HYBRID BUSES * USA - Transit group recommends biodiesel fuels for buses
Lawrence and Douglas County,KS,USA -The Lawrence Journal World, by Chad Lawhorn -April 27, 2009: -- Voters in November approved new sales taxes to keep the city’s bus system alive, and now city commissioners are poised to take their biggest step yet to make the system more environmentally healthy... At their weekly meeting tonight, commissioners will receive a recommendation that the city convert its fleet of public transit buses over to a system that largely relies on biodiesel fuel made from soybeans and other plant and animal material... The recommendation — which came from a study group made up of city and Kansas University transit leaders — calls for the city to purchase four heavy-duty transit buses that are equipped to run on a fuel mixture of 80 percent conventional diesel and 20 percent biodiesel. The buses are expected to cost $350,000 to $370,000 apiece... The group also recommends the city purchase two hybrid electric buses that would run on a mixture of conventional diesel, biodiesel and electric battery power... The hybrid buses are expected to cost about $580,000 apiece, or about $200,000 more than traditional buses... (Photo: New Flyer's ST Express 60-foot Diesel-Electric Hybrid Bus )Labels: hybrid buses
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