Project aims to reduce vehicle emissions by 10 percent

The Engineer
April 19, 2011

A UK consortium led by Wrightbus and including Queen’s University Belfast, Revolve Technologies and Ricardo is to carry out research that aims to further reduce power consumption and CO₂ emissions in hybrid diesel-electric buses.

The three-year TERS (Thermal Energy Recovery Systems) project aims to reduce vehicle CO₂ emissions by 10 per cent through the use of waste-heat recovery systems while also reducing the average power consumption of air-conditioning systems by half, further improving fuel consumption.

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