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John Goreham    May 14, 2012 - 7:45AM

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Strong sales bolstered by high percentages of Hybrid sales
- Note similar to Don Bain's recent story about overall Toyota sales and I will link in paragraph 2 or 3. Will also link to Dennis recent story on Hybrid concept.

John Goreham    May 14, 2012 - 1:34PM

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Provides most of what was cutting edge just in the lasty year on a family car
- Has anone done this story from the press release? I see patrick did a car config story on the 8th and I will link to that, but I don't see a story focused n all the high tech driver assists by For on the Fusion. Will sit on this 30 minutes in case I am missing someone's prior work.

Aaron Turpen    May 14, 2012 - 9:34PM

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Covered this the other day on GreenBigTruck.com. It's a decent idea, but will never really take off. Hybrid big rigs are a bad idea to start with, at least for over the road or heavy hauling. I see this as a good solution for plug-in buses, though.

Nicolas Zart    May 15, 2012 - 11:50AM

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Not necessarily, it's a specific target project. They're in talks with the Port of Los Angeles where adding a few catenaries to existing poles is not a biggy. Plus try to say no to those kids living next to Highway 710 whose lungs will never grow to full capacity due to the pollutants from trucks driving in and out... It's a great idea.

Aaron Turpen    May 15, 2012 - 12:34PM

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There are much better, simpler solutions, though. This one requires a lot of disparate infrastructure improvements, including two things Siemens doesn't seem to mention:

1) the trucks will become heavier (both with new rigging and because they're going hybrid - a huge drawback to hybridization and the reason diesel-electric hybrids in heavy trucking will never catch on).

2) the trucks will either have to reduce the weight of their cargo capacities OR bridge law will have to be amended to allow them to be heavier. Both have negative implications.

Pointing to kids who live near the trucking corridor as victims is a straw man. Ya, it's nice and touchy feely and gives a reason to find improvement, but it's not an argument in favor of this particular idea.

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