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EU Truck plans will also work in SA IT is not only in South Africa where towns want truckers to buy diesel and then dissappear, with very few making space for drivers to eat, sleep and ablute. Most of Europe to has this attitude, as explained by Daimler board member dr Wolfgang Bernhard at the International Press Workshop of the 66th IAA Commercial Vehicles show, which will take place in Hannover, Germany from 22 to 29 September. Explaining the seven levers a truck operator will have to pull to reach the emission targets set by the EU by 2020, the Daimler boss also called for Australia style road trains to be allowed to drive across European borders, which is now allowed at the moment. "A long combination vehicle must be able to cover long distances. Only then can you realise its full benefit. But today
on below). But that is in the future. To make money today, diesel truck operators need to pull finger on all seven levers that are available to make trucking effcient. These are tractor, trailer, tires, fuel, operations, infrastructure, and fleet renewal, said he good herr doctor. "At Daimler Trucks we’ve proven this integrated approach works in practice: In 2015 in our field test our optimised truck saved 12 to Photo: 14%. The long combination vehicle Mark even achieved 17%.We’re Smyth continuing to build on that test right one cannot drive a long combination border – but also behind the border now. We want to put into practice what we tested in 2015, making it for reassembling the long vehicle from the Netherlands to combination vehicle. It’s a waste of robust and affordable. Lower Saxony – although both of "As you can see, we can look time and money. It’s absurd." them allow it. Dr Bernard hinted Daimler is also forward to the truck of tomorrow. "I have to uncouple the vehicle Even more so, because Europe has ahead of the border. And one has to working on an electric truck, and you read it here first the prediction the opportunity to be in a leading allocate the cargo to two vehicles. position. Let’s work towards that that the will be a turbine electric To do this, one also needs together!" --WR. appropriate truck stops: ahead of the hybrid like the Nikola 1 (reported
DESPITE all the reservations this newsletter still has about the truck that sounds to good to be true, over 7,000 American truck operators had no such doubts. They all paid a $1500 "refundable
deposit" to Nikola Motor Company, handing founder and CEO Trevor Milton R33,9 billion ($2.3 billion) to start the com-pany to build the new trucks. Inspired by the same genius, Nicola Tesla, who Elon
The Mercedes Future Truck 2025 and its project leader, Georg Stefan Hagemann
Nikola I truck does not sound too good to be true to Americans who hand over $2,3 bln Musk named his electric cars after, Milton said the technology in the “Nikola 1.” is at least a decade ahead of any other truck out there. In saying so, Milton ignores Wrightspeed, who makes turbine-
gas hybrids drive-trains, and Mercedes-Benz's plans. Will Milton deliver on the Nikola 1like Elon Musk did with his Tesla cars, or will it be a runner, like SA's Joule car? Watch this space. --WR.