Category Archives: Public transportation

Volvo Hybrid Bus 7700

By mmt | Published: June 9, 2010
The bus is on trail in Denmark for two weeks: The diesel motor stops when the bus stops. Then the bus is silence. When accelerating it uses the electric motor up to about 20 km/h and then the diesel motor starts and they run parallel. The electric motor is quite noisy so you only get lower noise [...]
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BEL = Battery Electric Locomotive :-)

By mmt | Published: November 8, 2009
I would never expect to see a large Locomotive running on batteries, but Norfolk Southern has made this:   http://www.nscorp.com/nscportal/nscorp/Media/News%20Releases/2009/batteries.html
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Electric bus from Car Ind

By mmt | Published: November 3, 2009
This bus is a Renault that had been completely rebuild by Car Ind http://www.car-ind.com/   This is the actually an ampere meter. The 2A (=2 Amps) is the “idle” current like light and ventilation. When the compressor was running it was 5Amps. The driver was not very familiarly with the bus because it was his second day in [...]
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London Hybrid bus

By mmt | Published: November 3, 2009
I was in London for en environment conference at Heathrow airport. In the evening I had the option to try the Hybrid bus on route 16.   London now has 4 different marks of hybrids all together 56 busses in services. From 2012 they will only order hybrids!!! They have both Parallel and serial hybrids. The one I [...]
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