{"id":470916,"date":"2010-03-25T11:30:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T15:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/?p=10167"},"modified":"2010-03-25T11:30:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T15:30:38","slug":"nyc-transit-receives-last-diesel-electric-hybrid-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/470916","title":{"rendered":"NYC Transit receives last diesel-electric hybrid buses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10170\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 297px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10170\" title=\"Daimler_buses\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Daimler_buses.jpg\" alt=\"New York City Transit currently operates a fleet of 1,679 hybrid buses. (Photo: Daimler Buses North America) \" width=\"287\" height=\"191\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">New York City Transit currently operates a fleet of 1,679 hybrid buses. (Photo: Daimler Buses North America) <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>From Green Right Now Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New York City Transit, the largest public transport operator in the U.S. with seven million passengers per day, just took delivery of it the last of 1,350 Orion diesel-electric hybrid transit buses ordered from Daimler Buses North America.<\/p>\n<p>The company currently operates a fleet of 1,679 hybrid buses &#8212; the world\u2019s largest fleet of hybrid vehicles for local public transportation.<\/p>\n<p>Orion began developing and producing hybrid buses in the mid-1990s and formed a partnership with NYCT to help test the buses during their development phase. Daimler then delivered its first Orion diesel-electric hybrid bus to New York City in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Daimler said it has 3,000 diesel-electric hybrid buses either in service or on order in cities such as San Francisco, Houston, Toronto, and Ottawa. New York City has the most units in operation.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Ferguson, president and CEO of Daimler Buses North America, said its fleet has \u201clogged nearly 100 million miles of passenger service while transporting half a billion passengers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir operation has reduced fuel consumption by 5 million gallons and CO2 emissions by about 50,000 tons,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The diesel-electric hybrid buses use a 6.7-liter diesel engine, a generator, an electric motor, and a lithium-ion energy storage unit. Daimler said the diesel engine is optimized to run at relatively constant speeds. Acceleration and deceleration are accomplished by varying the speed of the electric motor rather than the diesel engine, which results in maximum efficiency, fuel savings, and clean operation, the company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Transit currently operates a fleet of 1,679 hybrid buses. (Photo: Daimler Buses North America) From Green Right Now Reports New York City Transit, the largest public transport operator in the U.S. with seven million passengers per day, just took delivery of it the last of 1,350 Orion diesel-electric hybrid transit buses ordered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}