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HTUF 2011 in Baltimoreis the 11th in the success-ful Calstart series, andHTUF now stands forHybrid, Electric, andHigh Efficiency TruckUsers Forum, as operatorsdemand a wider range ofoptions.

Navistar Internationalbucket trucks with hybridelectric drives by Eaton –known as HTUF trucks –

paved the way for hybriduse by utilities. Calstarthelped make it happen.The organization hashosted cutting-edge bat-tery electrics too, likeAzure’s Transit ConnectElectric and Navistar’seStar. Freightliner Cus-tom Chassis unveiled itsnew-body electric walk-invan at HTUF 2010.

This year Calstart and

its HTUF participants aregoing further, and there’seven a gaseous fuels spe-cialist here: Impco Auto-

motive is talking up CNGand propane at Booth 316.

Much more inside!

HTUF 2011 host Calstart has received a $300,000 grantfrom the International Trade Administration (an armof the U.S. Department of Commerce) to help Ameri-can clean truck and bus providers connect with Chinesepartners – “and promote the export of American mediumand heavy-duty clean vehicle technology to China.”

“U.S. firms we work with are among the world lead-ers in hybrid, electric and advanced clean truck andbus technology and China is becoming the world’s lead-ing commercial vehicle market,” says Calstart presidentand CEO John Boesel. “Our U.S.-China Clean TruckTechnology Forum will link these players to form part-nerships, speed clean tech market introductions and cre-ate export and job growth opportunities for U.S. firms.”

Calstart (Booth 412) is kicking off the new Calstart-ITA U.S.-China Clean Truck Tech Forum here firstthing Tuesday morning – at 8am in Room 307.

What’s In a Name?Hybrids and More

U.S.-China Clean Truck Kicks Off in Baltimore

Hino Brings Its Hybrids Two breakthrough trucks were unveiledat NTEA’s Work Truck Show. They’re hereat HTUF, and Hino is talking pricing –which means it’s taking orders. —Page 5

Siemens Elfa for TrucksSiemens, which does all its own manufac-turing, is quietly establishing its Elfa serieshybrid electric drive for trucks. —Page 8

UQM for EVI for UPSOne hundred of FCCC’s new composite-body walk-in vans for California. —0

Azure Is On a Ford RollWith Transit Connect Electric and F450-based Balance parallel hybrid commercial,Azure Dynamics is tackling more Ford-based electric drive vehicles. —Page 22

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Fleets & Fuels ShowTimes is proud to present the HTUF 2011 conference program as partof a single compact book. Among the highlights of the 2011 conference is a first-everpanel on investment, as Calstart brings the money men to its clean vehicles show – bothclean tech specialists and bankers. “We can’t rely on government to make this happen,”says John Boesel, Calstar t president and CEO. He will moderate the Wednesday morning session. HTUF 2011 Program Starts on Page 13

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TTSI-Vision fuel cell plug-in was viewed by Pacific Rim energy and transport leaders last month. —Page 8

Crane Carrier is the first in the U.S. to test a new parallel hybrid electric drivetrain from BAE Systems. Crane has alsonotched the first commercial sale of a CNG-fueled hybridrefuse truck, with Eaton HLA hydraulic drive. —Page 6

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HTUF 2011Ride-and-Drive and Convoy

Thursday, October 13More than 30 high efficiency trucks will make for an impressive display oftechnical competence at the 11th Annual HTUF Ride-and-Drive and Convoy.

Attendees can experience direct, hands-on interaction with viable trucktechnology solutions for greater fuel efficiency and lower emissions, saysCalstart (Booth 412).

The HTUF 2011 ride-and-drive is being held Thursday morning at the Westport Parking Lot, at 2001-2101 Kloman Street in Baltimore, about amile and a half south of the Convention Center.

Shuttles will begin loading in front of the Baltimore Marriott Inner Harbor(Eutaw Street entrance), beginning at 7:30am, and will make return tripsevery half hour. Some of the vehicles to expect...

Drive&Ride

HTUF 2011 platinum sponsor BAE Systems (Booth 313) is testing the parallel version of its HybriDrive brand hybrid electric powertrain on at least threetrucks: a Kenworth dump truck, a Freightliner M2, and a Crane Carrier garbage truck.

Freightliner (Booth 300/301)Business Class M2 106with parallel hybrid electricdrive by Eaton (Booth 404)

Terex (Booth 500) is promoting HyPowerbattery-driven aerial lifts with ParkerHannifin motors (Booth 718) and hydraulics (Booth 819).

Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp (Booth 300/301) unveiled morong Olson-bodied battery electric walk-in van atHTUF 2010 in Dearborn, Mich.

GM Chevy volt range-extended EV from HTUF 2011 bronze sponsor BGE –Baltimore Gas & Electric

Hino Trucks (Booth 712)has introduced twodiesel-fueled hybrids,the 155h and 195h

Total TransportationServices, Inc. is thelead customer for theTyrano hydrogen fuelcell Class 8 plug-inport truck by Vision Indus-tries. TTSI is at Booth 804.Siemens drivetrain (Booth 302).Odyne (Booth 512) is promoting a range

of plug-in hybrid electric trucks withRemy (Booth 506) motors and lithiumbatteries by Johnson Controls, Inc.

Impco Automotive (Booth 316) is promoting propane and natural gas-fueled GM trucks and vans like this GM Chevrolet Silverado pickup.

Azure Dynamics (Booth 106) offers the Ford E-450 chassis Balance brandparallel hybrid (as a truck or bus) and the pure battery, Siemens-motorTransit Connect Electric. Lithium ion batteries by Johnson Controls, inc.

Kenworth (Booth 604) T370 tractorwith parallel hybrid electric drive byEaton (Booth 404)

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Martin O’MalleyState of Maryland

Maryland Gov. Mar tinO’Malley is to give akeynote address atHTUF 2011 on Tuesdayafternoon at 2:30.

Margo OgeU.S. EPA/OTAQ

Margo Oge, director of theOffice of Transportation andAir Quality with the U.S. EPA,will speak at the HTUF 2011general session on Tuesdayat 3:30pm.

(photo from HTUF 2010 inDearborn, Mich, which Oge addressed via video)

Hungry? Surely you will be. Several companieshave been good enough to sponsor a nosh hereat HTUF 2011 in Baltimore.

