A troubled hybrid electric firetruck uses more fuel than expected and is estimated to have been in use for just 14 weeks in its two-year warranty period.
The ACT Emergency Services Agency has found the $1.6 million Rosenbauer truck is consuming more diesel than anticipated, with new documents released under freedom of information laws revealing it would actually use nearly a quarter of the fuel of a normal firetruck.
"Expectation of this appliance was that during operation it would rarely rely on the diesel-powered Energy Backup Unit," a fuel consumption report said.
