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NewsMarch 6, 2015

Mass. Transport Fleet Adds Hydraulic Hybrid Shuttles

Lightning Hybrids will supply Massachusetts-based transportation provider Kiessling Transit with 35 parallel hydraulic-hybrid systems, the company announced at the NTEA Work Truck Show in Indianapolis.

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NewsNovember 14, 2014

Linen Delivery Fleet Adds Hydraulic Hybrid Truck

Uniform and linen supplier AmeriPride Services Inc. has taken delivery of its first hydraulic hybrid truck in North America, a 2014 Ford F59 chassis with a Morgan Olson Route Star walk-in van body.

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NewsSeptember 3, 2014

Parker Hannifin Hybrid System Qualifies for Texas Clean Fleet Program

Parker Hannifin Corporation, a motion and control technologies company, announced that its Parker RunWise Advanced Series Hybrid Drive System qualifies as a fuel replacement option under the Texas Clean Fleet Program for Texas municipal fleets.

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NewsSeptember 13, 2013

Clean Cities Colorado’s Alt-Fuel Driving Experience: Driving a Ford E-450 With Hydraulic Hybrid System

This entry is from Brian Johnston, systems and testing engineer at Lightning Hybrids. His account explains what the company’s hydraulic hybrid technology was able to achieve in the Ford E-450 passenger shuttle bus he drove to the event.

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NewsJanuary 23, 2013

Colorado State University Retrofits Two Delivery Trucks with Hydraulic Systems

Colorado State University (CSU) will retrofit two internal delivery trucks with fuel-efficient hydraulic hybrid systems, paid for by a grant from the Colorado Energy Office. The vehicles, 2012 GMC trucks, will be put into delivery service on campus.

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NewsNovember 28, 2012

Miami-Dade County Trucks to Save Fuel with Advanced Hybrid Drive System

MIAMI – Miami-Dade used funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to purchase 15 out of 29 Autocar E3 refuse trucks as part of the National Clean Diesel Campaign's Emerging Technologies List.

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NewsMay 17, 2011

Ford, Georgia Tech Partner on Hydraulic Hybrid Bus

ATLANTA – The Ford Motor Co. Fund and the Georgia Institute of Technology are partnering on the nation’s first conversion of a traditional school bus to a hydraulic hybrid vehicle that runs on recycled biofuel.

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NewsOctober 27, 2009

UPS Testing New Hydraulic Hybrid Trucks

ATLANTA - The trucks use a Freightliner custom chassis and hydraulic hybrid system from Parker Hannifin Corp., and are being financed by the Department of Energy's Clean Cities program.

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NewsMarch 11, 2009

Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation Launches Hydraulic Hybrid at NTEA Work Truck Show

CHICAGO - Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC) introduced the newest addition to its robust alternative powertrain chassis development program - the pilot hydraulic hybrid walk-in van chassis.

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NewsMarch 5, 2009

Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation Unveils Hydraulic Hybrid System

The new hydraulic hybrid system features a regenerative braking system, which saves energy by recycling and storing it as hydraulic power.

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