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Clean Heavy Duty Vehicle Conference: Tackling issues of biodiesel, NOx

The Clean Heavy Duty Vehicle Conference wrapped up yesterday near Universal Studios in Los Angeles. A few hundred attendees heard industry experts from manufacturing, government, suppliers and research speak to a variety of topics affecting heavy-duty trucks and buses. Since 2007 marks the first phase of new government regulations on diesel-engine emissions and there's another round of rules coming in 2010, this year's conference focused heavily on new fuels and advanced technology that's coming to market. One conference of special interest ... Read more →

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Caterpillar Inc has just started production of its first U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) certified 2007 model engine with ACERT Technology. The C7 engine is often used in medium-duty ...

The 2 Million Mile Haul: Decker embarks on ambitious biodiesel study Derrick Y. Noh

HCCI update: Prototype in 2008 Derrick Y. Noh

Clean Heavy Duty Vehicle Conference: Tackling issues of biodiesel, NOx 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Trucks ready to roll on EPA's 2007 clean diesel spec 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Industry organisation, Diesel Technology Forum, has announced that all major heavy-duty truck and engine manufacturers have met new Environmental Protection Agency standards for emissions cuts and have been certified by EPA for full production. To meet the new emissions requirements, new long-haul ...

First 2007 Caterpillar Engine with ACERT Technology begins production 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Caterpillar Inc has just started production of its first U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) certified 2007 model engine with ACERT Technology. The C7 engine is often used in medium-duty trucks including school buses, emergency vehicles and recreational vehicles. Caterpillar's 2007 model C13 ...

The 2 Million Mile Haul: Decker embarks on ambitious biodiesel study 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Dale T. Decker, industry and government relations director for Decker Truck Line Inc., has got a new pet project: testing the potential of biodiesel. Now when a company states it's going to conduct real-world testing, you rarely get an accurate control group and conversely, lab conditions offer only ...

HCCI update: Prototype in 2008 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

A couple months ago, Bruno pointed AutoblogGreen readers to a New York Times article summarizing the current status of Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) engines, technology that attempts to take the best of both diesels and gasoline-fueled internal combustion engines. This Engineer ...

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