Motorcycles
Companies such as Zero Motorcycles and Vectrix have market-ready all-electric motorcycles available now, but the pairing of electrical components and an internal combustion engine (ICE) has made packaging cumbersome, especially for niche brands.
Automobiles and Light Trucks
Microhybrids is a type of small hybrid electric car. Diesel-electric hybrid vehicles may soon see mass-production.
Taxis
Buses
Drive trains of buses consist of conventional diesel engines and gas turbines. A major issue for hybrid buses may still come from cheaper lightweight imports from the former Eastern bloc countries or China.
Trucks
In 2003, GM introduced a hybrid diesel-electric military (light) truck, equipped with a diesel electric and a fuel cell auxiliary power unit. Hybrid electric light trucks were introduced in 2004 by Mercedes Benz (Sprinter) and Micro-Vett SPA (Daily Bimodale).
Military Vehicles
The United States Army’s manned ground vehicles of the Future Combat System all use a hybrid electric drive consisting of a diesel engine to generate electrical power for mobility and all other vehicle subsystems.
Locomotives
In May 2003, JR East started test runs with the so-called NE (new energy) train and validated the system’s functionality (series hybrid with lithium ion battery) in cold regions.
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