Sustainability

Mahindra electric. as you know The Indian giant also wants to accelerate on the electrification side, especially for road applications. An ambitious operation to decongest the crowded metropolises of the Subcontinent, crushed by the traffic of low emission vehicles (talking about truck electrificati...

Hitachi Zaxis and Isuzu, it is a synergy blessed by the rising sun that has generated the Stage V medium excavators, marketed as Zaxis-7. Hitachi Zaxis and Isuzu. A reliable partnership The Zaxis-7 medium excavators are exceptionally versatile for a wide range of applications. They are equipped with...

The Finnish company Aumet has been working on 2-4 stroke diesel Z-engine technology with the aim of reducing NOx and CO2 emissions. Let’s have a look at how they explain such a development. «Hybridization helps ICE car to recuperate the braking energy, even very small batteries, 1-2 kilowatts are bi...

The target of developing low-emissions engines for aviation is quite important for Rolls-Royce. As a matter of fact, reducing emissions from gas turbines is part of the wider Rolls-Royce sustainability strategy. The global manufacturer has indeed announced the beginning of the latest phase of testin...

The new NSK ball bearings have been specifically developed in order to enable electric and hybrid vehicle engines to reach very high speeds. Let’s go deeper into purely technical aspects by saying that, in addition to increasing the engine speed, the bearings reduce energy consumption per distance t...

Texaco Delo 600 ADF 15W-40 ISOCLEAN Certified Lubricant with OMNIMAX is an API CK-4 performance heavy-duty engine oil. Just to clarify, OMNI in latin means ‘for all’ and MAX is the short name of Maximum. Now you can understand what Texaco thinks about its latest release, specifically for...

AGM (Absorbent Glass Material) auxiliary batteries for start&stop systems have been part of the Italian company’s product range for quite a long time. In particular, since 2010, Fiamm has produced eight million units at the Chinese facility in Wuhan as well as in Italy, in the city of Avezzano. ...

Diesel algae and LumoFuel. We mentioned this smart approach to biodiesel almost ten years ago (biofuels? Read more…). Now it’s time to talk about LumoFuel. What is this? It is a washing machine sized household ‘bioreactor’ which uses algae to turn CO2 and sunlight into a usable diesel th...

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, 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...