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Mar 11, 2015

TRUCKMAKERS NEWS * USA: Mack Trucks' Natural-Gas powered

* Oregon - Mack Trucks updates its Natural-Gas powered semi tractors
-- Natural gas still hasn't really caught on as a fuel for private passenger vehicles, but it's slowly finding more success in commercial applications... The selection of natural-gas commercial vehicles is much larger, and using the fuel in fleets makes more sense from an environmental-impact standpoint than it does for individual cars... One company catering to this market is Mack Trucks, which announced that the natural-gas versions of its Pinnacle series trucks will get a handful of updates this year... All natural-gas Mack Pinnacle models use a Cummins Westport ISX12 G engine that can run on either compressed natural gas (CNG) or liquefied natural gas (LNG)... While natural gas is typically much cheaper than diesels, the trucks themselves are more expensive to start out with--sometimes by as much as a third over a comparable diesel-powered semi tractor... Mack claims cheap fuel lowers the lifetime costs of a natural-gas truck, but the relatively quick turnover time of equipment in fleets means the initial buyers often don't see these savings... (Photo: Mack Pinnacle natural-gas powered truck) Portland, ORE, USA - Green Car Reports, by Stephen Edelstein -Mar 9, 2015

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