Work Truck Show 2010

Plenty of clean fuels news at the 2010 Work Truck Show with the Green Truck Summit here for the first time. Here are some of the sights. Shashin Error: unable to retrieve album photos.
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“We can build everything now,” says Bob Carrick of Freightliner, confirming that the truckmaker’s line of “Business Class” M2 112 LNG-fueled trucks has now been augmented by CNG, for which there is a broader fueling infrastructure. On the hybrid side, Freightliner has improved its Business Class M2 106V offering and named a new customer. ‘It’s been...
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Ford sponsored the Work Truck Show newsroom. This mural promotes the new Transit Connect to the press. A CNG/propane-ready Transit Connect in taxi livery and the battery-electric Transit Connect with Azure Dynamics drivetrain were on display at Booth 1779.
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Altec is displaying an Eaton parallel hybrid International DuraStar truck with DM47-TR digger derrick at Booth 4322 at the Work Truck Show. The apparatus has been shown before, says market manager Greg Loew, as the three manufacturers hone the design for commercial launch> Next step? Field tries by HTUF/Hybrid Truck User Forum pioneer Florida Power &...
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Watch for big changes at NGVAmerica as natural gas exploration and production companies step up their advocacy of natural gas (methane) as a vehicle fuel. If all goes well and a contract is signed in the coming weeks, E&P membership in   NGVAmerica will rise from about ten members now to approximately 30, shepherded...
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Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp is debuting its battery electric walk-in van at Booth 3035 at the Work Truck Show, and said the zero-emission vehicle is squarely aimed at the “mainstream.” The battery vehicle, based on FCCC’s MT-45 WIV chassis, has a drivetrain by Southern California’s Enova Systems with a lithium ion battery pack by...
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“I’m a propane advocate,” Jack Roush of Roush Performance Products understated early Wednesday at the Work Truck Show in St. Louis. And How, as Roush is sponsoring and advertising and otherwise talking up its products at both WTS and Calstart’s associated Green Truck Summit — where he is a keynote speaker. “We are targeting the...
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Hydraulic Hybrid Systems, a unit of Lightning Hybrids, is promoting hydraulic hybrid drivetrains at the Work Truck Show. The HHS solution involves inserting a high-efficiency, lightweight hydraulic propulsion system within the drivetrain of a vehicle, the company says, trumpeting a fuel economy improvement of at least 40%. This is possible, says HHS, because “hydraulics can...
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Detroit’s ALTe is calling its new hybrid a REEP, for range extended electric powertrain, and says it’s unveiling the prototype of the plug-in series drive package at the Work Truck Show in St. Louis, Booth 4663. The firm’s strategy is to offer the REEP assembly for retrofit, replacing an existing vehicle’s V-8 and improving fuel...
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Smith Electric Vehicles U.S. is showing a Newton battery electric truck in AT&T livery at the Work Truck Show in St. Louis, and emphasizing noting that the vehicle is now available for purchase via the federal General Services Administration (GSA solicitation QMAE-T4-091003-N). The Smith Newton is the only all-electric medium/heavy-truck offering on the GSA schedule,...
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