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* USA - Verizon introduces 'MAGIC' Buses to reduce carbon footprint
New York,NY,USA -Busworld (Belgium) -2 MAY 2013: -- To help reduce traffic congestion and carbon dioxide emissions in New York City, and better serve customers, public utility company Verizon has rolled out a fleet of 25 buses that will pick up company technicians at central locations throughout the city and then transport them to local job sites.
The fleet - known as MAGIC, which stands for Mobile Area Garage Installation Center - removes approximately 250 Verizon trucks from the city's roads and frees up the same number of parking spots. The MAGIC buses, each of which can hold up to 12 technicians, do not need to be parked on city streets - unlike Verizon's traditional work vehicles, which technicians drive from job location to job location and park at each one while they are at work... The MAGIC fleet will thus help ease traffic congestion, since roughly 30 percent of city traffic is caused by drivers searching for parking spots, according to the "2012 Emerging Trends in Parking report" by the International Parking Institute... The more fuel-efficient MAGIC fleet program will save the company more than 70,000 gallons of gasoline yearly. The MAGIC fleet will also reduce CO2 by more than 645 metric tons, which is equivalent to the weight of 200 passenger vehicles...
* China - Hengtong plug-in hybrid city buses to be delivered to Deyang
(Picture: Hengtong CKZ6116HNHEVA4 plug-in hybrid city buses)
Deyang,Sichuan,China -Busworld (Belgium) -28 April 2013: -- Recently, 20 Hengtong hybrid city buses rolled off the production line for delivery to the city of Deyang. The Hengtong hybrid city buses are using an advanced 10-minute fast-charging technology... Hengtong uses durable lithium titanate batteries with over 15000 charging cycles, the service life being 6-8 years. The rest of the hybrid driveline consists of a Yuchai Euro IV CNG engine and an Eaton AMT automatic transmission.
The Deyang Public Transport Company has a fleet 365 city buses, of which over 50% are from Hengtong. The new 20 plug-in hybrid city buses will be used in the central urban zone...Labels: hybrid buses fleet
(Picture: Hengtong CKZ6116HNHEVA4 plug-in hybrid city buses) 
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