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Waste Management tries out hydraulic hybrids

Waste Management, the garbage-collecting giant, is adding 4 hydraulic hybrids to its Fort Worth fleet for a bit of field testing. The trucks, which were launched about 6 months ago, are from Peterbilt and use the Eaton Hydraulic Launch Assist (HLA) system to store much of the energy used in braking to help launch the vehicle forward when its time to go again. Not only can the truck reduce its fuel use up to 30 percent, according to William Jackson of Peterbilt, but the hydraulic innovation can double the life of the brakes and greatly reduce ... Read more →

Market for heavy duty hybrids drives Eaton expansion Domenick Yoney

With the cost of diesel still sky high, there is a lot of interest in heavy duty hybrids these days and Eaton Corp. is well positioned to take advantage of the market opportunity. With big truck ...

Things go better with Coca-Cola hybrids Domenick Yoney

As part of its ongoing efforts to green its delivery fleet, Coca-Cola is adding 10 heavy duty hybrid trucks to its South Florida operations. Its national goal of 120 vehicles appears to have increased ...

Guangzhou's Armada buys 207 hybrid buses Xavier Navarro

Armada, an "integrated group mainly engaged in bus tourism" with more than 5,500 buses running, is going to purchase 207 hybrid Eaton buses. The buses come from the same company that recently signed a ...

Missed out on Prius tax credit? $12,000 hybrid tax credit now available Sam Abuelsamid

The tax credits that the federal government offers for buying hybrid vehicles are tied to sales. As the sales of any given model exceed 60,000 units total, the tax credit is phased out. The Toyota ...

Eaton launches production of medium duty truck hybrid systems 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Eaton Corporation has launched production of their new hybrid drive powertrain for medium trucks. Several hundred of the units will be built this year for installation starting in 2008 by truck makers like International, Peterbilt, Kenworth and others. Over 220 trucks have been produced over the ...

Interested in a case study of how FedEx got to where they are with hybrids? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Maybe I should have worded that title a bit differently. Case studies in and of themselves might not make for the most interesting piece of reading, but this one might be an exception. That is, if you are interested in hybrid vehicles and the collaborations of very large American corporations. I am ...

Brown Goes Green: UPS adds 50 new HEV trucks to delivery fleet 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Click image for small photo gallery of the new UPS HEV truck What can brown do for you? It can be more environmentally responsible when its trucks roll up to your doorstep to deliver that Rockford Files Season 2 box set you've been anxiously awaiting. The package delivery company has just added 50 ...

Wal-Mart receives its first Peterbilt hybrid big rig 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/business_finance/Wal_Mart_gets_first_hybrid_big_rig_from_Peterbuilt'; Retail giant Wal-Mart has taken delivery of its (and the industry's) first hybrid Class 8 big rig. The Peterbilt Model 386 Hybrid is the result of a partnership between Peterbuilt and Eaton, latter ...

Peterbilt, Eaton and Wal-Mart partner on diesel-electric hybrid truck 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Wal-Mart has made its intentions very clear to reduce the fuel bill of its massive truck fleet by improving efficiency. We've talked a couple of times about their plans and the latest news is that advanced hybrid technologies jointly developed by Peterbilt Motors Company and Eaton Corporation have ...

Eaton will start production of hybrid drive system for medium duty trucks 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Eaton Corp. has been developing a hybrid drive-train system targeted at medium duty delivery trucks for the past seven years. Eaton has now decided to begin full scale production of the system. There are currently 167 FedEx, UPS and other trucks field testing the system. The pickup and delivery ...

Freightliner will show off new diesel hybrid technology next month 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

A medium-duty walk-in van with diesel-electric hybrid technology will be displayed and available for first drives in the next couple months. The new van chassis from Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp. was developed along with Eaton and Detroit Diesel. Its debut comes at the Technology and ...

Peterbilt shows off medium-duty hybrid truck 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Peterbilt says its new Class 7 hybrid medium-duty truck is good for a 30 to 40 percent reduction in fuel consumption. The company will show off a production-representative model at the Hybrid Truck Users Forum this month in San Diego. The Model 335 will be in limited production and will use a ...

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