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Allison Transmission @ IFAT
At IFAT in Munich, Allison is presenting transmissions for alternative technologies to the Diesel ICE, from fuel-agnostic propulsion solutions to Allison eGen Power fully electric axles for municipal and refuse collection vehicles
MAN’s D38 hydrogen engine has found a home on the truck
MAN Engines supplied the hydrogen-powered D38 for 200 hTGX trucks. MAN has also recently developed hydrogen engines for a snow groomer and a stationary CHP plant
Caterpillar likes HVO for rental power solutions
Caterpillar Rental Power Solutions Deployed By Peterson Power Systems Surpass 8 Million Gallons In HVO Fuel Use
Wacker Neuson pushes on electrification
Wacker Neuson's commitment to decarbonization is combined with electrification of new rammers, vibratory plates and dumpers
Kubota joins the Allianz Hydrogen Engine
Kubota has joined the Allianz Hydrogen Engine, an organisation which pools knowledge from industry and research. Kubota’s own concept 3.8L 85 kW hydrogen engine has already been publicly unveiled and has already been attracting widespread industry interest.
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AS Labruna at the DPE Rimini with LF and start-up MOVe
AS Labruna was present at the DPE - International Electricity Expo in Rimini with LF, FPT Industrial dealer for North Africa, and MOVe, startup for the electrification of on-road vehicles, such as the Metrocab of Fresia
FPT Industrial: let’s go, XC13
The XC13 surely sounds agnostic in FPT Industrial’s unofficial nomenclature; it comes, indeed, with a tripartite certification: Euro 6E (winking an eye at the upcoming Euro 7), methane gas and also biofuel, with a link to hydrogen. Andrea Abbà, FPT’s product marketing manager, told us about dialogui...
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Volvo Penta Stage V
Volvo Penta Stage V. It may seem out of place, or out of time, to talk about Stage V just now that the EU moratorium has become official. Yet at Volvo Penta, where the wait for the Big Bang of electrification, scheduled for 2021, hasn’t waned, attention to reducing exhaust emissions is also, a...
Landini and Kohler: they speak the same language
Landini and Kohler, both companies are from Italy, and they share the same cultural framework. Based in Reggio Emilia province, in the Italian motor valley, they are just half a car from each other. Under the spotlights, and under the blue bonnets, the Kohler KDI TCD2504, the first to inaugurate Koh...
Dellorto. What’s new?
Dellorto doesn’t just mean carburetors for motorcycles and throttle bodies, variable intake systems, compressor by-pass valves and so on. Dellorto is actively involved in the electrification strategy. Dellorto and the thermal management: EXV What is EXV? Dellorto official said: A key component...
Siemens thinks green. Into the water it means ‘hybrid’
Siemens has for years been committed to preaching the reasons for hybrid technology even among marine applications. From commercial has also established itself in pleasure. Following part of the interview published on Diesel International, which you can find in this PDF. Hybrid propulsion projects i...
MAN Energy Solutions between power plant, research and corporate news
MAN Energy Solutions has completed the expansion of the ‘Sund’ power plant near Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands, and successfully handed the plant over to local energy supplier. Now, four MAN 9L51/60 engines have been successfully integrated into the islands’ hybrid energy-system an...
Wärtsilä and Vantaa Energy to produce carbon neutral synthetic biogas in Finland
Wärtsilä (here, a post of ours about the cooperation with Liebherr) and Vantaa Energy, a Finnish energy company, have signed in May an agreement on a joint concept feasibility study for a power-to-gas facility at Vantaa Energy’s waste-to-energy -plant in the city of Vantaa in the capital region. The...
Injection for alternative fuels: that’s how Liebherr works for the future
Liebherr is developing ‘climate-friendly’ injection solutions for alternative fuels: namely, hydrogen and synthetic fuels. As the internal combustion engine is still the dominant form of propulsion for mobility today, Liebherr’s Components Division sees it as a logical step to also advance the...
ETW and CHP: a German case study
ETW and CHP, two acronyms in the name of energy efficiency. The German company has been developing and producing energy plants since 1997, in the output range of 400 to 4,600 kWel. We forward an interesting case study. ETW and CHP: to expand a biogas plant into storage power plant In Wehrbleck in Lo...
Volvo Penta launches an electric driveline for fire trucks
Volvo Penta (here, our post about the newly appointed president) has developed an electric driveline addressed to innovative fire trucks. An interesting application deals with the collaboration with Rosenbauer, a leading fire service vehicle manufacturer. The driveline enables quite an innovative so...
Stage V Regulation, extension of transition is now official
Extension of transition deadlines Stage V Regulation has become EU law a few days ago. In this post, published a few weeks ago, we had reported the request coming from several associations. 2016/1628 on Stage V emissions from non-road mobile machinery (NRMM) was published last 17th July on the Offic...
