| 30-01-2008 General
Motors says it has taken orders for as many as 1,732 new hybrid buses from public
transportation systems in Washington, Philadelphia and Minneapolis-St. Paul.
GM estimates the hybrid buses will save 2.4 million gallons of fuel a year,
enough to fill 300 tanker trucks.
GM announced the bus orders last week
at the Washington Auto Show. About 1,000 of the GM-Allison hybrid buses are now
in service.
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority ordered
952 hybrid buses, GM says. The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
ordered 480, and the Minneapolis/St. Paul transit system plans to buy as many
as 300 hybrid buses.
GM launched its hybrid technology for transit buses
in 2003. The automaker says the buses are in service in 81 cities in the United
States, Canada and Europe.
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