No mistake about it, this 1959 Volkswagen Bus has a pair of 36-hp, air-cooled flat-fours on board. But only one of them drives the rear wheels. The other, a midships-mounted VW industrial engine, is ...

School buses are built to be a safe and durable mode of transportation for students around the world. But have you ever wondered what powers these buses? While the outside of a school bus hasn't ...

The Bayfield School District has rolled out a new 71-passenger bus powered by propane instead of the roar of a diesel engine. The quiet hum on a test drive allowed driver Mike Scalet to have a normal ...

Engines on 37 New Flyer buses bought by Sound Transit in 1999 have been so unreliable they will have to be replaced far earlier than expected. The Detroit Diesel engines have been such a maintenance ...

If you've ever ridden a bus in a city -- it doesn't really matter which one -- you know that the engine and transmission situated beneath the floor can get excruciatingly loud, both inside and outside ...

WARRENVILLE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will implement more stringent emissions requirements for on-highway diesel engines beginning in January 2010. As a ...

Nearly all of Metro’s hybrid buses have a flaw with their engines that is going to take a year to fix, according to Metro. Of the agency’s 401 hybrid buses, 351 of them need repairs in what the agency ...

Two related school bus service companies in Illinois filed a federal lawsuit against the company that makes the engines —Illinois-based Navistar International Corporation — for racketeering and fraud ...

Bus 168 was finishing its route dropping off children from Cloverleaf Elementary School in Statesville in May 2021 when the driver and bus monitor noticed smoke coming from the engine. That smoke soon ...

Bayfield schoolbus riders on the route to Vallecito had an early Earth Day present on Tuesday. It's a brand new 71-passenger school bus, and instead of the roar of a diesel engine, it has a quiet hum.