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TRUCKMAKERS NEWS at MATS 2012 * USA
The Mid America Trucking Show * Kentucky
* Volvo ups fuel efficiency efforts, positions itself for future
(Photo: The Volvo VNL daycab offers customers a larger – 123-inch bumper-to-back-of-cab -BBC- and is rated up to 80,000 GCWR)
Louisville,KY,USA -The Trucker, by DOROTHY COX -22 March 2012: -- Volvo has championed fuel efficiency from the first EPA emissions rules to the present, but it’s still a “horse race” as far as which alternative fuel truck customers will favor in the future... The natural gas-powered VNL model will be equipped with a 12-liter, 400 horsepower, 1,450 lb-ft. torque Cummins Westport ISX12 G engine that uses cost-effective, clean-burning compressed or liquefied natural gas and requires only a three-way catalyst to meet EPA 2010 emissions standards... Volvo Trucks also showed Mean Green, billed as “the world’s fastest hybrid truck” in its booth at Mid-America... The eye-catching truck was developed utilizing Volvo Group’s hybrid driveline technology, and is equipped with a Volvo D16 engine and a modified version of Volvo’s automated I-Shift gearbox, which interacts with the hybrid’s electric motor...* Anything but your grandaddy's truck ...
(Photo: aerodynamicly talking, the truck is certainly an eye-catcher)
Louisville,KY,USA --Pork Chop Diaries 2012 -March 21, 2012: -- For a few years now, Freightliner has been trotting out its truck-of-the-future prototypes. Today, Mid-America Trucking Show Press Day 2012, we saw the finished product. Sure, it's still a prototype, but it's a working prototype. It rolled up on the stage under its own power... The truck is designed for one person. For starters, there's not even a passenger seat. Better than that, there's not even a passenger door. The truck is optimized for the one-driver operations. The "work" area behind the driver's seat converts into a bunk area in case a driver is out of hours, or just wanting to grab a quick nap during the day... To add to its futuristic appeal, the truck's in-dash controls feature an iPad dock that can run all of the handy apps made just for drivers -- log book, route optimization, you name it...* “Best Peterbilt ever” unveiled at MATS
* Navistar rolls out severe-duty low-cab-forward truck
* WABCO's OptiDrive, a Breakthrough in Modular Automated Manual Transmission Technology, Boosts Fuel Economy up to 5% for Commercial Vehicles
(Photo: Wabco Opti-Drive)
Brussels,Belgium/Louisville,KY,USA -MarketWatch(USA) -Mar 23, 2012: -- WABCO Holdings Inc., a global technology leader and tier-one supplier to the commercial vehicle industry, today announced that its OptiDrive system, a breakthrough in automated manual transmission technology, continues to gain global acceptance among major manufacturers of transmissions, trucks and buses... Superbly engineered as a modular system, OptiDrive reduces by 50 percent the development time required for transmission and original equipment manufacturers to apply it to their respective product platforms... WABCO's OptiDrive improves vehicle control and reduces fuel consumption by as much as five percent through optimized gear shifting...Labels: truckmakers news USA
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