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Alternative Fuel Transit Business
First Report - May 1995

Motta, Robert
Chandler, Kevin
Norton, Paul
Kelly, Kenneth J.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

In this pdf format, this document has 26 pages and is 1.95MB.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1
  Overview 1
Buses in the Program 1
Data Collected 3
Reliability 4
  Liquefied Natural Gas 4
Compressed Natural Gas 5
Ethanol 5
Methanol 5
Biodiesel 5
Fuel Economy 6
  Liquefied Natural Gas 7
Compressed Natural Gas 7
Alcohols 8
Biodiesel 8
Costs 8
  Operating Costs 9
  Fuel Costs 9
Maintenance Costs 9
  Liquefied Natural Gas 10
Compressed Natural Gas 10
Ethanol 11
Methanol 11
Biodiesel 12
Cost per Mile Traveled 12
Capitol Costs 12
  Additional Bus Acquisition Costs 12
Facility Costs 13
Emissions 15
  Compressed Natural Gas 16
Alcohols 18
Biodiesel 19
Other Considerations 19
Future Plans 20
Numbers, Numbers, Numbers! 20