Hybrid trucks: Delivering the total package
The shipping industry embraces fuel efficiency with hybrid delivery fleets.
SPECIAL DELIVERY: Many shipping companies are switching their fleets to more eco-friendly trucks. (Photo: Courtesy UPS) Tomorrow's hybrids rely on advanced battery packs and high-density hydraulic systems. These greater improvements in fuel efficiency could help lead companies toward better choices, and eventually this new technology will filter down to mainstream passenger vehicles.
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Hybrid technology is the best technology developing in automotive world and doing great. I agree with Smurf yes the GM is leading this technology.
Hybrid cars are the future cars, In future every automobile company will focus on these cars, So no one knows who will be the next leading Company.
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This hybrid system works great for stop and go traffic because it uses regenerative braking. Not all trucks would be able to benefit from this system, however. If you look at cranes and bucket trucks, they are stationary most of the day. These trucks use a plug in hybrid system that holds a charge for 6-8 hrs. I'm excited to see where technology takes us in alternative fuel source in the next 20 years.
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Definitely think that the automakers need to start producing some hybrid models of the delivery trucks. These trucks are on the road more often than the average driver as they're delivering packages to and fro.
I am a LEED trainer with Everblue Training Institute, so naturally I want to make sure that i protect the the environment anyway possible. This article enlighten me on the the different hybrid vehicles available and how it is beneficial to have. I also believe having Silver or better LEED certified buildings will ensure a better way of living. We will build this planet up on step at a time.
I cant wait untill there is enough Hybrid Utility trucks on the road like a hybrid Bucket Truck
this could save citys tons of tax payers money
Pollution is so 2005....hybrid is the way to go!
I love that our country is trying to become more green and use more recycled products more and more like buying Used trucks.
It's great to see companies making the investment, but until you see $7/gallon for diesel the payback will take longer... particularly because the initial upcharge is so high. I work with Coca-Cola Enterprises, and the hybrids we put in the market (327 of them throughout the US and Canada, what we're pretty sure is the largest heavy-duty hybrid fleet in North America) are about 70% more expensive than similarly sized standard diesel engines. We're trying to lead the way, but unless more.... More
By entering into the postal world and better shipping practices. A major contributor to the green house emissions are shipment companies. By reducing your carbon footprint everyone wins.
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I was wondering whc which is more efficient hybrid hydraulics and hybrid diesels in terms of trucks
Green, organic, sustainable, eco-friendly? Come on guys. These are beautiful sounding words. They lull you into believing that all that new technology is going to save the world. It's not! It never can.
Green, organic, sustainable and eco-friendly in this culture doesn't mean what the words say. It means slightly less grey, slightly less unsustainable and slightly less eco-hostile. In short: slightly less bad for the world, but still devastating. All this stuff still costs amazing.... More
Oil hit $60.00 bbl today, and is expected to rise exponentially from there. A re-vamped, 21st Century, computer controlled rail freight system is a tall order, even for American engineering and technologies, but it is the next big order for those in power, if we are to free ourselves from OPEC blackmail. All inter-city freight must go to rail, 400% more efficient, according to one source, and possibly better if driven by algae sourced bio-diesel, made here in the U.S.A. Choices? Keep the.... More
Corvettes and Cadillacs get > 20 MPG nowadays. How about Lexus, Infinity, Mercedes, and Beemers? Acura? Or do we just make the AMERICAN companies look like the culprit? It's Anti- Americans like you that got us into the trouble we are in regarding the auto industry. Remember which company lost money after 9/11 to stimulate the economy? I give you a clue - NOT any of the ones I named above. Get your head out of your rectum.
With the climate and economy the way it is right now we all need to step up and try to make a difference by doing anything they can to help
It is great that people are thinking about the environment and working to make the world a safer place. Not only cars and trucks are starting to become eco-friendly but dump trucks have come a long way since the earlier models. We are learning and expanding and coming up with a wide range of safer more effective vehicles for the work force. I think it is great that many auto manufacturers are turning to hybrid vehicles to protect the environment and now they are even using hybrid .... More
