HYBRID BUSES * USA - Staten Island fire sparks probe into
After two electrical fires in the last two months investigators are looking into potential problems with the city's new fleet of hybrid buses
Staten Island,NY,USA -Staten Island Advance/SILive, by Maura Yates -March 23, 2009: -- The buses use regenerative braking technology to generate electricity to power the batteries... A fire broke out aboard a parked bus just before 1:30 a.m. March 14 on a ramp at the St. George Ferry Terminal. The driver smelled smoke and saw flames coming out of an electrical panel behind the driver's seat. No passengers were on board at the time and the driver was not injured... Another fire had been reported aboard another hybrid bus on Jan. 13 in Flatbush, Brooklyn. No passengers were injured in that incident... An investigation into the cause of the first fire found a melted metal stud on a "barrier box" in an electrical panel behind the driver. The extra stud had been installed in the wrong place, and may have come into contact with several 24 volt power cables nearby, causing a short, investigators believe... After the first fire, all vehicles being built by Orion at its Mississauga, Ontario, factory, or in its Oriskany, N.Y., plant, were put "on hold" until they could be checked to see if any other buses had studs mistakenly installed in the same spot... (Photo: A hybrid bus is unveiled at the Castleton Bus Depot in September) Labels: hybrid buses
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