Southern Company, an HTUF 2011 gold sponsor (and the host of HTUF 2009 in Atlanta)

is sponsoring the Monday evening reception forregistered fleet professionals only.

Hino Trucks (Booth 712), an HTUF 2011 goldsponsor, is sponsoring the Welcome receptionin the exhibit hall on Tuesday evening.

BAE Systems (Booth 313), an HTUF 2011 plat-inum sponsor, is sponsoring the Wednesday lunch-eon which includes Calstart’s Blue Sky Awardspresentations.

In conjunction with HTUF 2011, the Nor th American Council for Freight Efficiency is holding

its 4th Driving Innovation meeting in Room 302of the Baltimore Convention Center on Thursdayafternoon.

Speakers include Mike O’Connell of Frito-Lay,Patrick Quinn of The Accord Group, Chris Heiss of HTUF 2011 gold Sponsor Eaton (Booth 404), and Mike Roeth, executive director of NACFEand principal of Roeth, LLC. Calstart itself is hosting Wednesday evening’s Gala Reception at the Maryland Science Museum. Calstart is at Booth 412.

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Welcome to Baltimore and the 11th annualHybrid, Electric, and High Efficiency TruckUsers Forum (HTUF 2011). This conferencehas assembled a Who’s Who of manufacturers, suppliers, end users and government officials topresent everything from up-to-the-minute information on this market segment to theworld’s largest convoy of medium- and heavy-duty high efficiency vehicles.

Several factors presage a sustained market de-mand. The first is the ever-increasing capabilityof hybrid and electric vehicle technology. CAL-START, in fact, will report findings under ournewly created E-Truck Task Force to target thespecific issues of this segment. We are doing this,under HTUF, because of the recent promising

emergence of this industry sector. And second isa topic that you’ll hear more about over thesenext few days – the recent Obama administra-tion announcement of new greenhouse gas andfuel efficiency standards for medium- and heavy-duty trucks. As the nation is faced with air qual-ity and energy security challenges, both of whichcan be positively impacted by hybrid, electric,and high efficiency trucks, there’s much workahead to make sure we get it right. CALSTARTand the U.S. Army TARDEC National Auto-motive Center remain committed to the origi-nal vision of facilitating these technologyadvances and eventual purchases in the mostpromising truck market segments.

On behalf of the organizing team of TARDEC’s

Paul Skalny and BradMcNett and CAL-START’s HTUFteam, led by Bill VanAmburg and RichardParish, we are pleasedto welcome your par-ticipation as we drivethe clean, advancedtechnology vehicles available today, and work together to continue to expand this burgeoningmarket.

John BoeselPresident and CEOCALSTART

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David StricklandNHTSA

David Strickland, admin-istrator of the NationalHighway Traffic SafetyAdministration, ulti-mately responsible forthe Obama administra-tions new fuel efficiencystandards for trucks, willspeak on Tuesday after-noon at 1:10.

Sharon BurkeThe Pentagon

Sharon Burke, the AssistantSecretar y of Defense for Operational Energy Plans andPrograms, is the keynotespeaker at 8am on Wednesday. Burke will highlight the eco-nomic and national securitybenefits of clean fleets forcommercial and military use.

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Toyota’s Hino Trucks (Booth 712) is talking pric-ing for its new 155h and 195h COE (for cab overengine) hybrids here this week, paving the wayfor sale of the long-awaited vehicles. Dealer deliveries are to commence by year-end.

Both new hybrid trucks are at HTUF – a 155hwith box body and a 195h cab-and-chassis.

Operators may expect fuel efficiency about30% better than comparable diesels, says mar-keting and dealer operations VP Glenn Ellis.

Following trials of the Hino hybrid drive with customers including the New York City Department of Sanitation, Hino Motors presi-dent Yoshiro Shirai unveiled the firm’s new line

of Class 4/5 cabovers, including the155h and195h diesel-electric hybrids, at the Work TruckShow in Indianapolis this past March.

“We have a burning desire to make the worlda better place,” Shirai said in Indianapolis, cit-ing a Hino hybrid history dating to diesel/electricbuses that entered service in 1991 – the first ofsome 10,000 hybrid deliveries to date.

“We want to make hybrids the rule for urbanareas – not the exception,” he said.

All of the new COEs are powered by Hino’s5-liter J05E series engine. The hybrids employAisin's A465, 6-speed automatic transmission, afirst in the hybrid sector.

The 14,500-lb GVW155h and 19,500-lb 195h aresaid to represent firsts in theU.S. Class 4 cabover space.

They are “sixth-genera-tion hybrids,” featuringnickel metal hydride bat-tery packs by Toyota’sPrimearth EV Energy (for-merly Panasonic EV).

Hino Trucks this pastsummer gave its blessing forASTM-compliant B20 bio-

diesel to be used for its complete line of Class 4and 5 cab-over, and Class 6 and 7 conventionaltrucks. “It is our strong commitment to designand assemble trucks that are at the forefront ofenvironmental friendliness and that help to reduce our overall dependency on foreign oils,”Ellis said of the B20 approval.

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Hino Motors president Yoshiro Shirai unveiled his firm’s new cab over-engine hybrid trucks, the 155h and 195h, at NTEA’s Work Truck Show.

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Hino showed a cutaway of its new trucks’Diesel-Electric Hybrid System Power ControlUnit at the National Truck Equipment Asso-ciation’s Work Truck Show in Indianapolis.

Features include “the world’s first HybridAdaptive Control System that continuouslycommunicates with the Engine Control Unit(ECU) to evaluate driving and road conditionsto optimize the truck’s fuel economy and per-formance,” Hino says. Like parent Toyota withits popular Prius, Hino is using nickel metalhydride batteries from Primearth EV Energy.

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HTUF 2011 platinum sponsor BAE Systems(Booth 313) is talking up average fuel economygains of 30% for the new parallel version of itsHybriDrive hybrid electric propulsion system.

A LET2 refuse truck by Crane Carrier is thefirst application – and may do even better.

Crane wants to bring the more fuel-efficientpowertrain to the U.S. market in late 2012. AfterHTUF, Crane will take the HybriDrive paral-lel truck on a nationwide tour, with select fleetsgetting a chance to test it in garbage collectionservice, says Crane VP Glenn Pochocki.

BAE said last year that it would devise a paral-lel version for trucks of its successful series hybrid

electric drive for buses (now 3,500-plus in serviceworldwide).

