Hybrid School Buses Hit The Road; Researchers Test Their Performance

ScienceDaily ( Jan. 20, 2008 ) — You’ve got to be careful with the accelerator because hybrid school buses like to go.
Dan Taghon, the director of transportation for the Sigourney Community School District in southeast Iowa, said his district’s new hybrid bus has been running routes since Jan. 3. And Taghon, who drives the bus [...]

Lightweight Urban Transit Bus Has Double The Fuel Efficiency Of Conventional Hybrid Buses

ScienceDaily ( July 30, 2008 ) — Insight from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, commitment from two Michigan companies and funding from the Department of Energy have led to the commercialization of a lightweight urban transit bus with double the fuel efficiency of conventional hybrid buses.
This new green technology 40-foot bus features a high-strength stainless steel [...]

Bus Of The Future, Engineer Designs More Efficient, Quieter Bus

July 1, 2007 — An engineer has designed an electric bus that runs on battery power. Putting motors in each wheel makes a transmission and driveshaft unnecessary, and allows the bus to ride closer to the ground for ease of entry. Using stainless steel also reduces weight. The prototype increases fuel efficiency by four times [...]

BMW Hydrogen 7 Emissions Well-below Super-ultra Low-emission Vehicle Standards, Government Tests Confirm

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ScienceDaily ( Mar. 31, 2008 ) — Independent tests conducted by engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory on a BMW Hydrogen 7 Mono-Fuel demonstration vehicle have found that the car’s hydrogen-powered engine surpasses the super-ultra low-emission vehicle (SULEV) level, the most stringent emissions performance standard to date.
“The BMW [...]

Cars of Tomorrow, Automotive Engineers Team Up to Improve Energy-Saving Technology

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October 1, 2006 — Mechanical and electrical engineers at DaimlerChrysler, General Motors and BMW have jointly developed a hybrid-vehicle technology that shuts the internal combustion engine off when the vehicle stops. Meanwhile, engineers are working to replace the platinum in fuel cells with cheaper materials, which could lead to viable hydrogen cars.
AUBURN HILLS, [...]

Hybrid Cars Could Be More Reliable And Cheaper With New Fuel Cell Technology

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ScienceDaily ( Aug. 3, 2008 ) — Monash University scientists have revolutionised the design of fuel cells used in the latest generation of hybrid cars which could make the vehicles more reliable and cheaper to build.
The breakthrough, published August 1 in the journal Science, revolves around the design of a fuel cell in [...]

Biodiesel Could Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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ScienceDaily (Nov. 30, 2007) — A CSIRO report released November 27 confirms that using pure biodiesel or blending biodiesel with standard fuel could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector.
Biodiesel can be manufactured from any product containing fatty acids, such as vegetable oil or animal fats.
The report, “The greenhouse and air quality emissions [...]

‘Fuel For Thought’ On Transport Sector Challenges

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ScienceDaily ( July 11, 2008 ) — A report on how Australia can best respond to the environmental and economic challenges arising from its dependence on fossil fuels for transport has just been released in Melbourne.
The report “Fuel for thought – The future of transport fuels” challenges and opportunities addresses two serious issues [...]

US Cities Report Local Climate Actions, Emissions

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ScienceDaily ( Aug. 10, 2008 ) — At least 30 US urban centers, including New York City, New Orleans and Las Vegas, will team with the UK-based Carbon Disclosure Project to measure their greenhouse gas emissions and other climate change-relevant data.
Each city will assemble comparable carbon emission data for fire department, ambulance and [...]

Smarter Energy Storage For Solar And Wind Power

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ScienceDaily (Nov. 29, 2007) — Development of the first hybrid battery suitable for storing electricity from renewable energy sources such as solar and wind is now a step closer.
CSIRO and Cleantech Ventures have invested in technology start-up Smart Storage Pty Ltd to develop and commercialise battery-based storage solutions.
Director of the CSIRO Energy Transformed [...]