Tokyo, June 30, 2010 - (JCN Newswire) - Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), Hino Motors Ltd. (Hino) and Showa Shell Sekiyu K. K. (SSSKK) announced today they plan to begin trials on July 1 of a diesel-electric hybrid transit bus fueled by a CO2 emissions-reducing mixture of Fischer-Tropsch diesel (FTD)(1) and hydrogenated biodiesel(2).
The trials, which are funded by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) under the National Traffic Safety and Environment Laboratory (NTSEL)'s Next-Generation Environmentally Friendly Vehicles Development and Commercialization Project, aim to verify that a FTD-hydrogenated-biodiesel mixture can be used extendedly with unmodified vehicle components, such as fuel hoses and fuel injectors.
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(The success of the biodiesel fuel industry relies heavily on biodiesel testing <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s32Ke2VzrqU>, not only at the production level but at the consumer level, where degraded fuel may cause engine failures. Of major concern to diesel and biodiesel users is the very real possibility that water has contaminated their fuel. (See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YcczdvPyAk). The potential catastrophic impact of this problem is discussed at length in this video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lh4qhXc_5s&feature=youtube_gdata.
Fleet Fuel's family of inexpensive biodiesel test kits is just a click away on the internet at:
<http://fleetbiodiesel.com/biodiesel_testing_and_supplies.html>)