* Sweden - Volvo Trucks boosts fuel savings with MY 2016 enhancements
Stockholm,Sweden -Green Car Congress, by Mike Milliken -14 August 2014: -- Volvo Trucks’ model year 2016 VN series heavy-duty highway tractors will deliver greater fuel savings than previous generation models through an assortment of aerodynamic and powertrain enhancements. Further sculpting of airflow around the exterior and underneath the hood improves fuel efficiency by up to 3.5%. Volvo’s new XE-Adaptive Gearing and Torque Management options can provide fuel efficiency improvements of more than 2.5%... Aerodynamic enhancements: Enhancements to the bumper, chassis and roof fairings of model year 2016 VN series highway tractors reduce air turbulence around the vehicle exterior and improve airflow under the truck, around tires and the trailer gap. Reducing turbulence and disruptions in airflow from the tractor to the trailer helps improve fuel efficiency... Powertrain enhancements: XE-Adaptive Gearing and Torque Management. Building on its XE (eXceptional Efficiency) powertrain packages, Volvo will offer an XE-Adaptive Gearing package to further boost fuel efficiency for operations that go out loaded and return empty or lightly loaded, such as bulk haulers, liquid tankers and flatbed carriers. XE-Adaptive Gearing provides the same benefits for dry van trailers operating under the same conditions...
* Belgium - WABCO wins new brake actuator business
Brussels,Belgium -Marketwired/The WSJ (USA) -Aug 14, 2014: -- WABCO Holdings Inc., a leading global supplier of technologies to improve the safety and efficiency of commercial vehicles, today announced that it has been awarded a new long-term agreement by a major manufacturer of commercial vehicles headquartered in Europe. WABCO will supply brake actuator technologies for a new truck platform that will enter into new markets in Southeast Asia. Series production is expected to begin in 2016 at the customer's plant in Thailand... In addition, under the extension of an existing long-term agreement, WABCO's factory in Rayong,Thailand, will continue through 2021 to equip the customer's standardized medium- and heavy-duty truck platform, which is manufactured at its plants in Thailand, India and China... WABCO supplies electronic control systems and solutions for braking, engine transmission and chassis applications that improve vehicle safety and efficiency...Labels: truckmakers news Sweden
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