Heavy Duty Trucking, April 2019
Introducing Giti Commercial Truck Tireswww gititrucktires comIts time to talk about the elephant in the road COMMERCIAL TRUCK TIRESTo find out more contactinfo@ gititrucktires comGIT 19018 A Giti Its time Half Page AD 45625 x 75 PUB 3 7 19 with most of the electric vehicles running less than 45 miles per day and consuming only 55 kWh of the batterys 80 kWh capacity Tabel says Isuzu customers have traditionally bought one truck for all their routes Isuzu showed a battery electric N Series cabover at the Work Truck Show in Indianapolis last year a research vehicle to allow the manufacturer to gauge interest from fleets who would use the truck for certain applications Theres room there to optimize the truck to the route long routes for the diesels and shorter for gasoline or maybe electric trucks Tabel says When you look at the possible complexity of the 2021 and beyond vehicle battery electric trucks could make a lot of sense for the consumer APRIL 2019 HDT 41 WWW TRUCKINGINFO COM Vehicle makers collaborate on hydrogen electric fueling Several developers of fuel cell electric vehicles and hydrogen technologies are collaborating to streamline testing of heavy duty hydrogen fueling hardware and help standardize fuel cell electric trucks Air Liquide Hyundai NEL Nikola Motor Shell and Toyota signed a memorandum of understanding for hydrogen fueling components according to a release from Nikola The primary focus of the agreement is to test hydrogen heavy duty vehicle fueling hardware for Class 8 trucks The industry group has created specifications for the fueling nozzle vehicle receptacle dispenser hose and breakaway device components for the purpose of developing requests for proposals to suppliers Lock in fuel prices with Digital Diesel Genesis Fuel Corp s new Digital Diesel is a dynamic and interactive diesel fuel service allowing trucking companies to digitally lock in current diesel prices store digital diesel on the Genesis Fuel Card or multiple cards and convert it to actual diesel fuel at more than 9800 fueling locations nationwide If customers fuel up at a lower price per gallon than their Digital Diesel locked in cost Genesis credits the difference even before the driver pulls out of the truck stop When the pump price is higher than the contracted rate the customer pockets the difference Dana helps fleets crunch the numbers on electric trucks Dana has launched a total cost ownership calculator to help truck buyers compare costs between traditional diesel platforms and full electric powertrain solutions Total cost of ownership calculations include fuel equipment and a total of other costs to provide a summary assessment of the total cost per mile and the total annual cost for operation The user is able to toggle between the diesel evaluation and the full electric evaluation as well as display both calculations for a side by side comparison FUEL IN THE NEWS
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