Next-gen gas trucks to tackle climate change?
Despite the setbacks with gas trucks – and particularly dual-fuel methane-diesel – revealed in last month’s report on the Low Carbon Truck Trial (page 34), this game must surely be far from over. Not only are next-generation OEM advances countering irksome efficiency losses and power limitations, but also aftermarket converters are hinting at solutions to crippling methane slip.
Swept volume
As local authorities and their contractors come to terms with shrinking budgets, what can transport engineers do to help cut costs. Brian Tinham investigates
Money-saving engines
LPG may seem like old hat, but dual-fuel offerings are being given the high-tech treatment, and pioneering operators like what they're seeing. Brian Tinham reports
Moving mainstream
With DieselGas geared up for 600 Euro 6 dual-fuel 6x2 tractor conversions per year and Fraikin now offering full service lease terms, is this technology going mainstream? Brian Tinham examines latest data from the Low Carbon Truck trial - and its implications
How about a sustainable route for road transport?
As we go to press, the transport industry's verdict on last month's budget is best expressed as 'could have done so much better'. Yes, it may well have been a budget for the 'doers, makers and savers', as the chancellor put it, but there wasn't much for hard-pressed transport operators wrestling with a fragile economic recovery.
How will transport react to times of cheap diesel?
As Brent crude dips below $50 per barrel and the price of diesel at the pumps plummets in response, transport operators large and small are rubbing their hands in glee. There are few developments likely to spread a smile on a director’s face as effectively as the unexpected collapse of one of his or her biggest cost lines.
Hybrid highways
Hybrids are being suggested as the best way to preserve oil reserves, with application-specific solutions being unveiled at an increasing rate. John Challen looks at the wide range of promising engineering opportunities
So you want to cut costs, carbon and EC fines?
Time is running out. Not only is the EC currently taking legal action against the UK for its "failure to cut excessive levels of nitrogen dioxide" from diesel engines by the 2010 deadline, but in just six years we're in danger of missing another Brussels deadline – that imposed by RED (the Renewable Energy Directive).
Efficient, flexible, future-proof
With the massive Hannover commercial vehicle event only days away, Brian Tinham previews just some of the attractions of transport engineers and fleet managers
Concept to reality
In this second of our two-part IAA commercial vehicle event review, Brian Tinham, Peter Shakespeare and Steve Banner examine the showstoppers