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VOLVO TESTS NEW HYBRID REFUSE TRUCK IN LONDON
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After a year and a half of preliminary field testing with excellent results, Volvo Trucks is now launching an upgrade of the world’s first hybrid refuse truck. The upgraded vehicle is now being released with new components and software to be tested by Veolia Environmental Services in central London.
German Hybrids Arrive, With Big Engines and Big Price Tags
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With the ML 450 Hybrid and the BMW ActiveHybrid X6, German carmakers have arrived to the hybrid party with keg-sized jugs of expensive stuff. Unfortunately, the most exciting green car party has already moved on to plug-in hybrids and electric cars with much greater potential to reduce fuel use and emissions.
Power Electronics could make Hybrid Cars Cheaper
"A research group “Future Automotive Power Electronics” headed by senior scientist Jürgen Biela, is working towards the converters. Plesko is focusing on a mechanism that integrates the inverter, the DC/DC converter and the electric motor functionally. By combining the functions of the drive and the DC/DC converter, certain electronic constituents and the motor lamination stack can be shared. If we angle it from a manufacturers’ point of view we will see that large quantities of such functionally integrated systems will be cheaper as smaller number raw materials are required. Moreover, Plesko’s design is less complex, making it easier to produce."
Ford Escape Plug-in Hybrid - Review | Hybrid Cars
When President Obama visited Southern California Edison’s electric vehicle test facility in March, he used the Ford Escape Plug-in Hybrid as the main prop for the photo op. The president spoke in soaring tones about America’s energy challenges, green jobs, and the cars of tomorrow—but the expression on his face in the PR photo was disbelief if not outright disapproval.
Ford’s 2010 Lineup Focuses on Efficiency | Hybrid Cars
Ford Motor Co. unveiled plans today for higher fuel efficiency across its 2010 lineup. The company said the new vehicle lineup will improve fuel economy by about 20 percent compared to 2005 levels.
Hybrid double-decker buses take to the road in London | Energy Efficiency News
Six highly fuel-efficient hybrid double-decker buses have taken to the road in the UK’s capital.
Hybrid Vehicles: Low-torque Ball Bearings
n recent years, demand for hybrid vehicles has been rising rapidly, thanks to the low fuel consumption and low emissions realised through a more efficient integration of the engine and electric motor. In order to further improve fuel efficiency, there is a growing need to reduce torque loss in the bearings used in the transmissions (drive-trains) of new generation hybrid cars. NSK expects growing sales to automobile manufacturers of hybrid vehicles in and outside Japan. The new product will be featured first in Toyota’s latest Prius.
Toyota Plans for Plug-in Production in 2012
oyota plans to begin commercial production of plug-in hybrids in 2012, producing between 20,000 and 30,000 units in the first year, according to Nikkei, the Japanese business daily. Toyota hopes to sell its plug-in hybrid for about $48,000.
Hybrid Car Sales Set to Boom in Near Future
The year 2009 has so far been witnessing negative trend in the overall automobile sales, affected by the ongoing global economic crisis. Yet, hybrid cars have emerged as a highly lucrative segment, defying the current economic downturn, owing to the rising energy costs and stringent emissions regulations, says our new report, "Hybrid Car Market Forecast to 2012"
Buy an S.U.V., Save the Planet - Freakonomics Blog
To give our brains a break, we might adopt a better way to look at fuel efficiency, aided by the manipulation of a mathematical tool in use in the Indus Valley almost 5,000 years ago — the unglamorous fraction.
The trick is one that even fourth-graders can master: invert the fraction. Let’s consider not miles per gallon but gallons per mile (or, to make the numbers prettier, gallons per hundred miles). By this metric, we get an unclouded picture: the Prius uses 2.17 gallons per hundred miles, the RAV4 uses 4.17, and the Range Rover uses 7.14.
Thanks to the mileage mirage, our efforts as a society may be somewhat misplaced. There are plenty of policy ideas afoot to get people into state-of-the-art, fuel-efficient cars, but a lot less interest in simply getting people out of the worst gas guzzlers into moderately more efficient alternatives, even within the same fuel-hungry class.
Top 7 Issues for an Electric Car Conversion
“The Chevy Volt is going to cost about $40,000, but a conversion costs about $15,000,” said Moore. “Until the car companies can get the prices under control, people will want conversions. It’s going to be like that for quite a while.” Moore sees dramatic interest in conversions from all across the country. His customer list includes people from Texas to New Jersey.
Will the Chevy Volt Survive Bankruptcy?
President Barack Obama gave little direct indication about the future of the Volt in his press conference this morning about GM’s bankruptcy.
Cooperation in the Auto Industry: GM & Toyota, VW & BYD
Toyota and General Motors, once feared adversaries, now make a truce that sells Toyota’s Hybrid Synergy Drive patent for use at GM, to help them out of their bankruptcy.
Hybrid Cars Are Red Hot in Japan
These numbers suggest that Japan’s hybrid market is quickly catching up to the American market in terms of size, despite that the fact that Japan’s overall vehicle market is less than half the size of the American market. In 2007, five times as many hybrid gas-electric cars were sold in the United States than in Japan. In 2008, the ratio of US to Japanese hybrid sales was closer to three-fold. Given the fierce battle between the new Honda Insight and the new Toyota Prius for domestic sales, Japan will gain even more ground this year.
World’s first first triple-hybrid fuel cell passenger bus hits the road | Energy Efficiency News
The world’s first triple-hybrid fuel cell passenger bus launched at the end of last week in Germany.
The new vehicle is the result of a collaboration between Skoda Electric, UJV Nuclear Research Institute Rez and Proton Motor.
Skoda Electric provided the bus itself and its electric drive system. Fuel cell producer Proton Motor supplied the triple hybrid fuel cell propulsion system. The project was coordinated by UJV, a Czech research institution.
The propulsion system has a 50 kW PM Basic A 50 fuel cell system at its heart, integrated with a combination of batteries and ultra-capacitors. The system stores braking energy and uses 50% less energy than a conventional diesel bus. And, of course, no emissions.
The 120 kW (163 HP) propulsion system is housed in a standard 12 m bus – of the type deployed in thousands of cities around the world.
Once filled with 20 kg of gaseous hydrogen at 350 bar, which takes less than 10 minutes, the bus has a top speed of 65 km/h and a range of more than 250 km.
Volvo’s hybrid buses take to the road in Sweden
The Göteborgs Spårvägar transport company is field testing the hybrid bus, which has two engines – a diesel and an electric motor. The bus can be driven with both engines operating together or either engine operating alone.
Bright unveils 100 mpg hybrid vehicle | Cleantech Group
Stealthy company targeting fleet customers with gas-electric hybrid planned for high volume production in 2012.
Dutch e-Traction Hybrid Bus Has In-Wheel Electric Motors
The diesel charges a battery, and the battery propels the bus for as long as fuel exists in the tank. A dutch company, called e-Traction has developed a new type of hybrid bus. It has the same working principle, but the difference is that the electric motors are embedded in the wheels.
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