Scania: Another Ethanol-fuelled Hybrid Buses Premiere
2009-09-02 Source：english.chinabuses.com
English.chinabuses.com: News from Scania China reveals that it is now starting full-scale operational trials with six ethanol-fuelled hybrid buses. It will further improve the environment. The hybrid technology will reduce fuel consumption by 25 percent. The use of ethanol will reduce net carbon dioxide emissions by up to 90 percent.
“These operational trials will give us valuable experience of how hybrid technology shapes up in real life, as well as of its environmental effects,” says Goran Hammarberg, Head of Bus Development at Scania. Since the start in 1989, Scania has supplied some 400 ethanol city buses and his has strongly contributed to an improved environment.
Scania is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of trucks and buses for heavy transport applications, and of industrial and marine engines. Employing 35,000 people, Scania operates in about 100 countries.
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