BIODIESEL SYNTHETIC DIESEL MIXTURE TO FUEL HYBRID TRANSIT BUS IN TRIALS

摘要

Toyota Motor Corporation, Hino Motors Ltd. and Showa Shell Sekiyu K. K. have announced plans to begin trials of a diesel hybrid electric transit bus fueled by a mixture of Fischer Tropsch diesel (FTD) and hydrogenated biodiesel. The trials will be conducted through the end of December 2010 using a Hino Blue Ribbon City Hybrid, already in service as a Tokyo metropolitan Bureau of Transportation transit bus on various Tokyo routes.