Scania is testing a unique alt-power first, a solar powered truck being tested on public roads. The solar energy decreases operational costs and local emissions significantly because of the truck’s self-produced energy.
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First Hydrogen Truck on Aussie Roads
The drive towards lower emissions and and alt-power trucks continues with the appearance of the first hydrogen truck on Aussie roads. Tim Giles gets behind the wheel of the fuel cell powered truck.
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Typical Urban Delivery Test Route
The objective of this truck test was a simple one. PowerTorque would drive a hybrid electric Hino 300 Series around a typical urban delivery test route in Sydney followed by an identical truck powered only by diesel. Measuring the amount of diesel burnt over the journey for both trucks would give the amount of difference in overall fuel consumption and also the reduction of CO2 going into the atmosphere.
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New Electric Trucks on Offer From Foton
We have seen this brand in Australia before, but now there are new electric trucks on offer from Foton. There have been two previous introductions, by two different importers, to introduce Foton into Australia, with a conventional diesel light duty truck. Both had limited penetration.
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Talking About the ‘Messy Middle’
The fact that zero emission technologies are all new, in development and likely to need serious investment to get up and running and mature for our market, means over the next few years we will be talking about the ‘messy middle’ of uncertainty on zero carbon and a long period before the picture clears and the road to low emissions becomes much clearer.
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Australia is in Danger of Being Left Behind
A new report which has been brought out by the CSIRO points out that in the next couple of decades, we need to completely and radically change our road transport technology, otherwise, Australia is in danger of being left behind again.
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Pooling of Fuel Cell Research Resources
Volvo and Daimler came together to invest in Cellcentric was because they realised the vast research and development costs to get their own fuel cell system up and running would be prohibitive, driving them to come up with an agreement around the pooling of fuel cell research resources, just for the fuel cell itself.
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A Handful of Trucking Snippets
The news this week includes new electric tippers, and refuse trucks as well as more conventional diesel prime movers, also in a handful of trucking snippets are management changes at Volvo and a new camera from Teletrac.
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Tesla Trucks Out in the Wild
After a launch several years ago which looked like a lot of smoke and mirrors and typical Elon Musk hype, there are now Tesla trucks out in the wild. A 12-minute video produced by the North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) has been released focusing on the operational performance of the 21 new Tesla Semi trucks which have gone into operation with PepsiCo in the US.
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Around Our Cities in a Foton
A recent test drive was an opportunity to see how much credibility the Foton will have for the electric truck buyer and what the experience might be for the drivers making deliveries around our cities in a Foton electric truck.
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