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TRUCKMAKERS NEWS * USA - CONCEPT TRUCKS: Freighliner - Navistar - Peterbilt - * Mercedes-Benz Vans'
* Kentucky - Concept trucks are shaping the future of trucking
(Video, by Transport Media - 26 March 2015: A look at Freightliner's SuperTruck concept introduced last week at the Mid-America Trucking Show)
-- Exercises in truck design can be labor intensive, often spanning several years... Freightliner turns heads with SuperTruck concept vehicle... Freightliner unveiled its impressively futuristic SuperTruck prototype vehicle at the Mid-America Trucking Show this week, capping a five-year development process in conjunction with the U.S. ... Not coincidentally, many of the body forms created for Freightliner’s earlier-generation concept – the Innovation truck – were rolled forward into the development of Revolution, including an internal antenna and utilizing cameras as mirrors... The list of SuperTruck’s accomplishments is impressive: a 115 percent boost in vehicle freight efficiency, compared to conventional tractors on the market today. Other enhancements include a 50.2 percent increase in engine brake, a 54 percent reduction in overall aerodynamic drag and a sustained 12.2 miles per gallon logged at 65 miles per hour on a stretch of I-35 between San Antonio and Dallas, Texas. And Freightliner has already began integrating several features, likeaerodynamic upgrades and the smart transmission, into current units...
-- In 2013, Navistar debuted its Project Horizon – a truck, Chris Ito, director of innovation and design for Navistar, says was designed to make an “aerodynamic statement ” ... Ito says Project Horizon, even though it was based on an International ProStar, was created to showcase some of the emerging technologies at Navistar’s disposal... Among the most striking features on the ultra-aero International ProStar are chassis skirts that fully cover the drag wheels... Ito says of Navistar’s Project Horizon ProStar that updated everything from the production model with the exception of the sleeper sidewalls and the roof...
-- Peterbilt’s Walmart Advanced Vehicle Experience (WAVE) truck is a concept in every definition of the word... Designed and built in collaboration with the world’s largest retailer and trailer manufacturer Great Dane, WAVE features an aggressive teardrop design, and is powered by a fuel-neutral turbine engine that can run on diesel, gasoline, natural gas, DME, hydrogen and other biofuels. The truck and trailer were designed to improve aerodynamics by 20 percent over conventional models... Walmart and Peterbilt wanted an advanced powertrain but concluded, efficiency-wise, a standard diesel engine had been pushed about as far as it could go... Finding an alternative power source also came with unanticipated benefits, which allowed Peterbilt designers to completely reinvent the look of the tractor... Walmart traditionally uses single drivers versus teams, which relegates the passenger seat to a storage area... The truck was rendered full-size in clay and Styrofoam – a process that took upwards of three months – and those efforts gave birth to a trailer body made almost entirely of carbon fiber, cutting the weight by about 4,000 pounds... The truck’s cab was also placed over the engine, shortening its wheelbase and further reducing weight. However, a truck shape that no one had ever seen before coupled with a powertrain no one had ever used before presented a challenge for Kahn’s team... Peterbilt’s WAVE has been met with mostly positive reviews...
Tennessee, KY, USA - CCJ, by Jason Cannon - April 2, 2015
* South Carolina - Mercedes-Benz to build van plant in U.S.A
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(Photo: 2015 Sprinter in 4x4 trim) -- Charleston, SC, USA - Today's Trucking, (CAN), by Rolf Lockwood - Mar 25, 2015
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