TECHNO-BUS * USA - Long Island Bus using new battery technology
Long Island,NY,USA -Newsday, by ARIELLE BRECHISCI -January 20, 2009: -- MTA Long Island Bus has developed what MTA and New York Power Authority officials say is a more environmentally friendly fleet that is also the nation's first commercial user of sodium-sulfur battery technology... The system takes electricity from the power grid at night, when rates are lowest, and stores it to power natural gas compressors the following day at the Mitchel Field depot in Garden City, officials said... The 220-bus fleet runs on compressed natural gas, considered more environmentally suitable than diesel fuel. The bus company and power authority began working on the project three years ago, and started using it commercially on buses in April...
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