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Study * USA - Predicts Growth in Hybrid Trucks
Lifecycle costs of hybrid technology need to come down
Palo Alto,CAL,USA -F & S -May 28, 2010: -- Hybrid truck demand expected to grow over next 6 years across N. America and Europe. Medium-duty market will likely be leader. Hybrids promote fuel efficiency, anti-idling, emissions and noise reduction... Frost & Sullivan study titled "Strategic Analysis of the North American and European Hybrid Truck, Bus and Van Markets"... Hybrid trucks being manufactured in NA and Europe will grow from 4K units in 2009 to 222K in 2016. Vocations using medium-duty trucks have duty cycles suitable to hybrids. Includes refuse trucks, pickup and delivery vehicles, and utility trucks... Stop and go applications ideal for hybrid technology... Regulations, lower prices, demand and volatile energy prices will combine to improve hybrid sales... "Hybrid trucks in the future will have an expanded role to play" Sandeep Kar, global program manager, Frost & Sullivan... (Photo from s.ngeo: Freightliner hybrid electric power makes the most sense for trucks that make numerous stops and starts, like utility vehicles, analysts say)
* Trucks Could Be Next Electric Power Frontier
Washington,DC,USA -National Geographic Daily News, by Ker Than -June 6, 2010: -- Don’t expect to see electric-powered 18-wheelers roaring down the interstate any time soon. What you are more likely to see are smaller highly fuel-efficient utility trucks and buses on neighborhood streets, and lots of them. Analysts project that hundreds of thousands of them will be on our roads within the next five years... A new report by Pike Research, a research marketing firm that focuses on clean technologies, predicts that the global market for hybrid medium and heavy-duty trucks and buses will increase from 9,000 vehicles in 2010 to more than 100,000 vehicles in 2015. This year and next year, mainstream truck brands Navistar and Freightliner will even start to offer medium-duty trucks that run on electric power alone, joining several smaller, new brands that are already on the market... During the five-year period, Pike predicts that more than 300,000 hybrid trucks will be sold worldwide. This would represent a 63 percent year-over-year increase in hybrid truck and bus demand, said report author Dave Hurst... In comparison, the demand for consumer hybrid passenger vehicles such as the Toyota Prius is expected to increase by only about 13 percent year-over-year for the next five years. In the United States, in fact, as the recession hit the car industry overall hard sales of passenger hybrids fell from their 2007 peak of 350,000 sold to just under 300,000 sold last year...
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