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By Rybold at 07/19/2008 - 4:23pm
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As you might recall, a few months ago, UPS placed an order for 200 hybrid trucks from Freightliner(*). UPS trucks are midsize; not large diesels. Now, it appears that Volvo and Mack are developing hybrid electric powertrains for large trucks. Since highway driving makes less use of regenerative braking than city driving, their initial target will be garbage trucks.
ARTICLE: The Herald-Mail
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Full disclosure, I have no stock in any of the companies mentioned in this blog. I do not know who the blogger is (no one does). I am impressed in the information he has received, but I am still skeptical on Ultracapacitors until I see one that works in a real world application not on paper.
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Unlike a hybrid car, the XU450 allows the rider to choose how much electric power reaches the wheels. A small digital controller on the handlebar lets riders choose from four levels of assistance, and a throttle provides a burst of power as long as the bike is already moving.
The BionX electric motor, located in the rear-wheel hub, has a sensor that measures torque on the bike chain. It uses that information to provide electric power that is proportional to how hard a rider pedals, according to Michael DeVisser, president and founder of OHM Cycles (OHM | Ride like this ). It even compensates if one of the rider's legs is pedaling more strongly than the other.
OHM Cycle's Man-Machine Hybrid - WSJ.com | | |
By Rybold at 07/17/2008 - 1:32am
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BMW X5 Hybrid Spy Photos - evidence that BMW is seriously testing hybrid technology.
Spy Photos: 2009 BMW X5 Hybrid
And don't tell me this one looks like a F@*#ing Prius!!! (laughing)
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By Fraser at 07/16/2008 - 5:08am
| Hypermilers - Thou shalt not speed | pnj.com | Pensacola News Journal
Hypermilers - Thou shalt not speed
Motorists are using questionable tactics to make most of every last drop of fuel
Rebekah Allen
rallen@pnj.com Pensacola resident John Shelton cruised along in his 1998 Nissan Frontier well under the speed limit on a 55-mph road.
A red Toyota Tundra followed closely behind, flashing his lights, until the two trucks stopped next to each other at a light.
"It's 55 miles per hour, and you're going 35," the driver of the Tundra yelled at Shelton.
"It's a speed limit, not a speed minimum," Shelton responded before the Tundra driver shouted an expletive and drove off.
Shelton, 37, a Navy instructor, is a hypermiler, and controlling speed is the No. 1 rule of a hypermiler.
As gasoline prices continue to soar, a growing number of hypermilers are using eccentric and perhaps unsafe driving techniques to increase their gas mileage by 30 percent sometimes more.
Hypermilers are known to turn off their engines at long stop lights, drive under the speed limit, coast on highways in neutral, time stoplights, drive without air conditioning, overinflate their tires and follow closely behind semi-trucks to reduce drag.
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