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Japanese trucks case CO2 emissions by using off-board AC systems

Tokyo Electric Power Co and Hino Motors, Ltd have announced the results of a 14-month test of a jointly-developed cab heating and air-conditioning system, called Stop Idling, where parked trucks drew power form an external source instead of leaving the engine running. The result: CO2 emissions dropped about 97 percent and fuel costs by about 98 percent. It only makes sense that these numbers must be comparing the off-board system's pollution and cost to a truck's self-contained system, otherwise those numbers would be 100 percent, right? This ... Read more →

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