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Article: EPA shows off hydraulic hybrid technology.(United States. Environmental Protection Agency)
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- New Hampshire Business Review
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- July 21, 2006
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Cramming liquid into tanks and squirting it back out again doesn't sound like much of a high-tech attack on global warming and the energy crisis.
Or does it?
"This could be one of the most important advances in automotive technology--ever," Charles Gray Jr., director of the Environmental Protection Agency's Advanced Technology Division, said during a presentation at Manchester Boston Regional Airport.
Gray and a host of other officials were standing outside the regional UPS facility to show off a demonstration UPS truck that uses "hydraulic hybrid" technology to boost mileage by a whopping 70 percent, compared to about 30 percent for current ...