The last ever Ford Falcon has been teased a year ahead of its arrival in local showrooms. Ford Australia revealed little of the new car’s shape – showing only parts of the vehicle including a muscular-looking front end, a ...
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It has been a mediocre first half of the year for new truck orders, but a spectacular one for Freightliner relative to its competition. Mark Lampert, senior vice-president of sales and marketing, today projected 2013 will end with Class 8 ...
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EPA10 generation engines now make up 11% of all heavy truck registrations in the US, and have reduced fuel consumption by as much as 560 million gallons while keeping 5.7 million tonnes of CO2 from entering the atmosphere. Those were the ...
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To help meet growing demand for fuel-efficient transmissions, ZF Friedrichshafen AG announced last month a $215 million expansion of the company's plant here. ZF plans to boost production of eight- and nine-speed automatic transmissions ...
Navistar has announced it has re-launched the International TranStar regional haul tractor with the MaxxForce 13 engine with SCR. The TranStar has become the fifth heavy-duty International truck to transition to SCR since December 2012. ...
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Wheels Task Force of Steel Market Development Institute (SMDI), a division of American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), has developed a lightweight steel wheel which is claimed to be equivalent in mass to a comparable aluminum wheel but 40% ...
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Goodyear's new UniCircle treads, including the G392 (above) and the G394, are for wide-base truck tires. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has rolled out two new UniCircle spliceless treads to help fleets extend the service life of popular ...
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Strategy Analytics has identified potential growth, a $1bn shift, for lithium battery business according to its new report - New Hybrid & Stop-Start Powertrains Offer Greater Potential For Lithium Batteries. The report shows that to meet ...
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Automotive components supplier Federal-Mogul has introduced an Elastothermic piston that cab used in the powertrains of the compact gasoline vehicles. The new piston is claimed to enable the vehicle manufacturers to increase power density ...
Japanese automakers including Toyota, Nissan, Honda, and Mitsubishi have joined hands to build charging infrastructures for electric-powered vehicles including Plug-in Hybrids (PHVs), plug-in hybrid electrics (PHEV) and electric vehicles ...
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Who says natural gas trucks can't be aerodynamic? Freightliner has partnered with one of the most experienced natural gas fleets in the US to create a new 113-inch BBC day cab Cascadia with advanced aerodynamics. The first 10 of these ...
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US-based automobile manufacturer Ford Motor has unveiled it new 2014 F-150 Tremor sport truck in the US to meet the requirements of street truck enthusiasts. The vehicle is powered by a 3.5L EcoBoost engine with twin independent ...
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German vehicle manufacturer Mercedes-Benz has introduced the new nine-speed automatic transmission with torque converter, the 9G-TRONIC in its E 350 BlueTEC engine. The new transmission is claimed to have reduced the fuel consumption of ...
British luxury carmaker Jaguar is planning to launch three new entry-level, affordable car models by the second half of 2015, which would be built using aluminum. The new models will include an XS compact saloon and its wagon variant, in ...
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Wilmar International Limited, one of Asia's leading agribusinesses, and Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc., a high-growth specialty chemicals company, have begun shipping commercial products, including novel specialty chemicals, to ...
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