Going Green
We make hybrids look like gas guzzlers!
Few people realize that motor coaches are the most fuel efficient form of transportation in the world.
Sure, a coach gets 5 to 9 mpg. (We know some SUVs that don’t do much better!) And the highest mileage Hybrid car gets 60 to 66 mpg. But when you adjust the numbers to account for per-passenger fuel efficiency, the picture looks a little different:
Gallons of fuel needed to go 100 miles:
Hybrid Car: 1.58
Coach: 15.40
Number of occupied seat:
Hybrid Car: 1
Coach: 57
Per-passenger fuel consumption to travel 100 miles:
Hybrid Car: 1.58
Coach: .27
Per-passenger cost to go 100 miles (assuming fully loaded vehicle, fuel price of $3 gallon):
Hybrid Car: $4.74
Coach: $.81
As of 2007, exhaust from a clean diesel bus is so clean it would take 60 new buses to equal the soot emissions of one bus sold in 1988.
By 2010 bus emission levels will be near zero!
