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Article: Aura's Generator into Azure's Balance Hybrid Electric Vehicle Delivered to USPS
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- Manufacturing Close-Up
- Article date:
- September 17, 2009
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Aura Systems, Inc. recently announced that Azure Dynamics Corp.
incorporated the AuraGen generator into its Balance Hybrid Electric
vehicle, which is the newest addition to the United States Postal
Service fleet (USPS).
USPS operates the largest civilian vehicle fleet in the world
with over 220,000 vehicles traveling more than 1.2 billion miles a
year.
In a release on September 3, Aura noted the Balance Hybrid
Electric vehicle is a two-ton step van, and will actively
participate in the USPS fleet in Long Island, New York for a twelve
month pilot program. The vehicle utilizes Azure Dynamics' hybrid
electric drive train on the Ford E-450 chassis and the AuraGen
generator.
Gagerman, Aura's CEO, ...