* Nevada - Trucks with a powertrain built by Wrightspeed
-- Garbage trucks are among the dirtiest trucks cities have. The more refuse they clean from the streets, the more pollution they may add to the atmosphere... One possible solution for reducing this pollution was at the WasteExpo, a waste management and recycling conference held Tuesday through Thursday at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Mack Trucks, a North Carolina-based manufacturing company, paired one of its trucks with a powertrain built by Wrightspeed, a company started by Tesla co-founder Ian Wright... Wright describes a powertrain as the parts of a vehicle that make it move, such as the engine, electric motors and range extender... The Route 1000 Powertrain Electric Drive System is built with garbage trucks in mind. Because garbage trucks use brakes extensively, Wrightspeed added a regenerative braking system to reduce wear and extend brakes’ life. Other energy-saving features include 24 miles of range on storage batteries, LED lighting, a battery cooling system and a Fulcrum Turbine Generator that can burn diesel or natural gas to extend the driving range... Wright said garbage trucks can become up to 700 pounds lighter, depending on the size of the battery pack, with an efficient power train. Wrightspeed engineer Nicholas Liotta said garbage trucks also become quieter and cleaner than their conventional diesel engine counterparts, because they don’t require their engine turbines to be on as much...
(Image: A Mack Truck eletrified by Wrightspeed) -- Las Vegas, NEV, USA - The Las Vegas Review-Journal, by Rocio Hernandez - June 8, 2016
* Indiana - New technology on Borden garbage trucks means less pollution, noise
--- Hydraulics store energy when garbage trucks brake and release it when they accelerate, cutting fuel consumption and noise from squealing brakes... Borden Waste-Away announced this week that its fleet of garbage trucks is using the new iNTELLIDRIVE system, which was developed by Stored Energy Solutions. The new system will cut fuel costs and increase the efficiency of the trucks, said Chris Himes, president of Borden Waste-Away... Garbage trucks spend hours each day stopping and accelerating repeatedly between customers, especially in residential neighborhoods. That wastes a lot of energy with starting a heavy duty truck from a dead stop and stopping again... The iNTELLIDRIVE system uses hydraulics to store energy when garbage trucks brake and then release it when trucks accelerate. Himes said the recycled energy reduces the need to run the engine at full power, which exhaust emissions by 90 percent. The trucks' engines can run at idle speed, significant reducing fuel consumption...
(Truth Photo by J. Tyler Klassen/AP - A Borden Waste Away truck picks up trash along Indiana Ave. Friday afternoon 9/17/2010. As city officials plan the next budget they are considering ways to pay for trash collection) -- Elkhart, IND, USA - The Elkhart Truth, by Alexandra Smith - June 9, 2016
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