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Global truck makers * India - Launch their best machines at the Auto Expo
New Delhi,India -The Economic Times, by Chanchal Pal Chauhan -7 Jan 2010: -- The world’s second-fastest automobile market has drawn global truck makers to launch their best machines in the Auto Expo, even as domestic players upped the ante to take on the competition from foreign majors. On offer were brand new global ranges from the like of Volvo, Navistar and Daimler for prices going up to a crore while Tata Motors and Ashok Leyland announced new platforms and products... The largest truck maker in the world, Daimler, imports the Actros range of trucks to India which is now the backbone of the domestic coal industry. It will soon launch a new range from its Rs 4,400 crore greenfield plant at Chennai. Its closest competitor worldwide, Volvo of Sweden, has launched the country’s most powerful truck at a staggering price of Rs 1 crore... These new generation super trucks boasts features only a few luxury cars are loaded with. Automatic transmission, air suspension systems, adjustable power steering, electronic seats and front and side air bags that are absent in many popular cars are now common in these machines. this apart, they are backed by the regular gizmos. Many of these machines are so big that they are not able to fit into the huge pavilions at the Expo and are drawing the huge attention from the crowd...(Photo: An Audi Front 225 Roadster is displayed at the 10th Auto Expo in New Delhi, India on Tuesday)* Sweden - Volvo first to market with methane-diesel engine
Stockholm,Sweden -Today's Trucking (CAN) -7 Jan 2009: -- After years in development, a diesel engine fueled by a mixture of methane gas and diesel will be introduced by Volvo Trucks... The venture was initially launched in 2007, when the company introduced seven driveable demo trucks adapted for different biofuels. The company has now decided to focus its efforts on DME and a combination of methane gas and diesel... While typically a truck with a spark-ignited engine has a lower range of operation, Volvo tackled this issue by combining methane gas with diesel and using this fuel in a diesel engine, boosting the operating range by over 50 percent, the company claims... The solution is based on Volvo's Euro 5 diesel engines...
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