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    Designed by supercomputer, SmartTruck UnderTray system makes semis energy-efficient

    Posted on February 11, 2011 by gavril

    Supercomputers are built to be smart, and today, these man-made machines perform complex medical procedures, send stuff up into space and do a lot more. Well, they design green trucks too! The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) … Continue reading3 →

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    Volvo’s claims to build the World’s Fastest Hybrid Truck

    Posted on November 4, 2010 by gavril

    Volvo is keen on having the fastest Hybrid truck around. So keen that the Volvo Trucks division is now busy building the Mean Green diesel-electric hybrid truck that might just claim the World’s Fastest Hybrid Truck in spring 2011. Trucking … Continue reading3 →

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    i-Cool, a solar powered air-conditioning system for trucks

    Posted on November 1, 2010 by gavril

    Truckers usually spend long hours on the road in their rigs. Driving down those never ending dusty highways with the sun blazing on your back isn’t all that a pleasant experience. To keep their drive cool, most trucks are equipped … Continue reading3 →

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    “Convoy” and government emission regulations could help tractor-trailers go green

    Posted on October 26, 2010 by gavril

    No-one really bothers about fuel efficiency when it comes to those huge trailer trucks we see hauling all that cargo down U.S. highways. These trucks drink as much as they can and happily spew a load of carbon into the … Continue reading3 →

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    UK’s waste managing firm introduces plastic trucks to clear waste and tones of carbon too

    Posted on August 27, 2010 by deepa

    Plastic vehicles will soon replace heavy metal based trucks to clear waste in UK. In a bid to reduce their own carbon footprint a Kent based waste firm, Verdant, plans to introduce eight plastic trucks which in turn will drive … Continue reading3 →

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    32-foot transformer robot recycled out of an old junkyard truck

    Posted on June 9, 2010 by gavril

    Remember Optimus Prime and Bumblebee? Well, Optimus Prime did transform into a full fledged warrior robot from a truck, and so did this piece of art we stumbled upon in China. Now maybe this Transformer robot can’t transform back into … Continue reading3 →

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    The eco-friendly Womble Truck is recycled out of 21 different cars

    Posted on May 4, 2010 by gavril

    More of a jigsaw puzzle than a vehicle, this truck, known as the Womble Truck, was put together with parts from recycled cars. 21 different cars to be precise. This could probably be Britain’s greenest car, and ugliest too. Well, … Continue reading3 →

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    US postal trucks could store renewable grid energy in future

    Posted on April 13, 2010 by gavril

    Someone at the PJM Interconnection had a brainwave and came up with the idea of having postal trucks, school buses and garbage trucks connected to the grid in America. How will this help? Well, electric vehicles like these could help … Continue reading3 →

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    Vision Industries` Zero Emission Tyrano Semi Truck produces zero greenhouse gases

    Posted on October 27, 2009 by Shruti Shree

    Vision Industries Corporation has recently come up with the zero emission, plug-in electric/hydrogen fuel cell hybrid, Tyrano Semi truck. The Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger introduced the Tyrano to the people of California in Sacramento, on the 20th of this month. This … Continue reading3 →

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    Mitsubishi keeps the truck cool with solar energy

    Posted on October 27, 2009 by deepa

    Mitsubishi Chemical has developed a technology to use solar cells for air conditioning in trucks to help reduce fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. Mitsubishi Chemical released a 10-ton prototype truck with two types of solar cells to achieve a … Continue reading3 →

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