PowerTorque’s European Correspondent, Will Shiers, has braved the severe winter cold and snowy terrain to bring us a story about test driving the Scania electric semi from Northern Norway across to Sweden.
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Pure Trucking Nostalgia
PowerTorque is in New Zealand this week as part of the process of presenting the Truck of the Year Australasia at the New Zealand Transport, Association, Technical Maintenance and Safety Conference in Christchurch and came across this pure trucking nostalgia.
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Life is a Struggle
It is a fact of life that for just about everybody involved in the trucking industry, life is a struggle, and this is not a complaint or negative comment. This is just a statement of fact.
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Taking Hino Forward
After a period of uncertainty, a reappraisal of the Hino brand and products sees new initiatives taking Hino forward into the next decade.
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Western Star X Series up for Truck of the Year Australasia
The third contender to be profiled here on PowerTorque, features the Western Star X Series up for Truck of the Year Australasia 2024, to be presented in New Zealand next week.
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Looking After the Old Farts
As the trucking industry heads headlong into the new era of new technology, of zero emissions, and all the other gadgets which come along with the latest in technology, perhaps we should also be looking after the old farts.
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X15 HELM, Designed for the Cummins’ Fully Integrated Powertrain
This new advanced diesel engine is Cummins’ most efficient yet, it’s the X15 HELM, designed for the Cummins’ fully integrated powertrain featuring Eaton Cummins Automated Transmission Technologies and Cummins-Meritor.
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A Conduit for Cooperation
It is pleasing to see the reaction on the part of several stakeholders in the trucking industry to the passing of the Closing Loopholes bill in parliament recently, it is not the RSRT lite, which we feared, but seems to be a conduit for cooperation.
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Refrigeration Transition Part Two
In this second instalment looking at the road to zero emission refrigerated transport, in this article, refrigeration transition part two, Revora examines the options available to fleets in the near term, the first stage of the transformation of the fleet.
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The First Electric Contender for ToYA
In an industry where the diesel engine was king, we now have a set of alternative power systems vying to take us into the future, and the first electric contender for ToYA. Diesel is not going to be able to deliver on the lower carbon emissions the world is looking for, right now.
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