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Jan 16, 2016

Synthetic engine oil * Sweden - 2 per cent gain in trucks' fuel economy

* Sweden - Mobil Delvac 1 synthetic engine oil helps Swedish transport company achieve 2% fuel economy

-- In recent trials in Sweden, an independent haulage company achieved 2 per cent fuel savings through use of a low-viscosity, Mobil Delvac™-branded synthetic engine oil. Mertz Transport AB, which operates a fleet of 115 trucks of various makes and is based in Malmö in Sweden’s southernmost county, conducted the trial with two trucks using different synthetic engine oils between December 2013 and October 2014... The 10-month trial, which followed discussions about fuel costs between Mertz Transport and ExxonMobil’s sales and technical engineers in Sweden, involved two new Mercedes Actros Euro V trucks. One used ExxonMobil’s Mobil Delvac™ XHP LE 10W-40 engine oil with the other using lower viscosity Mobil Delvac 1™ LE 5W-30. Both oils meet Mercedes-Benz’s required MB 228.51 lubricant specification for low-ash multigrade engine oils... Both trucks drove the same route with the same freight, between Malmö in southern Sweden and Gothenburg on Sweden’s west coast. The truck using the lower viscosity engine oil, Mobil Delvac 1 LE 5W-30, witnessed a 2 per cent gain in fuel economy, which could translate into a financial saving of SEK 8,454 (ca. £644) per truck, including all related expenses, such as filters and waste oil... 
Malmö, Sweden - Irish Trucker (Ireland) - -14 January 2016

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Apr 9, 2015

ENGINE OILS MAKER * Canada: Chevron launches new heavy duty category

* British Columbia: To protect engines in severe duty operations

-- Chevron Canada Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, maker of heavy duty engine oils, lubricants and coolants, today launched in Canada a new category of heavy duty motor oil designed to address the growth of severe duty applications in on- and off-highway markets. Delo 400 SD SAE 15W-30, which first launched in the U.S.A., is an API CJ-4 heavy duty diesel engine oil formulated using a new Chevron patent pending technology to provide key benefits for engines with “severe duty” cycles in on- and off-highway applications... The increase in severe duty cycles include abrupt changes in truck operating conditions, such as trucks that are prohibited from idling and must have their engines turned off, trucks subject to stop-and-go in heavy traffic or city delivery, or situations where engine cooling may be stressed like towing heavy loads on steep grades or cycling between fully loaded and unloaded in off-road applications, including agriculture and construction. Drivers often report seeing higher operating temperatures in these conditions...
Vancouver, BC, CAN - The Auto Channel - April 7, 2015

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Sep 5, 2013

ENGINE OIL MAKERS * Germany - Shell's new heavy-duty engine oil category

* Germany - Shell hints improvements may be in store with new PC-11 engine oil category. Early tests suggest lower-viscosity engine oils could bring further fuel savings 

Hamburg,Germany -Truck News (CAN), by James Menzies -Aug 28, 2013: -- By 2050, there will be two billion vehicles in the world - 1.2 billion more than today - doubling energy demand from 2000 levels, and most of them will still be powered by conventional liquid fuels. Meanwhile, every single litre of diesel that’s burned results in 2.6 kgs of CO2 being released into the atmosphere... The API PC-11 engine oil category is slated to be rolled out to industry in 2016...  The initial tests of the experimental PC-11 oil revealed no compromise in protection. But perhaps even more promising were the fuel economy results. Five trucks were placed into team operations with a US fleet and four of the five showed fuel economy improvements when running the experimental PC-11 10W-30 oil, Arcy said. The best result was an improvement from 6.52 mpg using the currently available 10W-30, to 6.97 mpg running the PC-11 spec’ oil... However, Arcy admitted the test was set up to evaluate durability, not fuel economy, and therefore he’s reticent to make any promises based on those early findings. Still, “When you look at this data, there’s definitely a fuel economy benefit there,” Arcy said...

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