SEPTA, the transit authority for the Philadelphia area, will be adding 245 new buses to the fleet, according to a plan submitted to the SEPTA board. 160 of those buses will be diesel-electric hybrids while the rest will be standard diesel unless a special grant goes through to make all of the additional buses hybrids. [...]
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Philadelphia’s SEPTA To Add 160 Hybrid Buses
March 19th, 2012 
Aaron Turpen 
Posted in Featured, Hybrids 
Tags: bus, Canada, NOVA, Nova Bus, Philadelphia, Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh (city) New York, SEPTA 
No Comments »Capacity To Offer 3 Eco-Friendly Engines By End of Next Year
March 18th, 2012 Aaron Turpen Capacity of Texas has announced it is expanding its terminal truck lineup to include three eco-friendly options by the end of next year. We’ve talked about the company’s PHETT electric terminal tractor (yard goat) before, now they’re adding more options. They include a zero-emissions terminal truck powered by hydrogen fuel cell technology, a propane hybrid [...]
Remember that Masterpiece of British Engineering? It Broke Again
March 13th, 2012 Aaron Turpen from EVMeme Back when it debuted in December, the new Routemaster bus, designed completely in the United Kingdom and touted as a “masterpiece of British engineering“, broke down on its maiden voyage because those Brit engineers forgot to put fuel in it. Now, just a couple of months after its debut, the bus is in [...]
Posted in Hybrids Tags: Boris Johnson, Linux, london, Microsoft, Olympic Games, Routemaster, Windows Me 1 Comment »Parker confirms 43% reduction in fuel consumption and 99% uptime for refuse trucks using RunWise technology
March 10th, 2012 Aaron Turpen Parker Hannifin has announced positive results after more than a year of service for its fleet of pre-production vehicles operating in several communities in South Florida. These Autocar E3 refuse vehicles are equipped with Parker’s RunWise Advanced Series Hybrid Drive System and on average have reduced fuel consumption by 43 percent when compared to conventional diesel [...]