In March, at the NTEA Work Truck Show, BAEsaid it would employ an Caterpillar transmission.

Here at HTUF, BAE is disclosing for the firsttime the average fuel economy gain of 30%.

The BAE drive is to be available in Crane’sCOE (cab over engine) models as well as theLET2 vehicles. Pochocki notes that the paral-lel architecture with conventional Caterpillartransmission also allows its use in Crane LDT2drop-chassis vehicles.

(Crane is also evaluating Eaton’s HLA [for Hydraulic Launch Assist] in similar LET2 vehicles. Eaton is at Booth 404.)

Fuel savings for the stop-and-go garbagecollection duty cycle are expected to amount toas much as 35%, says BAE program director MikeMekhiche. “Refuse is right at the heart of theduty cycle that the equipment is designed to per-form for,” he told Fleets & Fuels. Payback? “We’relooking at three to five years, max,” for the RCV– refuse collection vehicle – market, he says.

The Caterpillar CX series transmission is keyto the economics of the drive, Mekhiche says. It’sa straight off-the-shelf product, he notes, withBAE software “to shift it and control it.”

The average fuel economy improvement of30% on trucks powered by the parallel systemwas experienced across a range of standard driv-ing cycles, BAE says in a release prepared forHTUF. “The system performed best on stop-and-go cycles where average velocity is betweenfive and 20 miles per hour making it an optimalchoice for refuse collection and delivery trucks.”

Among the standard industry cycles used tocarry out the track fuel economy testing, BAEsays, were Hybrid Truck Users Forum, Federal

Test Procedure 72 (Federal Urban Drive Sched-ule), and the Heavy Duty-Urban DynamometerDriving Schedule. Urban cycles such as Man-hattan and Orange County Transit Authorityalso were evaluated.

“With power and torque ratings three timesthose of available products in the marketplacetoday, the superior fuel economy of the Hybri-Drive parallel propulsion system positions it tolead the marketplace,” Mekhiche said.

BAE’s drives employ lithium ion batteries.A123 (Booth 420) now supplies the batteries forthe series HybriDrive powertrain for buses.

BAE has not identified its lithium ion supplierfor the parallel drives for trucks.

The parallel HybriDrive powertrain for RCVsis being evaluated in the UK by Dennis Eagle,also with an eye to sales late in 2012.


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BAE Parallel Entering Trials with Crane Carrier

BAE Systems (Booth 313) has gone with an off-the-shelf CX Series transmission by Caterpillar for itsHybriDrive for trucks, the parallel version of its suc-cessful hybrid electric driveline for transit buses.The conventional transmission allows the BAE driveto be used in more truck models.

Crane LET2s are also being used to test Eaton’sHLA hydraulic hybrid drive (chassis was unveiledat the HTUF 2010 ride-and-drive in Dearborn).

Autocar Offers a CNG Hydraulic Too

Indiana-based Autocar announced a CNG-fueled version of its E3 hydraulic hybrid, withRunWise series hydraulic drive by Parker Hannifin (Booth 819 here), at the WasteCon2010 meeting in Boston.

Meanwhile 11 diesel-fueled RunWise Autocar E3 trucks were placed with threesouth Florida fleets last year, and accordingto Parker, fuel savings have exceeded 40%.

The City of Miami took delivery of three additional E3 vehicles in June, and Austin,Texas has four of them on order.

Eaton’s HLA Drive for First CNG Hybrid SaleHTUF 2011 gold sponsor Eaton (Booth 404) isproviding the drive as Crane Carrier has wonthe race for the first commercial sale of a com-pressed natural gas-fueled heavy duty hybridvehicle – Washington State’s CleanScapes hasordered two for a waste collection contract inDes Moines, just south of Seattle, for deliveryearly in 2012. The trucks will be Crane LET2vehicles with Eaton’s HLA (for Hydraulic LaunchAssist) parallel hybrid drivetrains.

Cheaper-than-diesel CNG fuel means it willtake longer for CleanScapes to amortize theHLA hybrid trucks’ higher price, says Crane VPGlenn Pochocki. But the client insisted that

the trucks be as clean as possible, he says. Hybrids aside, “In the last two procurements

we’ve been in, we’ve bid entirely CNG,” saysCleanScapes spokesman John Taylor.

“Universally, our experience with CNG hasjust been great,” he told Fleets & Fuels.

CleanScapes has approximately 100 col-lection trucks and about half are natural gas-fueled. Maintenance costs are lower thandiesels, he says, and the hydraulic hybrids,with a drivetrain that gathers braking energy(and reduces brake wear), will further reduceoperating and parts replacement costs. Clean-Scapes operates Crane and Autocar vehicles.

BAE reports an average fuel economy improve-ment of 30% for its parallel HybriDrive.

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Saginaw, Mich.-based Wineman Technology is pro-moting a new software suite for advanced vehicledesign at Booth 200. The appropriately namedDynacar goes beyond mere dynamometer data toallow simulation of an entire vehicle all the waydown to its tires and tread.

Numerous component modeling software prod-ucts are available for engineers, but according toWineman sales and marketing VP Darryn La Zar,“No one has a full vehicle simulator.” Manufac-turers have been developing critical motors andcontrollers “in a silo,” La Zar told Fleets & Fuels.

“Automotive engineers can move away from thetraditional, compartmentalized, and inefficienttesting of individual vehicle components to an in-tegrated, customizable, and complete vehicle testenvironment approach that can be used throughthe entire vehicle development process,” Wine-man Technology says.

“Auto manufacturers must have a seamlessdevelopment process,” Wineman Technology CEO Jim Wineman said in August, when Dynacare was released.

The multi-domain and open-architecture Dynacar was developed by Spain’s Tecnalia andis being brought to market by Wineman. Func-

tionally, the U.S. firm explains, it is a plug-in forWineman’s Inertia brand test automation soft-ware and VeriStand real-time test and simulationsoftware by National Instruments.

“By using the Dynacar, combined with Inertiaand NI VeriStand, test engineers have one frame-work for the whole process, allowing them to efficiently and rapidly prototype, implement, andreal-time test vehicle components,” Winemansaid. Engineers, says the company, “are now ableto see how their particular components work aspart of the whole system, ultimately improvingproduct reliability, reducing development costs,and speeding time to market.”

