BUSMAKERS' NEWS * WORLDWIDE
* Germany - Mercedes-Benz Fleet Testing Fuel Cell Bus
Stuttgart,Germany -The Inventor Spot, by George Delozier(CAL,USA) -March 2009: -- While busses are great when you live in the city and want to keep the number of vehicles on the road as low as possible, they require a lot of power to move and are run almost non-stop... Obviously this leaves room for improvements and we have seen many in the past year or two... Recently, Mercedes-Benz offered another solution to public transportation in the form of a Fuel Cell Hybrid bus... The Citaro Fuel Cell Hybrid Bus is a part of Mercedes' Overall Zero-Emission Plan, as well as Daimler's Shaping Future Transportation program... The idea began back in the mid 1990s and evolved into a diesel-electric hybrid... From there, the plans were reviewed, revamped and resubmitted and eventually the Fuel Cell Hybrid Bus was born... (Image: How A Fuel Cell Works) * UK - Bus firm warns of 150 job losses: Alexander Dennis
Camelon,Falkirk,UK -BBC News -16 March 2009: -- The UK's biggest bus and coach builder Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL) has warned 150 jobs could go at the firm... The Falkirk-based manufacturer, which employs 2,200 people globally, said it was in talks with trade unions to minimise the impact of the cuts... The company's chief executive Colin Robertson blamed a market slowdown, and said the full impact of this had only recently become obvious... Nearly half of ADL's entire workforce are based at the plant, which produces bus bodies for use in Hong Kong, North America and Europe... (The firm is the biggest manufacturer of buses in the UK) Labels: busmakers' news worldwide
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