BUSES' PURCHASE PROSPECTS * USA - Madison to buy hybrid buses with stimulus money
Madison,Wis,USA -Associated Press/The Chicago Tribune -February 23, 2009: -- Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz, says the city will use $9.5 million in federal stimulus money to buy more diesel-electric hybrid buses... Cieslewicz says the city plans to buy 18 more of the buses... It bought its first five hybrid buses in 2007. Each hybrid bus costs $500,000, or $180,000 more than a regular bus... But Cieslewicz says the hybrids will replace existing buses and help reduce emissions because they use 30 percent less diesel fuel than regular buses. He says that will help Dane County lower its level of air pollution...
* RIPTA plans to start buying hybrid buses
Providence,Rhode Island,USA -Projo.com, by Bruce Landis -February 24, 2009: -- The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority will start buying hybrid buses to replace the conventional diesel-powered buses it uses now, officials said yesterday... Mark Therrien, the authority’s assistant general manager, said the authority will use money that will come to it under the federal economic stimulus program to start buying the buses... Diesel-electric hybrid buses carry both diesel and electric motors... They cost considerably more. RIPTA general manager Alfred J. Moscola said that a conventional bus costs from $380,000 to $400,000, and that a hybrid can cost $200,000 more than that...
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