Wineman for Dynacar Modeling

With Dynacar, designers can see how changes inone component will affect other parts of the car.They can even drive the virtual vehicle.

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Impco Certifies Ford Bi-Fuel UpfitsImpco Automotive (Booth 314), best known forits work on GM natural gas vehicles, reportsU.S. EPA cer tifications of its bi-fuel com-pressed natural gas-gasoline upfits of 2011model year F-250 and F-350 pickups withFord’s 6.2-liter gaseous prepped V-8 engine.

But CNG at HTUF, best known for hybrids?“It’s a good meeting,” says Jay Sandler,

a veteran of multiple HTUF conclaves withAzure Dynamics. He joined Impco earlier thisyear and in August was named director ofOEM and fleet sales. “There’s lots and lotsof fleets,” Sandler told Fleets & Fuels. “It isgood exposure so we decided to participate.”

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“Today we celebrate the birthplaceof the hydrogen economy and zero-emission transportation,” MartinSchuermann, CEO of Vision Industries said as the first of 100 oreven 400 Class 8 fuel cell tractorswas delivered in July to Rancho Do-minguez, Calif.-based Total Trans-portation Services, Inc. (Booth 804).

“This single truck was built for$270,000,” TTSI president Vic LaRosa told Fleets & Fuels.

A vehicle design using lots oflithium batteries and a smaller fuelcell makes it possible, they say. “It’s

a big difference in system architec-ture,” says Schuermann. “We get bywith a much smaller fuel cell,” hesays – 33 kilowatts as compared to

150 kilowatts in a fuel cell transit bus. According to La Rosa, the fuel

cell accounts for about $50,000 ofthe current $270,000 tab.

“We’re trying to get these vehi-cles down to $200,000,” Schuer-mann says.

The Tyrano is built on a Freight-liner (Booth 300) Cascadia chassiswith a 33-kilowatt Hydrogenics fuelcell, with Siemens (Booth 302) mo-tors and driveline electronics gov-erned by Vision software makingfor the equivalent of a 536-peak-horsepower (3,300 foot pounds

peak torque) engine.The truck’s hydrogen

fuel tanks are providedby Worthington Cylin-ders/SCI. Three 17.3-by 80-inch tanks arepressurized to an un-usual 6,250 psi. The ve-hicle has lithium ionbatteries with an inte-grated battery manage-ment system.

The Tyrano vehicle isto perform typical drayage opera-tions, hauling freight containersfrom terminals in the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

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TTSI president Vic La Rosa (in sunglasses) withVision president and CEO Martin Schuermannat the APEC USA 2011 expo in Oakland.

International Durastar truck with idle-slashing HyPower battery lift.

HTUF 2011 silver sponsor Siemens (Booth 302)emphasizes series hybrid electric drivetraincomponents, noting that only series technol-ogy, with 100% of motive power derived elec-trically, makes for a simple transition toall-electric or fuel cell zero-emission vehicles.

Siemens notes that it’s the only player inelectric drive vehicles that manufactures, ratherthan merely integrates, all of its driveline com-ponents. Siemens produces motors in Nor-wood, Ohio at one of the oldest manufacturingplants in continuous operation in the U.S. Thefacility covers 16 acres and 522,000 squarefeet, employing approximately 400 people.

Siemens supplies motors for mining andships, and railroads. It builds heavy traction

drives “and more than 100 differ-ent types of control panels used forthe automobile industry” at a 700-employee plant with 138,000square feet of manufacturing spacein Alpharetta, Ga. It is preparing toproduce Elfa brand vehicle drivesthere too. Elfa is currently used inmore than 1,300 vehicle projectsworldwide, including municipalbuses and trucks, Siemens says.

Elfa motors are used on 50 ar ticulated hybrid buses by Northern Ireland’s Wrightbusin Las Vegas, and powered three hybrid elec-tric Crane Carrier refuse trucks tested in NewYork City. Fuel cell buses by Belgium’s Van Hool

in service with AC Transit in California and Con-necticut Transit use Siemens Elfa motors too.

Siemens motors may be seen on the TTSI-Vision Industries’ Tyrano hydrogen fuel cell plug-in hybrid por t truck (Booth 804), and theFord-chassis battery Transit Connect Electricby Azure Dynamics (Booth 106).

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HyPower Hits theHeights, Idling-Free

Terex is showing two HyPowerbrand battery-powered aerial liftunits at Booth 500: a TL60 and an NT29.

Terex describes HyPower as aplug-in hybrid. Batteries drive anelectric motor powering the hy-draulic pumps for aerial lifts or digger derrick use.

The installation, which is avail-able for retrofit, allows the hydraulicpump to be powered from either thetruck engine or from an electricmotor/generator.

“The truck engine and transmis-sion system operate normally and

are not affected by our hybrid sys-tem,” HyPower is thus not a hybriddrivetrain for moving the vehicle,but allows work to be done onsitewith the engine off. Grid powerfrom the batteries can power toolsand heating or air conditioning too.

The HyPower pump is suppliedby Parker (Booth 819). The electricmotor that drives the pump is sup-plied by Parker too (Booth 718).

Terex has historically used leadacid batteries to power the electricmotor that drives the Parker pump,but is moving to more premiumbatteries as a HyPower option.

Siemens Elfa hardware is used in the Rotopress Dualpowerhybrid electric refuse truck offered by Germany’s Faun.

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Quantum is promoting its plug-in hybridelectric Ford F-150 – for which it reportshundreds of orders – at Booth 220.

“The first two customers have pur-chased more than $14 million worth of

vehicles,” Quantum president and CEOAlan Niedzwiecki said in July as FloridaPower & Light placed an order.

The earlier buyer was Dow Chemical,parent of lithium ion battery supplierDow Kokam (Booth 312).

Dow Chemical is to take 100 of theF-150 PHEVs by the end of 2012.

FP&L could with options take morethan 200, Niedzwiecki said, followingan initial purchase order for ten.

The Quantum PHEV has a 20-kilowatt-hour custom Dow Kokam NMC (fornickel manganese cobalt) battery packfor an optimal combination of power andenergy. “The F-150 PHEV has a 35 mileelectric-only range, shifting to hybridelectric mode thereafter for a total rangeof over 400 miles,” Quantum says.

Quantum, which also supplies com-pressed natural gas fuel cylinders andentire gaseous fuel systems, is work-ing to determine the optimal platformfor a CNG-fueled hybrid vehicle too.

