Scania to Test Electric Hybrid Buses Together with Stockholm Public Transport Company SL.STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- In collaboration with Storstockholms Lokaltrafik Storstockholms Lokaltrafik AB, (Stockholm Transport[1], literally Greater Stockholm Local Transit Company), commonly referred to as SL, is the organisation running all of the land based public transport systems in Stockholm County. (SL), the regional public transport company in Stockholm, Scania (STO:SCVA SCVA Southern California Volleyball Association SCVA Southern California Vocal Association SCVA Salem Convention and Visitors Association (Salem, Oregon) SCVA Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts (UK) ) (STO:SCVB SCVB Spin-Coupled Valence Bond SCVB Sarasota Convention and Visitors Bureau ) will carry out large-scale testing of electric hybrid buses. The tests will begin during 2008 and run for at least one year. A prototype is expected to be completed in May 2007. The Swedish Energy Agency is supporting Scania's hybrid technology and contributes with more than SEK SEK In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Swedish Krona. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 16 million for the development of city buses powered by Scania's hybrid technology. The technology involves fuel savings of 25 percent or more. "Carbon dioxide carbon dioxide, chemical compound, CO2, a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is about one and one-half times as dense as air under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure. emissions from traffic can be reduced by lowering fuel consumption and transitioning to renewable vehicle fuels," says Hasse Johansson, Head of Research and Development at Scania. "Scania combines reduced fuel consumption with renewable fuel in its hybrid technology. This technology is expected to save at least 25 percent fuel. The engine eAE a high-efficiency diesel engine eAE is powered by ethanol, a renewable fuel. The technology is robust and dimensioned to last for the normal service life of the bus. We regard this as an optimal combination for city traffic, with its constant stopping and acceleration. "In a longer perspective, innovations such as hybrid drive A hard disk drive that contains a built-in, non-volatile cache comprised of flash memory. Reads and writes go through the cache first, enabling the platters to remain at rest most of the time. For laptop computers especially, the less the disk rotates, the less power is used. will help us to meet stricter environmental targets for city traffic. Even today, however, we can take a major step towards lowering the environmental impact of public transport by operating on such renewable fuels Renewable fuels are alternative fuel sources such as ethanol, biodiesel (e.g. soy, vegetable oils, animal fats, or recycled restaurant greases) or hydrogen, in contrast to non-renewable fuels such as natural gas, LPG (propane). as ethanol and rapeseed rapeseed the seed of Target rape grown specifically for the seed and its oil. rapeseed meal as oil cake or meal after rapeseed oil is removed this is a high-protein feed supplement used in cattle. methyl ester (RME RME Resource Manager Essentials (Cisco) RME Risk Management Education RME Radiation Monitoring Equipment (Space Shuttle) RME Receptor-Mediated Endocytosis (mutant lipoprotein receptor) )," Mr Johansson concludes. In Scania's hybrid technology, power is generated by a normal ethanol-fuelled diesel engine. Mechanical energy is transformed into electrical energy via a generator. The bus is propelled by an electrical motor, which also serves as a generator when the vehicle is braking. Energy is stored in supercapacitors, which have significantly longer service life than today's batteries. Since 1989, Scania has delivered about 600 ethanol-driven city buses, which have greatly contributed to improving the environment in central Stockholm, where all public transport today runs on renewable fuel. Today there is also great interest in ethanol-driven vehicles from cities outside Scandinavia. Scania is one of the world's leading manufacturers of trucks and buses for heavy transport applications, and of industrial and marine engines. A growing proportion of the company's operations consists of products and services in the financial and service sectors, assuring Scania customers of cost-effective transport solutions and maximum uptime. Employing 32,800 people, Scania operates in about 100 countries. Research and development activities are concentrated in Sweden, while production takes place in Europe and South America, with facilities for global interchange of both components and complete vehicles. In 2006, invoiced sales totalled SEK 70.7 billion and net income amounted to SEK 5.9 billion. Scania press releases are available on the Internet at www.scania.com This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net |
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