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Solaris to deliver another 48 trolleybuses to Budapest

Green Car Congress

The vehicles will be fitted with an additional battery power supply that will allow them to drive without being connected to overhead wires. The 12-meter Trollinos will be equipped with a 160 kW electric motor, while the 18-meter trolleybuses will feature a 250 kW engine.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Today BYD employs 130,000 people in 11 factories, eight in China and one each in India, Hungary, and Romania. Thats less than Ford ( F , Fortune 500 ) ($7 billion at the beginning of April), but more than General Motors ( GM , Fortune 500 ) ($1.3 More Will the Motor City shakeup work? tons of carbon dioxide.

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