UQM Technologies (Booth 314) is furnishing the key drivetrain hardware as California and federal agencies are providing funding for Stockton, Calif.-basedElectric Vehicles International to supply UPS with 100 all-electric deliverytrucks, marking the “largest single deployment of zero tailpipe emission deliv-ery vehicles in the state.” Beginning in January, the trucks will be deployed inthe Los Angeles and Sacramento areas, and in the San Joaquin Valley.

The Freightliner Custom ChassisCorp WIVs – walk-in vans – will featurethe new composite body by MorganOlson unveiled at the HTUF 2010meeting in Michigan last year. EVI isfitting the FCCC trucks with UQM’sPowerPhase HD200 drivetrains and

lithium iron magnesium phosphate batteries by EVI affiliate Valence.The battery WIVs will have a single-charge range of 90 miles and will

displace an estimated 126,000 gallons of diesel per year, UPS says. “It is time to explore electric drive systems within the short-range segment

of our delivery fleet,” said UPS vehicle engineering director Mike Britt. TheEVI buy “is an important first step,” he said (UPS also notes that it operatedEVs in New York during the 1930s). The program has some $7 million in sup-port from California and the U.S. EPA, says EVI president Ricky Hanna.

UPS now has 28 all-electric vehicles in its fleet, in New York City and in Europe, among more than 2,200 alt fuel vehicles.

More eStar Trucks for FedEx & CokeWatch for FedEx to add 30 battery electric Navistar eStartrucks to the 32 it already operates. And Coca-Cola has announced that it will deploy six eStars, in five U.S. cities. Navistar (Booth 120) confirms that eStar production is beingshifted to Wakarusa, Ind. Modec, the original designer ofthe vehicle in Great Britain, has closed, and production tool-ing has been shipped from the UK foruse in Indiana, says an industrysource. Navistar employed drivetrainsfrom Britain’s Zytek and lithium ionbatteries from A123 (Booth 420) forthe first group of U.S.-built, Modec-based vehicles, whichit re-named eStar last year. The company says it is seekingnew components in an effort to strike a better balance be-tween cost and performance. Navistar also confirms that teneStar vehicles for New York City are being leased for just $1per year apiece in hopes they lead to further sales. “We keepbuilding our customer list,” a spokeswoman says. The zero-emission vehicle is currently priced at about $140,000.

Capstone Claims a Key CARB QualHTUF 2011 silver sponsor Capstone Turbine (Booth 808) reports that its natural gas-fueled C30 and C65 microtur-

bines meet California Air ResourcesBoard requirements for hybrid trucksand buses – without aftertreatment.“No aftertreatment equipment allows

Capstone to achieve these emission levels without impact toproduct efficiency, additional cost or increased vehicleweight,” the company said. “Our engineering team contin-ues to improve the microturbine combustion and controlstechnology to identify simple solutions that address techni-cally challenging environmental requirements,” Capstoneexecutive VP and CTO Mark Gilbreth said. Capstone is usingits next generation lean premix combustion technology.

Sevcon Would Eliminate Rare Earths Multinational Sevcon (Booth 400) said last month that it’s lead-ing a collaborative project to develop next generation drive-trains for hybrid and pure electric vehicles – a consortiumincludes UK-based Cummins Generator Technologies andNewcastle University. The automotive industry’s ability tomeet demand for hybrids and EVs “is being challenged byconstraints on the availability of the rare-earth magnets usedin the motors that drive thesevehicles,” said Sevcon presi-dent and CEO Matt Boyle.The Sevcon-led team is targeting “a new electric motor tech-nology that uses cutting-edge power electronics to eliminatethe need for magnets incorporating rare earth metals.” Sep-arately, UQM (Booth 314) is investing $1 million as part of a$4 million U.S. DoE effort to develop non-rare earth motors.UQM is collaborating with NREL, Argonne and Oak Ridge.

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Remy and JCI for Odyne PHEVsHTUF 2011 bronze sponsor Odyne (Booth 512) reported a master supply agree-ment with Johnson Controls for lithium ion batteries, and said JCI “has madea strategic investment in Odyne to fund expansion and to accelerate wide-scale

commercialization of Odyne’s hybrid systems formedium and heavy duty work trucks.” Odynelater reported funding of $2.9 million for sevenutility trucks in California, and said it plans towork closely with Terex (Booth 500), one of itslargest distributors, and supply partner RemyMotors (Booth 506).

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Freightliner (Booth 300/301) is commencing deliveries of Business Class M2 106 hybrid truckswith a new start-stop and hill-hold feature.

“We’ve had these in test units, but now we arein full production,” says Greg Treinen, segmentmanager for alternative fuels product marketing.

“We’re bringing new features to market to helpmake the business case,” says hybrid vocationalsales chief Dave Bryant.

“We know we’ve got to do things to improvethe value proposition without incentives.”

An M2 106 for Maryland-based Dunbar Armored – the firm’s first hybrid in a fleetof more than 1,400 vehicles – is the firstFreightliner hybrid with start-stop.

Armored trucks generally idle when load-ing and unloading, to allow emergency departures in case of trouble.

With start-stop, they don’t have to keeptheir engines running. The batteries pro-vide heating and air conditioning too.

“Not only do we want to offset future fuelcosts, but we’re finding that our customersare also looking to us to be environmentallyconscious,” said Dunbar fleet maintenance

VP Douglas White. Dunbar, says Freightliner, is the largest pri-

vately-owned armored car service provider in theU.S. Its new hybrid is to be based in California.

Freightliner hybrids have parallel electric drivetrains by Eaton (Booth 404).

“Together with Eaton, we continue to enhanceour hybrid solution to help companies like Dunbar maximize fuel efficiency and benefit theenvironment,” says Bryant.

Freightliner celebrated production of its1,000th hybrid truck at the beginning of 2011.Deliveries now exceed 1,400 units, Bryant says.

Freightliner is an HTUF 2011 gold sponsor. A Business Class M2 106 hybrid tractor is in

the Thursday ride-and-drive.

Parker Hannifin is promoting a new line of motors and associated controllersunder the MPT badge, with applications ranging from the small units usedin power steering pumps and brake compressors, all the way up to tractionmotors for fully electric Class 8 trucks.

