DUBLIN BUS DECIDED FOR AN ADVANCED ITS SYSTEM FROM INIT
Following Stockholm, Oslo and The Hague the Irish capital Dublin is yet another European metropolis that has decided in favour of INIT technology to manage its bus network. Dublin Bus, Dublin’s largest public transport provider, has opted for the introduction of a telematics system from INIT.
WATER AS FUEL?
Published at 22.07.2008 in Alternatives, Technology
Genepax, a Japanese technology firm, is claiming that it has developed a vehicle that uses water as a fuel. According to the claims made by the firm, the modified battery vehicle can run for around one hour at a speed of 80km/h on a litre of water, by converting the hydrogen in the water for use as power source.
SOLARIS PRESENTS SECOND GENERATION OF HYBRID BUSES
Solaris Bus & Coach has delivered the first units of the enhanced, second generation Urbino 18 Hybrid city bus. It uses a smaller diesel engine, resulting in lower fuel consumption and better operating efficiency. The first of the new Solaris hybrid buses have been handed over to customers in Bremen and Hannover. Further Solaris Urbino 18 Hybrid for customers in Germany and Poland will follow later in 2008.
ALCOA, YUTONG INTRODUCE ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY BUSES FOR BEIJING GAMES
Alcoa, the world’s leading aluminum company, and Zhengzhou Yutong Bus Company (Yutong), China’s largest bus manufacturer, recently introduced two new environmentally-friendly bus prototypes that will be displayed and road tested during the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing in August 2008. The new aluminum-intensive bus body is approximately 46 percent lighter than a traditional bus and, therefore, requires less fuel and emits fewer greenhouse gases.
TROPICAL BIOFUELS GETTING LESS AND LESS GREEN
A new analysis suggests that biofuels grown in the tropics are not a much greener source of energy than drilling for oil--at least in the short term. The research paints an even gloomier picture of biofuels than previous studies, which have begun to cast doubts on the greenhouse gas benefits that these alternatives to petroleum might provide, states the American journal Science in a recent article.
