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• Iveco
  Iveco is making [[hybrid electric vehicle]]s.<ref name="lexisnexis.com">{{Cite web|url=http://www6.lexisnexis ** ''See [[Irisbus]] for Irisbus's buses and "Iveco" buses rebranded as Irisbus product.''
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• TransLink (British Columbia)
  ===Buses=== ...diesel or natural gas, in most of the region's municipalities and trolley buses primarily within the City of Vancouver. The District Municipality of West V
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• Fluid coupling
  ...attempt to mitigate the lurching he had experienced while riding on London buses during the 1920s.<ref name="mjn"/> ...the prime mover, which is typically an [[internal combustion engine]] or [[electric motor]]. The impellor's motion imparts both outwards linear and rotational
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• Great American streetcar scandal
  Between 1936 and 1950, National City Lines bought out more than 100 electric surface-traction systems in 45 cities,<ref>{{cite web ...lt Lake City, Tulsa, Baltimore, and Los Angeles, and replaced them with GM buses. American City Lines merged with National in 1946.<ref name="7th" />
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• Alternator
  ...were known in simple forms from the discovery of the magnetic induction of electric current. The early machines were developed by pioneers such as Michael Fara ...he called electromagnetic self-rotors. In the prototype of the single-pole electric starter (finished between 1852 and 1854) both the stationary and the revolv
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• Mercedes-Benz Vito
  ==Electric Models== ...ery this year) powered by a 32 kWh lithium-ion battery attached to a 90 kW electric motor. It is expected to provide a range of 130 km (81 mi) and haul 900 kg.
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• Hispano-Suiza
  In 1898 a Spanish artillery captain, [[Emilio de la Cuadra]], started with electric automobile production in Barcelona under the name of '''La Cuadra'''. In Pa ...lant located in Barcelona, until 1946. They mass-produced cars, trucks and buses, and a number of hand-built racing and luxury cars, some of which ended up
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• Petroleum electric hybrid vehicle
  A '''Petroleum Electric Hybrid Vehicle''' (PEHV) is a vehicle using an on-board [[rechargeable ener ...hat drives the vehicle. This contrasts with all-[[Battery electric vehicle|electric car]]s which use batteries charged by an external source such as the grid,
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• Coventry Climax
  ...pany|Standard]]. In the early 1930s the company also supplied engines for buses. In the 1920s the company moved to Friars Road, Coventry and in the late 1 ...n 1931 they were left with a stock of engines that were converted to drive electric generators giving the company an entry into a new field. This in turn led t
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• Gas turbine
  ...ors were installed in Cambridge Power Station, and used to power the first electric street lighting scheme in the city. *1918: One of the leading gas turbine manufacturers of today, General Electric, started their gas turbine division.
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• Plug-in hybrid
  ...brid technology has been implemented or proposed in delivery vans, trucks, buses, military vehicles, and other medium- to heavy-duty vehicles. ....nrel.gov/docs/fy07osti/40485.pdf "Cost-Benefit Analysis of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technology"] National Renewable Energy Laboratory conference report
  32 KB (4,593 words) - 03:49, 26 May 2010
• Radiator
  ...p of the vehicle or from a side-mounted grill. For long vehicles, such as buses, side airflow is most common for engine and transmission cooling and top ai ...ns are controlled by a thermostatic switch or the [[engine control unit]]. Electric fans also have the advantage of giving good airflow and cooling at low engi
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• Toronto Transit Commission
  ...ine with a total of 69 stations, as well as 149 connecting surface routes (buses and streetcars) of which 148 routes make 243 connections with a subway or r ...the Rocket" in advertising material, "Rocket" in the names of some express buses, and the upcoming "Toronto Rocket" subway train, which is due to arrive in
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• Continuously Variable Transmission
  ...electric motor and generator. At the extremes, the vehicle can move under electric power without the engine turning, or it can run the engine while stationary *The electric motor operates during high torque demands required to put the vehicle in mo
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• Benz & Cie.
  !align=left|Electric ignition ...ed by the first [[bus]] company: the ''[[Netphener]]'', becoming the first buses in history.
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• Automotive industry
  ...n 1956, which includes automakers (automobiles, light vehicles, trucks and buses) and agriculture machines with factories in Brazil. Anfavea is part of the Through marquees such as Brooks Steam, Redpath, Tudhope, McKay, Galt Gas-Electric, Gray-Dort, Brockville Atlas, C.C.M., and [[McLaughlin automobile|McLaughli
  50 KB (6,757 words) - 15:11, 15 February 2010
• Recreational Vehicle
  Some people craft their own RVs out of cars, vans, school buses, and buses. ...nd modified them so as to fit their beliefs. The conversion of old school buses to this end is popular. A subculture are taking old diesel vehicles and us
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• Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft
  ...railroad extension with its own station and energy from the Neckar's hydro-electric plant which had been built in 1900. ...ler Motor Company produced a variety of vehicles including police cars and buses. The automobiles were distinguished by their radiator shells which had a se
  20 KB (3,054 words) - 02:00, 15 December 2008
• General Motors Company
  ...es to buy out streetcar companies and replace the rail-based services with buses. GM formed United Cities Motor Transit in 1932. ...ntroduced the [[General Motors EV1|EV1]], the first modern mass-produced [[electric car]]. Despite the positive publicity generated by this vehicle, the compan
  30 KB (4,492 words) - 02:35, 11 April 2010
• History of the automobile
  ...gasoline]]- or petrol-fueled internal combustion engine. Cars powered by [[electric power|electricity]] briefly appeared at the turn of the 20th century but la ...car]] owes its beginnings to Hungarian [[Ányos Jedlik]], inventor of the [[electric motor]], and [[Gaston Planté]], who invented the lead-acid battery in 1859
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