And while the new Parker motors are permanent magnet motors neces-sitating the use of costly – and China-dependent – rare earth elements, engineers have striven to minimize them.

“We’ve taken out as much neodymium as possible,” says Jay Schultz,Rohnert Park, Calif.-based product manager for electromechanical automation.

“We’ve done our best to minimize the amount of rare-earth material usagewithout sacrificing important performance metrics,” he says.

Parker’s rare-earth minimization is especially true of the smallest of thenew MPT motor line, a 142-millimeter-diameter product, Schultz told Fleets & Fuels. That’s because cost is especially important as Parker worksto sell the motors to developers of such electric parts as power steering pumps,brake compressors, and air conditioning compressors. Those parts are alsoless performance-critical than a vehicle’s tractor motor, he says.

The new motor line is graduated, with each of four products approxi-mately 1.5 times larger than the one below it. Parker’s new 210mm unit isaimed at power sports applications, like motorcycles, and can also serve as

the traction motor for a neighborhood electric vehicle. The 210s work for pumps for hydraulic actuation in offroad machinery too, and for themotors that drive the hydraulic pumps in battery-operated aerial lifts. Terex HyPower lifts (page 8) employ a first-generation Parker motor, Schultz says.

The third new Parker motor is 310mm in diameter, and could be the trac-tion motor in small trucks, up to Class 3 or Class 4, depending on design.

The fourth new motor is 470mm in diameter, large enough for pure battery or series hybrid electric Class 8 trucks.

With 350 kilowatts – 470 horsepower – of continuous power, “You canfully replace your diesel and do everything and more a diesel can do,”Schultz says – “and get rid of the transmission.”

Parker Hannifin electric is at Booth 718, back-to-back with Parker Hannifin hydraulic hybrids (Booth 819).

New MPT Motors from Parker

Kollmorgen is promoting its second gen-eration inverter family for commercialhybrid and electric vehicles at Booth 514.

“The focus of this new inverter fam-ily is reduced size, reduced cost, andimproved reliability,” the company says.

“Reliability has been improved byleveraging power stage technology from proven high volume, low voltage inver ters, allowing Kollmorgen to reduce size and weight up to 50% com-pared to traditional hybrid vehicle inver ters, along with significantly reduced cost.”

Kollmorgen’s new inverter family con-sists of six models with a range of powerand voltage levels. “This broad rangeallows OEMs to integrate consistenttechnology into several different vehi-cles, thus simplifying integration and allowing higher volume purchasing toreduce cost,” the company says.

KollMorgen PromotesNew Inverter Family

FreightlinerStarts Start-StopTruck Deliveries

Business Class M2 106 has a parallel hybrid electric drive-train from Eaton and a 6.7 liter Cummins ISB diesel engine.

Noting that driver technique can affect fuel efficiency by 10 or even20%, Freightliner has added a HybridPerformance Gauge to help take fulladvantage of regenerative braking.

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Wheel motors are the way to go, says UK andTroy, Mich.-based Protean Electric, pro-moting a new breed of “through-the-road”hybrid it says can dramatically increase fuelefficiency – and can do so on existing vehi-cles via a relatively easy retrofit.

“It can make a hybrid, a plug-in hybrid oran EV out of an existing vehicle,” says salesand marketing VP Ken Stewart. Protean saysthat a European General Motors VauxhallVivaro with Protean wheel motors showeda 300% fuel economy improvement in hy-brid mode on a European drive cycle fuel test.

“This is an absolute game-changer,” Stewart says. “I can easily promise 30% orbetter fuel economy improvement even fora full-size truck or full-size van.”

Protean outfitted the front wheel-drive Vivaro with a through-the-road hybrid con-version kit – two Protean Electric PD-18 motors on the rear axle. The motors togetherprovide torque assist of up to 1,180 foot-pounds (1,650 Nm) peak and 740 lb.-ft.(1,000 Nm) continuous at the rear wheels.

The installation included a 21kWh battery, yield-ing more than 55 miles of pure electric range, combining plug-in hybrid and EV capabilities.

The system allows regenerative braking on therear wheels with no modifications to existingfront brakes, while retaining original engine anddrive. “Fleet operators should be lining up for a vehicle such as this,” said Protean chairman andCEO Bob Purcell.

Stewart, a veteran of GM and UTC Power,showed the Protean Vivaro for the first time inNorth America at a Center for Automotive Research management briefing seminar. “I’ll be

ready to talk about kits and prices in just a fewmonths,” he told Fleets & Fuels.

Protean (Booth 706) is an HTUF first-timer anda bronze sponsor of HTUF 2011. The firm receiveda Technology Pioneers award at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland on September 1.

Protean Electric tested its wheel motors on aVauxhall Vivaro van at Millbrook in the UK.

Protean Likes Wheel Motors

“We’re making a push to entice new fleetsand smaller fleets” to par ticipate in the Calstart- and California Air Resources Board-run Hybrid Truck and Bus Voucher Incentiveprogram, says Joe Calavita of CARB.

HVIP has about$12 million left forawards this year,

and excess money will be carried over to next,when another $11 has been budgeted to helpfleets reduce the up-front cost of buying hybrids. Next year will see an additional$10,000 for each of a given participant’s firstthree vouchers, Calavita says.

Tom Brother ton of Calstar t notes that battery electrics will be eligible in 2012 too.

Calstar t (Booth 412) is holding an HVIP workshop here Thursday morning at 11:30.

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Santa Monica, Calif-based Gladstein, Neandross& Associates will hold ACT Expo 2012 at the LongBeach Convention Center in Long Beach, Calif.May 14-17.

2012’s Alternative Clean Transportation Expois but the second in the ACT Expo series, butbuilds on a successful string of GNA-hosted

conferences on clean vehicles,

climate, biomethane, and port-freight topics. “With continued volatility in oil prices and

exceptional breakthroughs in alternative fuel vehicle technologies, we’ve developed ACT Expoto be a fleet-focused, project-driven, hands-on conference that provides information, tools andconnections to turn these resources into deploy-ments,” says GNA CEO Erik Neandross.

“The level offleet interest inalternative fueltechnologieshas reached a fever pitch,” Neandross told Fleets& Fuels. “We are starting to see some very signif-icant deployment projects hit the road.

“Representatives from these fleet operators willbe in attendance and speaking at ACT 2012.”

