New York trash trucks start testing Bosch Rexroth hydraulic hybrid
The New York sanitation department has just started a year-long evaluation of a hydrostatic regenerative braking (HRB) system on garbage trucks. The system provided by Bosch Rexroth is a hydraulic launch assist system. This is basically a hydraulic mild hybrid system. During braking, a hydraulic pump is driven off the gearbox to pressurize an accumulator. When the vehicle accelerates, the hydraulic pressure is used to drive a hydraulic motor that provides a mechanical assist to the transmission. Trucks equipped with the HRB system will be operated in all five boroughs of New York to evaluate reliability and fuel savings. New York will be the first city in the country to field test the HRB-equipped trash trucks. Two truck chassis built by Crane Carrier Company will be tested. Bosch estimates the system will save about 2.25 liters of fuel per hour of operation.
[Source: Bosch Rexroth]
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Matt 5:02PM (6/01/2009)
Man, if i could just get my hands on one of those trash trucks I'd have the biggest greenest vehicle on the block... I always did want to ride on the back of one of those.
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cWj 1:09AM (6/02/2009)
Ah, so the Staten Island cops are cracking down on sidewalk bicyclists to pay for this. I don't mind responding to the summons now!
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gorr 9:41AM (6/02/2009)
I have said and i repeat to go 100% hydraulic on these trucks, i will cost less to build, maintain and fuel.
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DasBoese 9:31AM (6/03/2009)
"hydraulic" as in "works with a pressurized fluid", not the element "hydrogen", gorr.
Your pavlovian reflexes have fooled you once again.