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UPS Announces Rollout of Hydraulic Hybrid Vehicle

Robert Heron sends in an interesting bit of news: UPS has announced the adoption of Hydraulic Hybrid Vehicles (HHV) for it’s delivery truck line. Trials begin with 7 trucks total and deployed in Minneapolis where they will be monitored daily and the hydraulic engine design tweaked and maintained as data is collected about the performance [...]

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Poll Results: Hybrid Technology is Unimpressive to Most People

Well the results are in from our last poll, and most people agree that they would get a hybrid or alternative-fuel car once the technology improved. Given the combination of 1st and 2nd answers totalling almost 50%, then combining the “Yes when the style improves” giving us 60% of folks basically either saying “Yes I would [...]

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The Air Car / Hybrid

Brad Agdern sent in a hell of an interesting movie from the show Beyond Tomorrow covering the advancements made in air-based engines from the company MDI. The idea being that instead of combustion moving the pistons in the car up and down the car holds compressed air in fiber-carbon tubes that are compressed to roughly [...]

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