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Sep 22, 2015

TRUCKS EMISSIONS * USA: New trucks, much more difficults to meet the new standards

* Indiana - New U.S. truck emissions rules may be tougher than expected

-- The trucking industry is finally hearing some frank discussion about Phase 2 of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Greenhouse Gas Reduction proposal... At the FTR Conference in Indianapolis Wednesday, a Daimler Trucks North America regulatory expert told attendees the standards are likely to be much more difficult to meet than originally believed... Amy Kopin, regulatory and compliance program manager, said because of the variations that are inherent in some of the testing procedures, and the lack of reasonable compliance margins, truck and engine makers may need to design products to exceed the rule's requirements just to come in under the compliance margins, and "that's going to cost us 1.5%" she said... When it comes to aerodynamics, that makes the rule about 2.5% more stringent than it appears... To put this into perspective, Kopin said Daimler's Freightliner SuperTruck – a project developed at a cost of US$30 million – would not meet the Phase 2 proposal as it stands today... If time and money were of less concern than they are, Phase 2 would be great. But with customers demanding 18-month return-on-investment on new technologies and trucks that will stay running for more than a week or two at a time, all of what EPA is asking for is looking increasingly difficult. Nobody wants a repeat of what happened when EPA forced emissions technology onto market in 2007 that had not had enough time for testing... 
Indianapolis, IND, USA - Today's Trucking - 18 Sept 2015

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