The 2011 event “exceeded expectations on allfronts and attracted a national audience of nearly1,500,” GNA says. Delegates took advantage ofmore than 100,000 square feet of exhibit space.There were 119 sponsors and exhibitors and 64 ve-

hicles on the show floor,and GNA says it expectsas many as 2,000 peoplefor ACT Expo 2012.GNA aims the show at allclean vehicles, includingelectric drive, gaseousfuels, and biofuels.

Organizers of HTUF 2011 are turningtheir attention to Indianapolis, where theNational Truck Equipment Associationwill hold its 48th Annual NTEA Con-vention March 5-8, 2012. WTS 2012will be preceded by Calstart’s Green TruckSummit March 5-6, 2012.

WTS 2011 was held in Indianapolistoo. Why go back, marking the first timeever for NTEA to hold back-to-backshows in the same place?

Show attendance was 10,020 – a 24%increase over 2010 and a 10% improve-

ment over the previous record of 9,084 set in 2007, NTEA said when thedust had cleared.

With 560 exhibitors (more than ever) occupying 16% more floor spacethan in 2010, the Work Truck Show 2011 was also the largest in the event’s12-year history.

“The Work Truck Show 2011 was our largest and most well-attendedevent to date,” said Frank Livas, NTEA 2012 convention chairman (he issenior VP at Brake & Clutch, Inc. of Salem, Mass.).

“We’re looking forward to building on that success in Indianapolis in2012 and beyond,” Livas said.

It’s not surprising thenthat NTEA has also givennotice that the 2013 WorkTruck Show will be held atthe Indiana ConventionCenter in Indianapolis –where last year’s show andprevious ones set atten-dance records. The datesare the same as 2012’s:March 5-8, 2013, includ-ing the 49th Annual NTEA Convention.

As is planned for 2012 inIndianapolis, it’s likely thatWTS 2013 will be pre-ceeded by Calstart’s Green Truck Summit in Indianapolis too.

Meanwhile, WTS 2012 registration has opened. NTEA promises500,000 square feet of vocational trucks and equipment, more than 60 intensive programs on industry topics from upfitting and regulatory com-pliance to OEM updates and business management, and new products andtechnical engineering support. The association has also pledged to extendthe hours of the WTS exhibition.


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NTEA senior business development director Doyle Sumrall at the 2011 Green Truck Summitin Indianapolis. Sumrall is also managing directorof the Green Truck Association, which is an NTEAaffiliate division.

October 17-19, Waste Fleet Confer-ence. Hyatt Regency in Dearborn, Mich.

October 19, CFTC 2011, Clean FleetTechnologies Conference organized bythe Houston-Galveston Area Council.Humble Civic Center in Humble, Texas.

October 21-23, NGVAmerica 2011 Con-ference Summit in Fort Worth, Texas.

October 25-26, National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Natural Gas Vehi-cle Technology Forum. Fort Mason inSan Francisco.

October 25-27, The Batter y Show2011. Novi, Mich. With Automotive Test-ing Expo Nor th America 2011 and Engine Expo 2011 North America, whichincludes an Electric and Hybrid Pavilion.

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San Jose, Calif.-based Wrightspeed,which is applying drivetrain knowhowfirst developed for a battery race car tomedium duty plug-in hybrid trucks (Fleets & Fuels, February 28), sees initial

fleet tests of an Isuzu NPR-platform vehicle commencing by Christmas. Wrightspeed has developed an integrated motor-inverter-transmission

unit for its drive, now tradenamed “The Route.” The company is usingits proprietary motor and controller and two-speed gearbox, and C30Capstone turbine as a generator – diesel or compressed natural gas.

“We use A123 modules and we build the battery system around them,”says CEO Ian Wright. “We’re not using any clutches at all,” he told Fleets& Fuels. “We’re synchronizing using the motor speeds and software” –something he says no one else has successfully achieved. The designis “lighter, cheaper, and more efficient,” Wrightspeed says.

“We have four fleets under NDAs who all want trial vehicles as soon asthey can get them,” Wright says. The list includes two large fleets and twosmaller local ones. One of the small ones will likely get the first trial Wright-speed vehicle. The Route is intended for retrofits. Fleets & Fuels, Sept. 26

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AAA has shown the first of a fleet of roadside assistance trucks designedto bring partial battery charges – enough to get to a charging station – tostranded electric vehicle drivers. Some trucks will carry large lithium ionbatteries – charged by the truck’s own gasoline powertrain – and others a

CNG-fueled generator rig as AAA eval-uates various technologies for variousregions. Brooklyn, N.Y.-based GreenCharge Networks is AAA’s develop-ment partner.

AAA will provide both Level 2 andLevel 3 – up to 500 volts DC – road-side charging star ting in the pilot

Seattle, Portland (Ore.), Knoxville (Tenn.), Tampa, San Francisco, and LosAngeles and metropolitan areas.

The AAA Roadside Assistance truck unveiled at Plug-In 2011 (the meet-ing was held in Raleigh, N.C. in July) – a Ford F-250 with Knapheide body –features a removable lithium-ion battery pack, charged via an “upsized” alternator and enhanced electrical system. Fleets & Fuels, August 1

AAA Gets Ready for EVs

Iveco’s hybrid electric Eurocargotruck, which was unveiled in Ger-many last year, made its UK debutat the Low Carbon Vehicle show.

The vehicle has a parallel hybridelectric drivetrain by Eaton andlithium ion batteries from Hitachi,says Iveco UK product director

Martin Flach. The drive enables multi-drop distribution in towns and citieswithout sacrificing high-speed per-formance, Iveco says. The Eurocargohybrid has a 16-valve, four-cylinderdiesel engine with maximum ratedpower of 180 horsepower – and a60-hp electric motor-generator. Thebattery pack has capacity of 1.9 kilo-watt-hours.

“We have managed to engineer allof the hybrid technology into the Eurocargo with only a 250-kilogrampayload deficit over a conventionaldiesel-engined model,” Flach said.

Fleets & Fuels, September 12(Eaton is at Booth 404 here.)

Iveco Shows Eaton Hybrid in UK

Wrightspeed’s integrated motor,inverter and two-speed gearbox

WrightspeedTaps A123

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Iveco’s Eaton-drive Eurocargo.

