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Hybrid Trucks - USA - MoDOT to test new ones
St. Louis,MO,USA -St. Louis Business Journal -1 Aug 2006: -- The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) recently said that it plans to participate in the Utility Hybrid Truck Pilot Program, which will test a new energy saving, environmentally friendly, diesel-electric bucket truck... On average, a conventional bucket truck in MoDOT's fleet consumes 2,176 gallons of diesel fuel per year. Tests show hybrids use about 50 percent less fuel and reduce smog-forming emissions by almost half. Applying the fuel savings realized in earlier tests, a hybrid truck would only consume an estimated 1,088 gallons of biodiesel fuel per year, according to a MoDOT release...
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