Green Car Congress
APRIL 18, 2010
The Dayton, Ohio RTA is adding 10 hybrid buses to its fleet, which also includes electric trolley buses. The hybrids, manufactured by Gillig, use the GM-Allison parallel hybrid drive system. RTA purchased the hybrids along with a package of several 40-foot diesel and medium-duty buses at a total cost of $13.3
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 20, 2012
Pike Research forecasts that the global market for all electric-drive buses—including hybrid, battery electric, and fuel cell buses—grow steadily over the next. The Africa/Middle East countries will see very little uptake due to the high cost of electric buses and infrastructure, the report finds. from 2012 to 2018.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 25, 2009
Azure Dynamics Corporation has sold five Balance Hybrid Electric buses to Votran, the transit entity for Volusia County, Florida. FTA stimulus funds covered 100% of the cost of the vehicles. McDonald Transit manages numerous vehicle fleets across the nation; the Azure Dynamics buses will be its first hybrids in service.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
The FOA modifies a much smaller and earlier-issued FOA by incorporating a supplemental $300 million appropriated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 (the stimulus bill) for the Energy Policy Act (EPACT) of 2005 Section 721 to fund a competitive grant pilot program to be administered through the Clean Cities Program.
Green Car Congress
MAY 19, 2011
Global hybrid + EV assembly forecast. hybrids and plug-in hybrids vs. battery EVs); pricing; power generation investment and capacity; funding and developing an infrastructure; and energy sources for electricity. However, as fuel prices escalate, the demand for an EV or hybrid vehicle will likely increase in the near-term.
Green Car Congress
MAY 12, 2009
GE says the planned facility will produce approximately 10 million sodium-metal halide cells each year—equivalent to 900 MWh of energy storage, or enough to support 1,000 GE hybrid locomotives. The first application will be GE’s hybrid locomotive, which will be commercialized in 2010. Battery Requirements for Hybrid Locomotives.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 5, 2011
The automotive industry is living proof that private companies will rarely change their behaviors without a significant stimulus to that change, and furthermore one that needs to be mandated. Power plant capital costs. Even ruling Hawaii out as an outlier, the cost of electricity in Connecticut was 17.79 Source: EIA.
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