by dankeelan | Jun 20, 2024 | Aerial Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, Hybrids
GE Aerospace is developing a hybrid electric engine with the hopes it will power next-generation narrow-body jets by the middle of the next decade. While the technology is still being tested, should GE be successful, it could produce hybrid-engine jets – like a...
by dankeelan | May 16, 2024 | Diesel, Energy, Hybrids, Trucks
When full-size pickup trucks were first equipped with diesel engines in the late 1970s, it wasn’t part of an effort to post huge performance numbers. Instead, General Motors’ much-maligned 350-cubic-inch diesel V8 was tuned primarily to sip fuel and spun out a paltry...
by dankeelan | Jul 6, 2023 | Electric Vehicles, Hybrids
There’s a new way to track the slow but critical progress toward slashing greenhouse gas emissions on Massachusetts roadways. The state Department of Transportation launched an interactive online dashboard compiling data about...
by dankeelan | Dec 8, 2022 | Electric Vehicles, Hybrids
The have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too feeling of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, or PHEVs, is probably why a survey of nearly 500 PCMag readers overwhelmingly voted them as the electric cars they’d be most likely to buy in the next five years. Unlike a traditional...
by dankeelan | Jul 8, 2021 | Electric Vehicles, Hybrids, Investment, Mobility, Transit
Amtrack is investing $7.3 billion in a new fleet of state-of-the-art trains, including some of its first hybrid-electric powered trains, to modernize its aging fleet and attract more travelers, the company said Wednesday. The company is buying up to 83 new trains that...
by dankeelan | Dec 10, 2020 | Business, Electric Vehicles, Hybrids
Hybrid cars are seeing a quiet resurgence as the boom in electric vehicles spurs automakers to give the older, cheaper technology a second look. This year has been an extraordinary one for electric-car manufacturers. Investors have embraced makers of pure-electric...
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