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TRUCKMAKERS NEWS WORLDWIDE
* USA - Big Wheels Get More Efficient: Volvo Trucks
Washington,DC,USA -The Washington Post, by Warren Brown -March 16, 2008: -- ... Research on getting the most miles per gallon out of vehicles that carry the most people and the most stuff is critically important to the global economy and environment... We'll start first with Volvo Trucks, recently has been wowing transportation and energy officials in the United States and Europe with exhibitions of 18-wheelers powered by its new D7 diesel-electric engine with an integrated starter/alternator motor, the latter of which Volvo dubs I-SAM... To be succinct, the D7-powered 18-wheeler delivers up to 35 percent better fuel economy over commercial trucks with traditional diesel engines... Volvo Trucks, which owns Mack Trucks in the United States and Canada and Renault Trucks in France, eventually will use the D7/I-SAM system throughout its commercial truck lines...
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