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Obama Admin Plugging In School Buses

April 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Hybrids are too often thought of simply in terms of personal vehicles.
They are also penetrating the big vehicle market space. Consider the average delivery truck and all its starts/stops. There is a lot of energy to capture there, which is why UPS is pursuing hybrids. And, as per Walmart and its hybrid trucks, they are [...]

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Tags: Congress · Energize America · Energy · PHEV · government energy policy · hybrid · hybrid trucks · politics · renewable energy · transportation

Plugging in for a better tomorrow: the school bus ’solution’

December 16th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Hybrids are too often thought of simply in terms of personal vehicles.
They are also penetrating the big vehicle market space. Consider the average delivery truck and all its starts/stops. There is a lot of energy to capture there, which is why UPS is pursuing hybrids. And, as per Walmart and its hybrid trucks, they are [...]

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Tags: Energy · PHEV · analysis · automobiles · bus · business practice · emissions · energy cool · energy efficiency · energy smart · environmental · fuel economy · gasoline · government energy policy · hybrid · hybrid trucks · oil · peak oil · political symbols · politics

PHEBs: Plugging in that School Bus for an Energy Smart Future

November 12th, 2007 · 6 Comments

Hybrids are too often thought of simply in terms of personal vehicles.
They are also penetrating the big vehicle market space. Consider the average delivery truck and all its starts/stops. There is a lot of energy to capture there, which is why UPS is pursuing hybrids. And, as per Walmart and its hybrid trucks, they are [...]

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Tags: PHEV · fuel economy · government energy policy · hybrid · hybrid trucks

Walmart & its hybrid trucks …

March 19th, 2007 · 5 Comments

When it comes to Global Warming, there should be at least one arena of full agreement: there is no excuse not to be pursuing a “no regrets” strategy. E.g, pursuit of policies, programs, and technologies that make sense no matter whether you accept the weight of scientific evidence or are hoping that the skeptics at [...]

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Tags: Wal-Mart · energy efficiency · hybrid trucks · trucking