Alternative Power

Market intelligence from ABI Research recently reported that orders for commercial hybrid vehicles are becoming increasingly significant, particularly in the heavy commercial vehicle market. According to ABI, commercial hybrids are a more economic choice and not so much environmental.

 

While the possibility of reduced emissions is an added bonus, ABI officials claim that hybrid vehicles have noteworthy benefits, such as relative costs and technological merits.

 

"In the consumer market, slightly different versions of parallel hybrid-electric drive are being offered by all the manufacturers," says senior analyst David Alexander in a statement from ABI Research. "In the commercial market, trucks and buses are being equipped with hybrid drives that feature both series and parallel architecture, and hydraulic energy storage as an alternative to electrical."

 

ABI’s latest study examines existing product announcements and design wins, and provides global forecasts of the market for hybrid trucks and buses and major supply components by region through 2012.