The New York Taxi & Limosine services have just approved to being to convert all the NYC taxi cabs over to hybrid vehicles. Those would work great in the stop & go traffic there. I bet a NYC taxi never makes it over 40mph during it's lifetime.
Several localities have switched over to diesel electric hybrid busses. We've got a few running around Richmond here. They also have CVT transmissions in them too. It's intersting pulling up beside one of these, the diesel engine will sometimes be screaming away after it gets off the highway recharging the batteries.
If you're having trouble getting diesel fuel, try the truck stops, they have diesel fuel cheaper than gasoline. Also, try "blue collar" areas. Since these areas are frequented more by contractors driving trucks and filling up heavy machinery, many filling stations keep diesel for them. I have found diesel at all the stations in my neighborhood, but I live in an older neighborhood where most of the people around are contractors, technicians, and other type t-shirt & jeans people. If I drive out into the West end, where most of the fancier neighborhoods are occupied by office workers and other paper-pushers, diesel gets a little scarce. The gas station by my shop though sells Diesel above the price of premium gasoline. Occasionally, you'll see a suit & tie type filling up a Mercedes Benz or one of this big power-stroke SUV's
Several localities have switched over to diesel electric hybrid busses. We've got a few running around Richmond here. They also have CVT transmissions in them too. It's intersting pulling up beside one of these, the diesel engine will sometimes be screaming away after it gets off the highway recharging the batteries.
If you're having trouble getting diesel fuel, try the truck stops, they have diesel fuel cheaper than gasoline. Also, try "blue collar" areas. Since these areas are frequented more by contractors driving trucks and filling up heavy machinery, many filling stations keep diesel for them. I have found diesel at all the stations in my neighborhood, but I live in an older neighborhood where most of the people around are contractors, technicians, and other type t-shirt & jeans people. If I drive out into the West end, where most of the fancier neighborhoods are occupied by office workers and other paper-pushers, diesel gets a little scarce. The gas station by my shop though sells Diesel above the price of premium gasoline. Occasionally, you'll see a suit & tie type filling up a Mercedes Benz or one of this big power-stroke SUV's
ne of those old "Coal Burners" would have been cool.I was to small at that time to enjoy the fun parts of it.My Mom and Dad only talked about the BAD parts of it-unjamming the stoker(they said it jammed--in the middle of the coldest nights)breaking out the ash "Clinkers" and disposing of the ash and receiving coal shiopments from the fuel companies.I was a baby in one of the homes that had the coal heater.The equipment sounds interesting.Sort of like a commercial coal burner-boiler but on a much smaller scale.after all-power companies still use coal-and efficently.Some very large buildings still heat with it.-and the steam from the coal boiler runs the absorbtion chiller in the summer!
