EPA, UPS Unveil Hybrid Diesel Delivery Truck That Could Trim Fuel Costs, Emissions - GreenHybrid

Jason · #1 (**permalink**) 06-21-2006, 06:13 PM

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The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday unveiled a hybrid diesel vehicle that could reduce the fuel costs of package delivery services like UPS by as much as 70 percent and cut harmful emissions.

The hybrid, which was developed through a partnership between the EPA, UPS, the Army's National Automotive Center, Eaton Corp. and Navistar's International Truck and Engine Corp., combines a high-efficiency diesel engine with a hydraulic propulsion system, which replaces the vehicle's conventional drivetrain and transmission.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060621/ups_h...ruck.html?.v=1

Eskrimast1 · #2 (**permalink**) 06-26-2006, 09:19 PM

Autoblog article here:

http://www.autoblog.com/2006/06/26/e...elivery-truck/

leahbeatle · #3 (**permalink**) 06-27-2006, 02:48 PM

This is potentially huge news! The only hybrid market I've heard about up until now has been in passenger vehicles. Commercial vehicles are a huge piece of the transportation industry, and you can't change the vehicle fleet on the scale that it needs to be changed unless you look at the WHOLE fleet. It remains to be seen whether or how slowly the major trucking companies could really adopt new technologies, but if UPS is a partner already, that gives me hope.