Stockton, Calif.-based Electric Vehicles International is workingwith $2.5 million in California Energy Commission support andoperator Pacific Gas & Electric ona new Range-Extended ElectricVehicle, based on the Ford F-550Super Duty, for late 2012 sale.

“It’s a plug-in series hybrid with batteries large enough for45 miles,” says EVI engineering

director Neil McKnight. The gasoline-fueled vehicle

with 6.2-liter engine is being designed for battery charge to bemaintained to operate a JEMSaerial lift by Altec, to minimizework-site idling.

JEMS stands for Jobsite EnergyManagement System.

As the truck is commercialized,the battery can be made larger or

smaller according to customerspecifications, McKnight says.

EVI will use lithium iron phos-phate batteries from its ValenceTechnology affiliate in Austin,Texas, and has baselined a trac-tion motor and a generator fromUQM Technologies in Colorado.

Fleets & Fuels, September 26(UQM is at Booth 314 at HTUF,

Altec is at 306, Smith is at 612)

Enter the REEV, by EVI, with JEMS

PG&E’s Smith Newton battery electric aerialtruck has separate battery systems for its driveline and Altec JEMS lift. The plug-in beingdeveloped by Electric Vehicles International isto have just one lithium iron phosphate pack.

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“We’ll be at 200 million miles by HTUF,”says a spokesman for Eaton, a goldsponsor here this week.

Eaton (Booth 404) reported 100 mil-lion miles of hybrid service at the endof 2010, and said that operators of hybrid vehicles with its drives reduced

their dieselfuel consump-tion by somefour millionmiles. “Morethan 4,500 ofEaton’s hybrid

systems are in use today on city buses,school buses, package delivery trucks,beverage delivery trucks, refrigerateddelivery trucks, refuse and recyclingtrucks, utility vehicles and other com-mercial applications,” the companysaid. Milestones included deliveries tocustomers in Asia, Australia, Europe,the UK and the U.S.

Most of Eaton’s hybrid sales are forelectric drive vehicles, but last yearEaton also began commercial produc-tion of its Hydraulic Launch Assist par-allel hydraulic hybrid system (page 6).

Bosch Rexroth HRB for NYC MacksFollowing successful trials showing fuel savings of as muchas 25%, HTUF 2011 silver spon-sor Bosch Rexroth is supplying itsHRB (hydrostatic regenerativebraking) drive as the New YorkCity Department of Sanitation hasordered ten vehicles from Mack Trucks. The Departmentis looking to buy as many as 300 hydraulic hybrids over thecourse of three years, as it sees the technology as more tech-nologically ready than electric hybrids. Bosch Rexroth hassome three dozen refuse trucks of various types with theHRB drive in worldwide service.

Altec JEMS for Idle ReductionAlabama-based Altec is promoting itsbattery-powered (and newly trade-marked) JEMS aerial lifts at Booth 306.JEMS – for Jobsite Energy Manage-ment System – allows lift trucks to

operate up to an hour onsite (depending on the size of thelift) with the truck’s engine off. Optional export power canbe used for hand tools. Also optional are lithium batteriesreplacing AGMs for more power for larger and heavier lifts.A compressed natural gas-fueled Ford F-450 (upfit by BAF)with a JEMS aerial lift was in the ride-and-drive at NTEA’sWork Truck Show in Indianapolis earlier this year.

A123 for ALTe HybridsALTe has named A123Systems (Booth 420) as a commercial-ization partner, reporting a long-term agreement for 21.6-kilowatt lithium ion battery packs for plug-in hybrid electricvehicles. ALTe’s plan, starting withpickup trucks, is to replace the V-8s inexisting vehicles with far smaller en-gines while installing a hybrid electric drivetrain using “hair-pin” HVH motors from Remy (Booth 506). “The powertrainswill be available through a nationwide network of conver-sion facilities for used vehicles,” ALTe says. The firm expectsto sell and license its drives to existing OEMs too.

Fiamm SoNick for Energy BatteriesFiamm is promoting its high-energy SoNick sodium nickelbatteries – best known as Zebra batteries – as an economi-cal alternative to lithium ion. The batteries have been used

in electric drive cars and trucks inFrance, Italy, Norway, the UnitedArab Emirates and the UK, and inhydrogen fuel cell buses and other

vehicles in the U.S. With more than100 million miles logged, they are said to be the number oneenergy battery in the world. They are impervious to ambi-ent temperature variations. HTUF bronze sponsor FiammSoNick is at Booth 606.

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Eaton Holds the Hybrid Lead

Azure Dynamics (Booth 106) is devel-oping a plug-in hybrid electric designfor Ford’s popular F-Series SuperDuty cab and chassis, starting withthe F-550, “expected in early 2013.”

An agreement with Ford also pro-vides for Azure to apply its emerging plug-in-hybrid technology to trucks including the F-350 and F-450.

The new F-Series program “furthers [the] existing business relationship between Azure and Ford that previously brought the innovative Transit Connect Electric and the E-450 Balance Hybrid Electric Step Van and Shuttle Bus to market,” Azure said. The F-550 agreement “spans all engine,frame length and regular production options and configurations,” and includesa ship-thru provision permitting Azure to place vehicles in the Ford trans-portation system, and Ford dealerships to sell and service the product.

Azure is targeting both bus and truck markets, says business developmentVP Jim Trask. Design work continues and a battery supplier has yet to be chosen, he told Fleets & Fuels. Azure is using lithium ion batteries from John-son Controls for its Balance hybrid and the pure battery electric Transit Connect (Johnson Controls has dissolved its joint venture with Saft).

Azure Looks to LargerFord-Based Vehicles

Using electricity here in Baltimore? We thought so.You may thank Baltimore Gas & Electric, the localutility and HTUF 2011 bronze sponsor.

BGE reports a total count of 1,320 fleet vehicles.About 600 run on soy-based B20 biodiesel, and theutility has 12 hybrid and six plug-in hybrid vehicles

including cars, SUVs, pickups and bucket trucks. The PHEVs, BGE says, havebeen acquired “to test their performance in everyday use, educate customerson alternative fuel vehicles and support our commitment to ‘green energy’ tech-nology. “The utility is testing these vehicles in every-day use to see how the company too can reduce itsuse of petroleum-based fuels and contribute to aclean environment.”

Got Electricity? Thank BGE

BGE Plug-in Prius

Azure’s Transit Connect Electric

Eaton offers a lineof EV chargers too.

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