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TRUCKMAKERS NEWS * WORLDWIDE
* Brazil - Daimler to Build Popular Mercedes Truck. In the first half of 2010, Brazil emerged as the truck unit's biggest market
Sao Paulo,SP,Brazil -Agence France-Presse/Industry Week (USA) -Sept. 10, 2010: -- Daimler, a leader in heavy truck manufacturing, said on August 10 that it would build a popular Mercedes-Benz model in Brazil to meet fast growing demand in Latin America... The Actros truck designed for long-distance transport is to be produced in Juis de Fora, southern Brazil, a statement said, in addition to plants in Woerth, southern Germany and Aksaray, central Turkey... In the first half of 2010, Brazil emerged as the truck unit's biggest market, with sales of 21,700 vehicles from a global total of 56,300... Mercedes was surprised by strong growth in Brazil, even though it announced in March an extension of its biggest truck factory outside Europe, in Sao Bernardo do Campo, southern Brazil... Building its trucks close to foreign markets allows Daimler to significantly reduce costs... (Photo from truckswallpapers: Mercedes' Actros)
* Sweden - Volvo Trucks deliveries double in July
(Video from YouTube, by jok3r2u -10 March 2010: truck driving in hungary)
Stockholm,Sweden -Transport Intelligence -31 Aug 2010: -- On a global basis, Volvo Trucks' truck deliveries in July were 116% higher than in the corresponding month last year. The company said that demand for new trucks continues to increase in several markets... Demand in South America remains strong and deliveries rose to 1,489 trucks in July, an increase of 149% compared with July 2009... In Europe, demand is gradually recovering, particularly in Northern and Central Europe. During the first seven months of the year, 14,462 trucks were delivered, an increase of 18%. This can be compared with July, when the increase in Europe was 80%... In North America, deliveries also increased 39% during the year and by a full 149% in July. The rise is largely due to increased demand for long-distance trucks and the fact that the new trucks equipped with new engines in accordance with US10 were well received by customers...
* Sweden - Volvo Trucks the first truck maker to offfer Bio-DME fuel for road going vehicles!
Gothenburg,Sweden -BigLorryBlog (UK) -September 9, 2010: ... Volvo Trucks is the first manufacturer in the world to use Bio-DME (Di-Methyl-Ether) as a 'regular' vehicle fuel with the inauguration this week of a DME filling station in Stockholm by Swedish fuel distributor Preem. As a consequence, the first five Volvo DME trucks in commercial operation are now taking to Sweden's roads... DME, a by-product of wood cellulose, is "highly exciting as a biofuel" say the people at Gothenburg "since it produces no less than 95% lower emissions of carbon dioxide compared with diesel" ... Perhaps more importantly it also requires minimal changes to a conventional diesel engine in order to run with it and has a similar energy level to normal derv... NINE FACTS you don't know about Bio-DME: * Bio-DME delivers as high an efficiency rating and a lower noise level compared with traditional engines.
* Compared with diesel, Bio-DME produces no less than 95 per cent less carbon dioxide emissions.
* Also the combustion process produces very low emissions of particles and nitrogen oxides. All this together makes Bio-DME an ideal fuel for diesel engines.
* Although DME is a gas, it is transformed into liquid at a pressure of just 5 bar.
* Handling it is straightforward as it is no different to liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in that regard.
* DME can be produced both from natural gas and from various types of biomass. When it is made from biomass, it is known as Bio-DME.
* Bio-DME is produced from black lye, an energy-rich, viscous by-product of the pulp industry. Chemrec's pilot plant in Piteå has the capacity to produce four tonnes of Bio-DME a day.
* This project is financed by EU's Seventh Framework Programme, the Swedish Energy Agency and participating companies.
* China’s 2010 Heavy-Duty Truck Sales May Top 1 Million
(Video from Metacafe: Shazhou vehicle company have being specialized in producing trucks and buses since established in 1984, the former was the 7th factory of MUDAN Automobile Group)
Beijing,China -Transport Topics (USA) -8 Sept 2010: -- Sales of new heavy-duty commercial vehicles in China surged 83% from a year ago in the second quarter, ACT Research Co. reported... The increase to 316,725 units put annual Chinese heavy-duty truck sales on a pace to top 1 million units for the first time... ACT, Columbus, Ind., published its quarterly report, “China Commercial Vehicle Outlook,” in partnership with China’s State Information Center, on Friday... The report said that more than 1 million medium- and heavy-duty vehicles combined were sold in China last year... But the report cautioned that sales volume is expected to decline from the second-quarter peak over the second half of the year and into 2011 as China’s economic growth slows...
* China - Truck makers take on global groups
Shanghai,SH,China -The Financial Times (UK), by Patti Waldmeir -September 8 2010: -- International truck makers are facing increasingly tough competition from Chinese commercial vehicle companies, which have already cornered the domestic market and are now aggressively moving on to the export market – especially south-east Asia and Africa... Fuelled in part by the Chinese government stimulus programme, China was the only major market to show growth in the number of vehicles produced in 2009, up 22 per cent... This strong growth allowed China to boost its share of the global market, by volume, to 49 per cent in 2009 from 20 per cent in 2006... Foreign truck makers will benefit from recovery in demand in Europe and North America, where Chinese trucks cannot compete because they cannot meet local emission standards... But in emerging markets which - Alix Partner’s Shanghai office - expects to produce 58 per cent of growth in commercial vehicle demand by 2014, China’s lower cost and lower technology commercial vehicles are posing stiff competition to global truck makers. Chinese exports of commercial vehicles, mostly to emerging markets in Africa and south-east Asia, rose 25 per cent in the first half of 2010 over the first half of last year, to 134,000 units... (Photo from Bloomberg: A woman walking across a parking lot for trucks)* China - 5 Chinese truck makers in global top 15
Shanghai,SH,China -China.org.cn, by Chen Xia -September 9, 2010: -- Five Chinese truck makers - Dongfeng, FAW, Sinotruck, Foton, Shaanxi Automobile - are ranked among the global top 15 heavy-truck suppliers, according to a report on the commercial vehicle industry released by AlixPartners... Other truck makers in the list include Daimler, Tata and Volvo. Of them, Daimler seized first place with an annual production of 259,000 units, followed by Dongfeng and FAW, an annual production of 191,000 and 181,000, respectively... Boosted by the 4-trillion-yuan ($590.93 billion) stimulus package introduced by the Chinese government amid the global financial crisis, China produced 909,000 medium and heavy trucks last year, accounting for 49 percent of the world's total, up 22 percent from 2008... Globally, China was the only car market with a rise in sales. Some 640,000 heavy trucks were sold, an increase of 13 percent from 2008...
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