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Greentech * USA - Which New Hybrid Has 10 Wheels and Flies?
(Photo from NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF SANITATION - NO PRIUS This diesel-electric refuse collector built by Crane Carrier is one of seven hybrids that will be tested by the New York Department of Sanitation)
New York,NY,USA -The New York Times, by KEN BELSON -November 27, 2009: -- It sounded like a garbage truck and smelled like one, too. But the 36-ton refuse collector that rumbled out of the Department of Sanitation’s Central Repair Shop in Queens earlier this month it's one of just a handful of hybrid garbage trucks being tested around the country. This one was built by Mack Trucks, which is part of the Volvo Group... New York City is testing four different hybrid designs. Mack, which makes many of the trash haulers used by the sanitation department, delivered its hybrid in September. Crane Carrier provided the others... The Mack is a parallel hybrid design in which the electric motor and diesel engine can work together. Crane Carrier built two parallel hybrid trucks; they store energy as a hydraulic fluid under pressure rather than as electricity sent to a battery. One has a diesel engine; the other’s engine uses compressed natural gas as its fuel... The fourth truck design, also made by Crane Carrier, uses a series hybrid system in which a diesel engine drives only a generator, with no mechanical connection to the wheels. All drive power is provided by an electric motor...
(Photo from Jennifer S. Altman / The New York Times - SIPPER Ivan Rivera, a FedEx driver, says the hybrid trucks need fewer refueling stops)
Sensing a potential flood of orders, truck makers are working to develop heavy-duty hybrids. Companies like Freightliner, Navistar, Mack and Peterbilt are pairing up with two electric motor developers, Azure Dynamics and Eaton. Meanwhile, Hitachi and Johnson Controls, to cite two examples, are developing energy-storage components...
* USA - HH2 hydrogen technology purports to turn any gas-guzzler into a hybrid
(Video from YOuTube, by dzup1234 -24 Aug 2008: "2008 BIG V8 SEQUOIA USING HH2 HYDROGEN SYSTEM GETS XLNT MPG AT HI SPEEDS FROM ON-BOARD PATENT PENDING WATER CLEAN AIR COMBUSTION SYSTEM")
CAL,USA -Gizmag, by Darren Quick -December 2, 2009: -- California based company, HydroLectricPower, claims its HH2 system can turn just about any fossil fuel (petrol, diesel or compressed natural gas) powered vehicle into an eco-friendly hybrid with the installation of a book-sized device. This device apparently uses excess energy from the vehicle’s 12 Volt battery to extract hydrogen and oxygen from distilled water, which are then blended with the existing fuel source to enhance fuel combustion inside the engine combustion chambers...
(Photo: HydroLectricPower claims its HH2 system can turn just about any fossil fuel powered vehicle into an eco-friendly hybrid)
The company says that due to the high instant burn temperature of the Hydrogen (Octane 130), the system is able to completely incinerate most fuel toxins, poisons and particulate matter, resulting in a clean, warm, moist air exhaust discharge. And because the fuel is completely burned, the system allows the vehicle to achieve improved fuel economy and performance.
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