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Victoria Launches Australias First Trial of Hybrid-Electric Buses; Series and Parallel

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Gavin Jennings, Victoria Environment and Climate Change Minister. Environmental impacts will be assessed through both fuel use and also emissions testing in a controlled-environment test. Climate control. The trial will assess the performance of the buses in three areas: Financial. Environmental. Energy storage.

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Profile: Li-ion Provider Compact Power, Inc. Focusing on the Automotive and Vehicle Markets

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Green Car Congress recently had the opportunity to spend some time with Dr. Prabhakar Patil, the CEO of Compact Power, Inc. consumer electronics the battery is in the same environment as people and automatically temperature controlled. ” by Bill Cooke. GM plans to handle module and pack assembly itself, earlier post.)

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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2010 Prius designed to be manufactured with NiMH or Lithium batteries. Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By But I dont think that would contribute to the global environment, to reduce [global warming gas] emissions." ( Wall Street Journal ). GM Press Release ).

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