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UPS places largest ever order for fleet of green trucks

UPS, a company which already has twenty-five hybrid diesel electric commercial vehicles in operation, is expanding its fleet of green vehicles by ordering an additional two-hundred hybrid electric vehicles and three-hundred compressed natural gas vehicles from Daimler's Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC). This order will more than double Daimler's active fleet of commercial hybrids, as the German company currently has over one-hundred-sixty in service. We wonder if the two-million miles of reliable service that FedEx was able to ... Read more →

Remote hybrid helper concept turns any semi into a hybrid Jeremy Korzeniewski

Click on the image to see more high-res images of the hybrid helper concept Have you ever witnessed a semi truck belching black smoke from its exhaust stacks as it struggles to maintain speed up a ...

Eaton confirms order from Coke for 120 hybrid trucks Sam Abuelsamid

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/politics/Coca_Cola_goes_green_2'; Eaton Corporation has confirmed that Coca-Cola Enterprises has placed the largest single order to date for trucks using the company's ...

Corporate Express will test Isuzu hybrid truck for delivery Xavier Navarro

Corporate Express has announced that it will be one of the first U.S. companies to test an Isuzu hybrid delivery truck for its operations. The model will be a current Isuzu truck in which Enova ...

Why aren't there more hybrid trucks and buses? High cost! Sam Abuelsamid

Transit buses, school buses and local delivery trucks and vans would seem to be a natural application for hybrid drive-train technology, and they are. The short-range, start and stop duty cycle is ...

Navistar first company to enter line production of hybrid commercial trucks 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Navistar announced last week that its subsidy, the International Truck and Engine Corporation, has become the first company to enter line production of hybrid commercial trucks. The truck in question is the mid-sized International DuraStar Hybrid and Navistar says that the diesel-hybrid powertrain ...

Renault Trucks's Hybrys, an urban, hybrid refuse collector 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Renault Trucks has designed a new "innovative, urban, hybrid technology concept vehicle." I think this truck simply must have been named with an eye towards the Google age, to be the first result in an internet search. How else to explain the name "Hybrys"? Anyway, the Hybrys is a parallel diesel ...


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