BUSES PURCHASE * USA - DOTS looks to buy hybrid buses
College Park,MD,USA -Diamond Back On Line, by Jeanette Der Bedrosian -12 Sept 2008: -- The Campus Transportation Advisory Committee unanimously voted Wednesday to raise student fees about $15 over the course of two years to fund the purchase of eight hybrid buses, DOTS officials said... The hybrid buses would be the first of their kind at the university, a purchase Department of Transportation Services Director David Allen said may cost more but will help the university use 30 percent less gas and leave a 30-percent smaller carbon footprint than the campus' current buses. A regular diesel bus costs about $360,000, Allen said, but a hybrid runs much more expensive - costing about $585,000 and taking more than a year to be delivered. The roughly $200,000 price difference would not be completely made up for by a decrease in gas use, though Allen estimated each hybrid bus would save the university $10,000 a year in fuel costs...
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