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Volvo announces bio-dimethyl ether partnership

Dimethyl ether (DME) is one of those fuels that is not well known to the general public but is should be, if for no other reason than it promises up to 95 percent carbon neutrality. According to Wikipedia and my Chemistry 101 book, it's a clean-burning gas that can be sourced from renewable materials. In the case of a project leaded by Volvo, the source is something called "black liquor," an energy-rich, highly viscous by-product of the paper pulp industry. The Volvo project uses 14 Volvo FH trucks that will be tested by selected customers ... Read more →

DOE Expands International Effort to Develop Fuel-Efficient Trucks Sam Abuelsamid

One of the big contributors to rising food prices over the past year has been the cost of getting food from the field to the grocer. Truck drivers across Europe and especially in the UK have been ...

Need green transport? Check out Volvo's range of CO2-free/neutral trucks Sebastian Blanco

In Sweden this past week, Volvo representatives proudly displayed the company's lineup of carbon-neutral trucks. The words Volvo uses to describe the line-up are "carbon free," but emissions still ...

Volvo invests on heavy duty diesels in emerging markets Jeremy Korzeniewski

Every single major automaker is investing heavily in an attempt to meet the demand of emerging markets such as Eastern Europe and China. The industry has termed this group of developing nations the ...

Volvo Trucks sold 105,000 clean trucks in 2006, an all-time high Sebastian Blanco

click photo to enlarge We've had a few manini (Hawaiian pidgin for small-time) stories on Volvo trucks in Europe and how they're cleaner and more fuel efficient than ever before. Companies like them ...


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