is running two rural routes a day)Labels: hybrid buses
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