* UK- New Mercedes-Benz Atego is a Clear winner
London,EN,UK -HGV UK -May 5, 2011: -- Entrepreneur Chris Hocken is boxing clever with his new venture – an eye-catching, mobile promotional space mounted on a Mercedes-Benz Atego chassis... He has just launched The Clear Idea in exclusive partnership with Mercedes-Benz UK and hopes to have one vehicle based in each of five major cities by the end of his first year in business. “The Clear Idea is a new, innovative and exclusive concept designed and engineered to promote products and services via a transparent mobile box” ... Like all Atego trucks with manual transmissions, the truck also came fitted with the innovative MSS (Motor Stop Start) system. This boosts fuel economy and cuts emissions, simply by switching off the engine whenever the vehicle is in neutral and stationary for three seconds – for example in heavy traffic or at lights – then switching it back on again automatically as soon as the driver depresses the clutch...* France - French company unveils all-electric refuse truck
Paris,France -Reuters/Fleet Owner (USA), by Brian Straight -May 6, 2011: -- A waste management company in France is set to begin the rollout of all-electric garbage trucks to clean the streets of the Paris suburb of Courbevoie. By the end of the year, SITA France expects to have 11 of the vehicles in operation and plans to replace the entire fleet eventually... The trucks were developed by PVI and Dow Kokam, a subsidiary of Dow Chemical. They use an advanced lithium polymer battery and all elements of the trucks and collecting refuse bins are electric. The 26-ton, zero-emission truck will eliminate 130 tons of CO2 per truck per year, the companies said...
* India - Tata Motors pins hopes on twin-track approach
Mumbai,India -FT (UK), by Peter Marsh -May 8 2011: -- Tata Motors has set its sights on being an “unconventional global player” in the automotive industry, drawing out important benefits from its twin bases in India and Britain, according to Carl-Peter Forster, the chief executive and a German car industry veteran... Mr Forster concedes that the combination of operations at Tata Motors – part of India’s Tata industrial group, and the country’s largest automotive supplier – is unusual by the standards of the global vehicle industry... In the year to March, Tata Motors produced 1.1m vehicles – a small figure by the standards of the world’s biggest automotive businesses such as Toyota and Ford... Of the total, slightly less than half were medium and heavy trucks, of which the company is the world’s fourth-biggest producer. The company’s car output during the year of 512,000 vehicles was split about equally between operations in India and Britain...(Image from 2.bp.blogspot: Tata World truck)* Belgium - Wabco supplies MAN with new air disc brakes
Brussels, Belgium -Transport Engineer -3 May 2011: -- Wabco has announced details of the first supplier deal for its NG22MAX air disc brakes, with MAN's European trucks... The single-piston NG22MAX is compact and, at 39kg, is the lightest air disc brake of its kind, according to Wabco... Nikhil Varty, Wabco vice president, compression and braking, makes the point that this light weighting allows trucks to increase payload and improve fuel economy... He also says that the new air disc brake reduces maintenance and service costs, due to increased brake pad thickness and exchangeable wear sensors... (Image from media.cygnus: WABCO presents a new generation of Air Disc Brakes)
12:25 AM
Admin
