RIT and Caterpillar Partner to Enhance Green Manufacturing and Remanufacturing
Rochester Institute of Technology and Caterpillar Inc., have entered into a partnership to increase the implementation of sustainable processes in manufacturing and to enhance green industrial development.
Nadler Reintroduces Clean Ports Act
Rep. Jerrold Nadler reintroduced his bill, the Clean Ports Act, to give ports more authority over drayage operations. The New York Democrat introduced the measure last year but Congress did not act on it, so he is now offering it again.
TWNA Announces Finalists for 2010 Technical Achievement Award
Truck Writers of North America named four finalists for their 2010 Technical Achievement Award during the Technology & Maintenance Council’s annual meeting in Tampa last week.
FMCSA’s "Be Ready. Be Buckled." Contest Deadline is February 28
The annual Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Belt Partnership “Be Ready. Be Buckled.” art contest for children is now in its fourth year, and the deadline for submission to the 2011 contest is February 28.
‘What Are Those Things?’ Liquid Storage Tanks, That’s What
Every so often I see one of these odd, squarish trailers being pulled down an interstate and wonder, “What are those things?” Last fall, while driving down U.S. 23 near Toledo, I spotted a pair parked in a lot and swung around to check ’em out.
Audi names vehicle networking strategy Audi connect; expanding functions in summer 2011
Audi has named its vehicle networking strategy “Audi connect.” Audi is using this term to bundle all of the applications and developments that link current and future models with the Internet with their owners and with the infrastructure.
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UK Carbon Trust to invest 1M in ACAL Energy as part of Polymer Fuel Cell Challenge; longer-term focus on automotive applications
Overview of the FlowCath system. Source: ACAL. Click to enlarge.
The UK’s Carbon Trust has selected ACAL Energy, the developer of FlowCath low-platinum liquid cathode technology (earlier post), for a £1-million (US$1.6-million) investment a…
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The mood at the Mid-America Trucking Show was upbeat as a host of new products were unveiled, including a number of components, eng …more EGR for EPA-2010? Navistar Says it’s all in the Programming – by Jim Park — Round two in the…
Cardinals arrive in Jupiter
Today in sunny Jupiter, Florida where the palm trees make you want to call Southwest Airlines and book a flight, there was some action on the field.
Hyundai • Kia Motors and stakeholders from Nordic Countries sign MoU on fuel cell electric vehicle deployment
Hyundai • Kia Motors and key hydrogen stakeholders from Sweden, Denmark, Norway & Iceland recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the aim of collaboration towards market deployment of zero
emission hydrogen powered fuel cell electri…