advertising This fall, Ram Truck will introduce a half-ton 3.0-liter V6 diesel pickup, which will actually top the already best-in-class fuel economy of the 2013 Ram 1500 (reviewed here). It will be a 2014 model Ram 1500 with the label “EcoDiesel” on its nameplate. It will be mated to the same, though re-tuned for diesel, [...]
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Ram to introduce light-duty diesel pickup
February 18th, 2013 
Aaron Turpen 
Posted in Other Alt Fuels 
Tags: chrysler, Diesel engine, Dodge Ram, ecodiesel, ram truck, TorqueFlite, VM Motori 
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Ram Truck confirms all-new commercial large van for N America based on Fiat Ducato
December 21st, 2012 Aaron Turpen advertising Ram Truck will develop a new large van for the North American market. The 2014 Ram ProMaster will go on sale beginning in the 3rd quarter 2013 and will join the smaller Ram Cargo Van as an additional van offering to compete with other full-size commercial vans. Based on the Fiat Ducato, the Ram [...]
Posted in Featured Tags: chrysler, cummins, Diesel engine, Dodge Ram, Fiat Ducato, Flexible-fuel vehicle, ram truck No Comments »Aura receives $370K order for electric retrofitting system for refrigeration trailers
August 21st, 2012 Aaron Turpen Aura Systems, Inc. announced the first order from a Midwest meat packaging company for its electric solution for large refrigeration trailers. The order calls for Aura to retrofit 20 existing Thermo King based trailer mechanical solutions with an electric solution and provide 15 tractors with 18 kW AuraGen generators. Trucks that utilize the Aura solution will no [...]
Fuso Canter EcoHybrid Enters the Fray
July 3rd, 2012 Aaron Turpen Designed at Daimler’s Global Hybrid Centre in Japan, the new EcoHybrid is true to the manufacturer’s “Shaping Future Transportation” initiative, which seeks to make the zero-emission commercial vehicles of tomorrow, a reality today. The new EcoHybrid Fuso Canter has a 7.5-tonne gross vehicle weight and is ideally suited to short radius city centre deliveries. It [...]
