At the Beijing International Automotive Exhibition truckbrand SAIC Iveco Hongyan launched an LNG version of the Jieshi truck which has a range of up to one thousand kilometres. This achievement is being realised by mounting larger fuel tanks on the truck chassis. According to our sources, the Jieshi consists of a lot of Iveco technology,…… Continue Reading
Renault Trucks comes with the possibility to order two of it’s Euro VI engines destined for the D-series trucks, as suitable for the use biodiesel. Renault offers, the DTI5 240 hp and the DTI8 320 hp, on three of its Euro 6 range trucks compatible with Biodiesel. This can either be 30% of the entire…… Continue Reading
Taxi Electric is the first taxi company in Amsterdam that only runs electric driven cars. Untill now the company made more than 1,5 milion kilometres with the Nissan Leaf elektric cars and now they ordered the new Nissan e-NV200 minivan. These electric taxivans are also going to be introduced in Barcelona. Production of these vans…… Continue Reading
America’s largest retailer WalMart has developed a spectacular truck that is lighter and more aerodynamic than everything we have seen so far. The so called WalMart Advanced Vehicle Experience has a 53 Ft carbon fiber trailer that was developed with trailer manufacturer Great Dane. This trailer is about 1500 kg lighter than a normal trailer.…… Continue Reading
The world’s first liquid air engine – designed to provide the power for refrigerated trailer applications – is about to undertake full on-vehicle testing by the summer of 2014, according to Dearman Engine, the manufacturer behind the concept. The innovative engine concept, which is being developed in the UK in partnership with MIRA (Motor Industry…… Continue Reading
At the Auto Expo 2014 in New Dehli Tata introduced the Tata Prima 4032 LNG. This truck runs on Liquified Natural Gas and it is powered by a Cummins ISLG 320 LNG Engine. This engine gives 320 hp at 2,100 revs and 1,365 Nm of torque at 1,300 revs. The transmission is a 9-speed manual gearbox. The truck is…… Continue Reading
In the run-up to next week’s vote by the Transport Committee of the European Parliament on the revised directive on truck weights and dimensions, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) re-iterates the industry’s commitment to building safety technologies into commercial vehicles. The most significant safety advances, ACEA stresses, will continue to come from a technological…… Continue Reading
The American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy expects trucks to become up to a third more fuel efficient in the upcoming two decades. The ACEEE says so in a report made together with the EPA (US envrionmental ministery) and NHTSA (National traffic Safety Council). A number of technical measurements will lead to trucks becoming…… Continue Reading
Supermarketchain Sainbury’s is testing in daily practice a new refrigerating system which runs on CO2. We’re talking about a generator set created by Carrier, so it’s not yet a fully operational cooling machine. Yet this generatorset is much more silent than conventional machines and it is much cleaner as it uses CO2, carbon dioxide, as…… Continue Reading
More and more operators are looking for an alternative for diesel. In Holland Schouten Rolande is rebuilding Iveco CNG trucks in to LNG. With this liquefied biogas the the trucks have a longer action radius than with compressed CNG. The Iveco trucks come from the factory with an Iveco gas engine, so this is no…… Continue Reading
Bigtruck magazine editie 11 2024
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