21 NEW Buses for De Courcey

[Ally]

Perhaps Hybrid Flywheel technology? It's being fitted to various other vehicles around the country. It makes the buses sound very odd inside though, particularly when braking.

A video of such a contraption when fitted to a Scania N230UD Enviro400:

[Adam 404]

544 has joined the ranks of the Hybrids...
Link: https://www.facebook.com/369276339910972/photos/a.400557893449483.1073741927.369276339910972/493805914124680/?type=3&theater

[Adam 404]

It isn't just hybrids they are refurbing... Here is 821's new interior.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/369276339910972/photos/a.442805479224724.1073742028.369276339910972/493817380790200/?type=3&theater

[Adam 404]

Perhaps Hybrid Flywheel technology? It's being fitted to various other vehicles around the country. It makes the buses sound very odd inside though, particularly when braking.

A video of such a contraption when fitted to a Scania N230UD Enviro400:

It says on the window on 544 that it is "Micro Hybrid Technology"

[barry619]

This alleged (and incorrectly named) 'hybrid' technology is most likely to be an eFan fitment coupled with a smart charging alternator, which is one of the components used by Wrights in its similarly incorrectly termed Micro Hybrid system, and also by ADL and Optare. It electrifies the radiator fans rather than running them hydraulically, and the alternator(s) charge only when the vehicle is slowing, removing a substantial amount of parasitic drag from the engine and thus reducing fuel consumption by up to 10%.

The fans can also be run in reverse via a switch in the engine bay, which clears all the accumulated debris on the radiator very easily. Quite a number of the MAN 14-tonne chassis such as those with DeCourcey have had it fitted, partially because it comprehensively deals with the overheating issues that they have always suffered from.

The government has given some money out to fund such conversions, but whether DeCourcey got any I don't know. Some of First's early StreetLites, which came without Micro Hybrid, are being refitted by the system manufacturer.

[winston]

I thought someone posted on here or elsewhere that DeCourcey had fitted the Eminox system to the Hybrid MAN's that made them up to Euro 6 emissions that NX will be upgrading their fleet with?

[barry619]

They may well be doing so, but they're not 'hybrid MANs'. Fitting some smart alternators and electric radiator fans does not a hybrid make despite what they may like people to think.

[winston]

I didn't  think they'd be hybrids, who's going to spend that kind of money on converting MAN's.....

[Adam 404]

The Local Heroes named are starting to appear on the Hybrid Conversions.

The latest is 548 named Sarah Spurr. https://www.facebook.com/369276339910972/photos/a.411377585700847.1073741960.369276339910972/526658557506082/?type=3&theater
Other named vehicles are:
542: Sir Frederick Gibberd
547: Janet Colgrave

[Adam 404]

The Local Heroes named are starting to appear on the Hybrid Conversions.

The latest is 548 named Sarah Spurr. https://www.facebook.com/369276339910972/photos/a.411377585700847.1073741960.369276339910972/526658557506082/?type=3&theater
Other named vehicles are:
542: Sir Frederick Gibberd
547: Janet Colgrave

549 has the name "Mick McCann" on its side and is freshly repainted. It was on the morning W6.
There is a launch day planned in Coventry City Centre on the 14th of May with all the respective local heroes with their buses.

[Stu]

So, are there actually any NEW buses then?

[Adam 404]

So, are there actually any NEW buses then?

No. Not as far as I am aware. The MCV's are being upgraded and that is it.

[Stu]

No. Not as far as I am aware. The MCV's are being upgraded and that is it.

I was just about to comment on how the original article (and thus the title of this thread) was somehow misleading then, but now I refer back to the original article, I can see it has been amended now. (From memory I do recall it stating new rather than upgraded)

[Adam 404]

I was just about to comment on how the original article (and thus the title of this thread) was somehow misleading then, but now I refer back to the original article, I can see it has been amended now. (From memory I do recall it stating new rather than upgraded)

Yes, you are correct @Stu , the website did originally say "New" rather than "Upgraded".

[Adam 404]

http://centro.org.uk/about-us/news/2016/clean-and-green-local-heroes-hit-the-road-in-coventry/