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"GREEN" NEWS * USA - Trucking industry turning to hybrids
So what's in hybrids' way?
Washington,DC,USA -The Fort Worth Star Telegram (Fort Worth,TX), by FRANK REVE -Feb 11, 2007: -- ... A combination of fuel-cost pressure, pollution problems and promising technology is drawing virtually all the U.S. trucking industry's leading makers and fleet owners to hybrid trucks. The trucks, which convert braking energy into supplementary power, aren't in mass production yet, but that's almost entirely a pricing issue... In the case of hybrid garbage trucks, New York, Chicago, Houston and other big cities want them. Truckmakers Peterbilt and Oshkosh are keen to build them. And the Environmental Protection Agency is promoting them as ideal platforms for hybrid technologies that work best on vehicles that stop a lot... Fleet owners that are testing hybrid trucks include the Postal Service, which operates 142,000 vehicles, and the two biggest private fleets: UPS (91,000 vehicles) and FedEx (70,000). Companies that do lots of commercial deliveries, such as Coca-Cola, are also testing hybrids. So is the Defense Department... The trucks cut the soot released into the air by 96 percent and nitrogen-oxide pollution by 65 percent compared with diesel counterparts. They also improved fuel efficiency by 57 percent, FedEx spokesman Ryan Furby said... BUT: Mainly, two linked factors: uncertainty about pricing hybrid trucks and how many to make. Prototypes, which are custom-made, offer only vague clues to price. And price and profitability depend on sales volume... As Bradley Bohlmann, an Eaton vice president for new products, said: "There are some big, big bets that need to be made"...
* USA - Odyne Corp Presents Innovative Plug-In Hybrid Technology Message to Influential Fleet Managers in New York and California Markets
Hauppauge,NY,USA -The Auto Channel -12 Feb 2007: -- Odyne Corporation, the leading developer of advanced Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle technology for trucks and buses, presented its innovative plug-in hybrid propulsion technology option to fleet managers at alternative energy forums in California and New York... At a conference panel on “Advanced Technologies and Retrofit/Repower Technologies” in Riverside, California, CEO Roger M. Slotkin highlighted the advantages of Odyne’s plug-in hybrid powertrain and battery management systems...
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