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Jul 5, 2014

NEW TECHNOLOGY * USA: Zero Emissions diesel trucks

* DC - Clean Diesel Trucks with near zero emissions now make up 33% of all trucks on U.S. highways

(Photo: Trucks idling at a truckers' stop)
Washington,DC,USA -Nassau News Live -July 2, 2014: -- More than one-third of all medium and heavy duty commercial trucks registered in the United States (of N. America) – 2.9 million of 8.8 million trucks – are now equipped with newer technology clean diesel engines, according to new data compiled by HIS Automotive for the Diesel Technology Forum (DTF)... The new data includes total registration information on Class 3-8 trucks from 2007 through 2013 in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Beginning in 2007, all heavy duty diesel trucks sold had to meet particulate emissions levels of no more than 0.01 grams per brake horse-power hour (g/HP-hr) – a level near zero... In December 2000, EPA adopted a rulemaking to establish stringent standards designed to reduce emissions from on-road heavy-duty trucks and buses by up to 95 percent and to cut the allowable levels of sulfur in diesel fuel by 97 percent...


* Georgia - Medium-duty delivery trucks: Meet $4-a-gallon diesel


Atlanta,GA,USA -Today's Trucking(CAN) , by Peter Carter -Jul 3, 2014:  ... Many smaller operators didn’t even bother to track miles per gallons or liters per 100 km... Not no more: Medium-duty deliver trucks? Meet $4-a-gallon diesel... One fleet with tons of experience in this field is UPS. You would be hard pressed to find a company more enthusiastically pursuing efficiency than Big Brown. After all, this is a company that has determined that its no-left turns policy across North America has saved almost 40 million liters of gasoline and diesel over the last 10 years... Running more than 3,000 vehicles of all sizes —34 percent of them are propane powered, UPS Canada operates what it calls a “rolling laboratory"...  UPS is constantly monitoring its fleet to find new ways of using alternative fuel/advanced technology to learn about how new technologies and advancements can be adapted. One result: At last count, Big Brown was running more than 3,150 alternative-fuel and advanced technology vehicles in nine different countries...

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