DoE & Execs at Green Truck Summit & Work Truck Show
The term “green fleet” will become just “fleet” over the next decade as sustainability becomes business as usual. “Sustainability and the green industry are here to stay,” says Lee Styslinger III, chairman and CEO of aerial lift specialist Altec.
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Nearly Half a Dozen Vehicles at the Work Truck Show
Once again, Landi Renzo USA was all over the NTEA Work Truck Show in Indianapolis, with its compressed natural gas upfits visible on even more vehicles than last year (F&F, March 9, 2012).
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Taking Bids Until March 22 As It Ramps Up Production
Electric Vehicles International is seeking bids for motors,
controllers, charging systems,
EVSE (electrical vehicle supply equipment) and die casting and metal fabrication services as it ramps up production of all-battery trucks in Stockton, Calif. EVI is taking bids until March 22.
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Stockton, Calif.-based Electric Vehicles International has begin delivery of 100 fully battery electric delivery trucks to UPS.
post updated on August 13
Shown here is the first photos we’ve seen of Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp’s eCell battery electric trucks – with the new, aerodynamic Morgan Olson body unveiled at HTUF 2010 in Michigan – in UPS livery.
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Key Executives Have Departed, as Firm Has ‘Cratered’
Enova Systems reports that it’s being delisted from the New York Stock Exchange for failing to meet stockholders’ equity requirements and for posting too many consecutive years of losses.
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Better Performance and Pricing Promised for Coming Year
Parker Hannifin’s RunWise brand series hydraulic hybrid drivetrain has been performing even better than expected in Autocar E3 refuse trucks, prompting the company to predict a sales surge, to three figures, for its new financial year commencing July 1.
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FedEx Express is boosting its all-electric fleet from 43 units to 130, evaluating vehicles from large companies and small. The goal is for the new battery trucks to be “delivering packages this summer.”
The San Francisco Bay Area is getting the most, with 34 trucks: 21 Smith Newtons and nine new Navistar International eStars (plus four reconditioned ones). All of the eStars have drivelines from the UK’s Zytek.
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Clear Evidence that Money Not Mandates is Driving Clean Vehicles,
Conference & Show ‘Exceeded Expectations in Every Way Imaginable’
It was a great week for clean vehicle professionals who came to Long Beach, Calif. for the Alternative Clean Transportation Expo and Conference, and it was a great week for the organizer, Gladstein, Neandross & Associates.
GNA pulled off a sold-out event that drew not only vendors but customers, who are fast realizing that cleaner can be cheaper.
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Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp introduced its S2G chassis, which it says “provides the industry with the only factory-installed liquid propane gas (LPG) engine available to the medium-duty truck market.”
Initial target? Propane dealers, who get the fuel cheap.
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