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WORK TRUCK SHOW & GREEN TRUCK SUMMIT
TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2012
Green Truck–Work Truck 2012 More News Content Published Online www.showtimesdaily.com
GM Launches Bi-Fuels Vans with large gasoline tanks augment dedicated-CNG vans launched in 2010, Impco to do the new bi-fuels too. —Page 5
Chrysler Rams on CNG
U.S. Energy Secretary Dr. Steven Chu embarks on his tour of the still-building Work Truck Show floor...
...with Steve Sill, president of NTEA and Aspen Equipment
Announcement expected here this morning as Ohio firm offers upfits. —Page 6
Hino Hybrid: Late Summer The new cabover line including hybrid trucks is now expected in late summer 2012. Hino Trucks has meanwhile won a biodiesel ‘Impact’ award. —Page 6
CNG from Freightliner Daimler unit is showing the new SD114, its first model ever to be available from the initial production run with the option of compressed natural gas fuel. —Page 8
Propane Done Right
...with Wayne Eckerle of Cummins and Richard Saward of Freightliner
...with Mark Baer of Altec Industries
U.S. Energy Secretary Dr. Steven Chu took a tour of the Work Truck Show 2012 exhibit floor yesterday, getting a crash course on truck electrification, alternative fuels like propane and CNG, weight-savings – and, perhaps most importantly, on how OEMs depend on National Truck Equipment Association members to make their trucks useful – and fit them with energy-saving features. Dr. Chu visited the Calstart Clean Tech and Fuels Pavilion, Freightliner Trucks and Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp, Knapheide, Ford, BrandFX Body, the NTEA display, Clean Cities, and Altec Industries. He also spoke at the Calstart-NTEA Green Truck Summit, which continues today. —Page 6
Propane Education & Research Council expert talks turkey on safety. —Page 12
Top U.S. Energy Man Backs Green Trucks
Got Ultracaps?
Clean vehicles too expensive because there are so few of them? “We’re going to make them cheaper so you can deploy more,” U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said here yesterday. At the Green Truck Summit he outlined plans to use increased computer power to model engines, aerodynamics, structures and tires to slash the time to design
Maxwell does, and will soon have more, as it increases production of the lightweight alternative to batteries. —Page 11
Pay as You Save Navistar International promises a full line of natural gas trucks, with Clean Energy to front incremental cost to be paid back from fuel savings. FCCC has Enova drive battery walk-in vans – ‘Green for Free’ partners will front incremental cost to be paid back from fuel savings. —Page 13
new vehicles by 50%. This should drive down the price premium over conventional vehicles, halving the payback time to two years. “We’re shifting [R&D] money to transportation from stationary sources,” he said.
BAE Progress HybriDrive Parallel drivetrain put to work in New York as BAE inks 20-year pact with its transmission supplier BAE HybriDrive Kenworth dump truck to Caterpillar. work at the Work Truck Show this week. —Page 9