Energy 101 - Sustainable Public Transportation.

Energy 101 - Sustainable Public Transportation by DOE.

You may already know that public transportation reduces pollution and eases congestion on the road. However, many transit fleets are switching over to cleaner, alternative fuels and technologies, making this mode of transportation even more sustainable. Watch this video for examples of clean fleets, in busy urban centers and peaceful national parks.

From America's streets to our national parks, millions of Americans rely on public transportation to get them around. We already know that public transportation reduces pollution and eases congestion on the road. And as communities become more sustainable, many transit fleets are switching over to cleaner, alternative fuels and technologies like the hybrid-electric buses that produce fewer pollutants and noise than the diesel buses, all-electric plug-in buses that are zero-emissions and recharge automatically in just a few minutes along their routes while passengers load and unload at one of the charging stops, and CNG (compressed natural gas) vehicles that get about the same mileage as a gasoline-powered vehicle, but natural gas burns cleaner than diesel and produces less carbon pollution. Plus, they're a lot quieter! Natural gas is also much more predictable in price, and between 1 and 2 dollars cheaper per gallon than gasoline, allowing for more miles on less money..

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