Japanese truckmanufactorer Hino has presented the Profia heavy tractor. The trucks come with tow engines: There is the 8,9 litre sixpot turbodiesel with 355 Hp and 1570 Nm of torque. Also there is a 12,9 litre six-cilinder with 470 or 530 Hp and a max torque of 2160 Nm. There are manual and automatic gearboxes available.… Continue Reading
The last posting was about the new Iveco truck. The heavy photoshopped illustration showed what could be the next Iveco truck but it could also be one big fantasy of an artist. However something is cooking in the design departement in Italy. These photo’s were send in today and the only thing they show is…… Continue Reading
This photo was sent in to iepieleaks and it shows what could be the next Iveco heavy truck. It could also be a very good photoshop, but there are some details that do make sense. The lines in the grille do look like the latest Daily so the design could be right. The cab is…… Continue Reading
Spanish coach and bus builder Irizar has presented an electric truck. After VDL that is the second coach and busbuilder that presents an electric transport sollution for cargo. The truck was presented during the opening of a completely new e-mobilityfactory in the Spanish town Aduna. Irizar invested 75 milion Euro in the new plant where…… Continue Reading
Dutch company VDL has presented a full electric DAF CF truck today. DAF and VDL also anounched a partnership for developing and building electrical vehicles. The truck is based on a DAF CF 4×2 tractor unit. The 18 ton truck has 210 kW and is equiped with 170 kWh Li-Ion batterys. The range is 100…… Continue Reading
Kenworth has presented a prototype of the T680 tractor unit with a parallel hybrid electric propulsion system. The truck debuted at the Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo in 2018. The truck is part of the Hybrid Emission Cargo Transport (HECT) demonstration project, which is partly funded by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE),…… Continue Reading
Beer brewer Anheuser Busch ordered 40 Tesla trucks. Now the company has ordered a large number of hydrogen trucks at the biggest competitor of Tesla, Nikola. The lawsuit that Nikola filed agianst Tesla, does not impress Anheuser Busch. The giant beer company intends to produce its Budweiser beers with renewable energy by the year 2020.…… Continue Reading
Daimler has introduced the Econic in the USA under the Freightliner brand. The low entry cab of the Econic is the ideal vehicle for the typical American way of collecting garbaged, over the cab. The biggest difference with the European Mercedes-Benz version is the engine. Instead of the OM 936 LA the Freightliner EconicSD has the…… Continue Reading
European legislation is deu to change and that makes it possible to replace mirrors with camera systems. On these photo’s that Truckphoto Helsingborg send us we see a Volvo FH with a special bar on the roof. On the end of this wide roof bar we see a camera system. Probably we are going to…… Continue Reading
These photo’s popped up in our mailbox. An anonymous Iepieleaks friend, or spie if you like found the pictures of this Scania R450 6×2 tractor. The photo’s were shot in Illinois, USA. Now since a failed atempt to enter the USA market in the eighties Scania did not sell trucks in North America. At this…… Continue Reading
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