Citaro Hybrid Bus Wins 2008 DEKRA Environmental Award
The Citaro bus, developed by Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz division, is pretty high-tech as far as urban buses go. It’s a series-hybrid, meaning that the diesel engine generates electricity instead of mechanically driving the wheels. This design means that in the future it would be relatively easy to replace the engine with a hydrogen fuel cell, thus making the bus completely zero emissions at the source. But even without a fuel cell, the specifications are pretty good….
January 31 2008 04:01 pm | Environment
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