{"id":666,"date":"2012-04-01T10:26:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T09:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/?p=666"},"modified":"2012-04-01T21:15:06","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T20:15:06","slug":"new-electric-hybrid-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2012\/04\/new-electric-hybrid-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"New electric hybrid bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/wpid-IMAG14451.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/wpid-IMAG1445.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This <a title=\"Volvo B5L\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volvo_B5L\" target=\"_blank\">new<\/a> <a title=\"No.19 bus route (London)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London_Buses_route_19\" target=\"_blank\">No.19<\/a> has an electric diesel engine and is known as a <a title=\"Hybrid buses in London\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hybrid_buses_in_London\" target=\"_blank\">Hybrid<\/a>. The diesel engine cuts out at bus stops and traffic lights and it pulls away on its electric motor. The diesel kicks in seamlessly after a few seconds.<br \/>\nShould mean less pollution on our streets.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_673\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-673\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Hybrid-Bus-Front.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-673\" title=\"Hybrid-Bus-Front\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Hybrid-Bus-Front-613x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A Wright Gemini 2 hybrid double-decker\" width=\"590\" height=\"985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Hybrid-Bus-Front-613x1024.jpg 613w, https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Hybrid-Bus-Front-179x300.jpg 179w, https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Hybrid-Bus-Front.jpg 1552w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 85vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Wright Gemini 2 hybrid double-decker (Front)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The rattle of the diesel dying at bus stops still feels as though the passengers are all about to ordered off the broken down bus.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_675\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-675\" style=\"width: 179px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Hybrid-Bus-Back.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-675\" title=\"Hybrid-Bus-Back\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Hybrid-Bus-Back-179x300.jpg\" alt=\"A Wright Gemini 2 hybrid double-decker\" width=\"179\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Hybrid-Bus-Back-179x300.jpg 179w, https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Hybrid-Bus-Back-613x1024.jpg 613w, https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Hybrid-Bus-Back.jpg 1552w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 85vw, 179px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Wright Gemini 2 hybrid double-decker (back)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new No.19 has an electric diesel engine and is known as a Hybrid. The diesel engine cuts out at bus stops and traffic lights and it pulls away on its electric motor. The diesel kicks in seamlessly after a few seconds. Should mean less pollution on our streets. The rattle of the diesel dying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2012\/04\/new-electric-hybrid-bus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New electric hybrid bus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[173,174],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techno-wibble","tag-bus","tag-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}