Peterbilt Expands Powertrain Options for Medium-Duty AWD Trucks
Peterbilt is expanding powertrain options, including all wheel drive capabilities with the Paccar PX-8 engine.
Peterbilt Expands LNG Offerings
Peterbilt is expanding its liquefied natural gas platforms. Peterbilt offers the Models 367 LNG and 386 LNG with the Westport HD engine, providing equal horsepower, torque, and efficiency to a diesel-fueled engine.
Johnson Controls launches MyDemoDrive.com to educate consumers on benefits of advanced technology vehicles
Johnson Controls, Inc., launched its Demo Drive website to educate consumers on the benefits of advanced vehicle technology. This interactive tool allows consumers to compare fuel usage, CO2 emissions and travel costs among a vehicle with a standard i…
California ARB to award $800K for Ultra Low-Emitting Locomotive advanced technology demonstration
The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has opened a solicitation for the $800,000 Advanced Technology Demonstration Project for the demonstration of technologies that meet the Ultra Low-Emitting Locomotive emission level or below. The Advanced Techno…
M&G to open 13 Mgpy cellulosic ethanol plant in Italy in 2012
Mossi & Ghisolfi Group (M&G), a Novozymes partner, has broken ground on a 13 million gallons/year (50 million liters) production facility for cellulosic ethanol in Crescentino in northwestern Italy. The plant will be 10 times larger than the largest de…
Daimler and Bosch to establish joint venture for electric motors
Daimler AG and Robert Bosch GmbH plan to expand their long-standing partnership and cooperate in the development and production of electric motors for all-electric vehicles in Europe. The companies have signed a letter of intent and begun negotiations …
UK publishes roadmap for reducing CO2 emissions from commercial and off-highway vehicles
The roadmap features parallel technology streams depending on duty cycle. Click to enlarge.
The UK Automotive Council has published a long-term strategy aimed at helping manufacturers of commercial vehicles and construction equipment move to low-ca…
Wabtec inks deal to build locomotives for Australian firm
Wabtec Corp. announced Monday it has signed a contract to build 22 locomotives for an Australian company.
Jim Buwalda Becomes the Trucker Buddy of the Month for Fe…
The students at John Brown Elementary School in Rathdrum, Idaho, are fortunate to have Jim Buwalda as their Trucker Buddy.
Nanocrystal tandem catalysis a promising approach towards designing high-performance, multifunctional nanostructured catalysts; energy applications
The tandem catalyst. (Image courtesy of Yang group) Click to enlarge.
Researchers with the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have created bi-layered nanocrystals of metal-metal oxide that are the…