On Monday, Daimler Trucks announced that their new Fuso Canter E-CELL electric prototype would be shown at this week’s IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Europe. Now that the truck has debuted, more information is available about it. The E-CELL is a fully battery electric truck (Fuso also has a diesel electric hybrid truck already on [...]
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First Ever Diesel-Electric Hybrid Tank Truck Built by Freightliner
September 20th, 2010 
Aaron Turpen Freightliner Trucks has delivered the world’s first diesel-electric hybrid truck built to be a mobile tank wagon for fuel delivery. The truck is a tanker version of the Business Class M2 106 Hybrid and will be put into service by Diesel Direct in Massachusetts. The Boston-based company will use the custom-designed tank wagon to provide [...]
Volvo Trucks Going Green for Hanover IAA Show
July 9th, 2010 Aaron Turpen Swedish truck-maker Volvo has big, green plans for the biggest big truck show in Europe: the IAA show in Hanover. Volvo Trucks will be featuring their green technologies at the show, including the brand new FMX construction truck and the latest OptiShift transmission. Plus the new diesel electric hybrid driveline planned for the 2011 Volvo [...]
Survey Finds Only 1/2 of All Fleets Monitor Emissions
July 3rd, 2010 Aaron Turpen Image via Wikipedia Fleet management and services company PHH Arval has completed their 2010 Green Survey and found that only 49% of fleet managers are measuring fleet emissions. While the number is relatively dismal, being not even half of all fleets, it is encouraging when compared to past years. In 2008, the PHH survey found [...]
