Daimler Trucks North America says it has collaborated with Walmart Transportation to build a hybrid-electric Freightliner Cascadia. The truck-tractor also marks the beginning of a long-term strategic partnership between DTNA and Walmart to develop innovative, green technologies.
Based on a Walmart-spec’d tractor, the 72-inch raised-roof Cascadia has a Detroit Diesel DD15 and a parallel hybrid system with an electric motor-generator geared to its second drive axle. The system uses advanced lithium-ion batteries for energy storage and advanced electronic controls that were developed in collaboration with the Daimler Trucks Global Hybrid Center in Japan.
With this hybrid system, the conventional drivetrain remains completely intact, allowing for high system reliability from the very beginning. Initial assessments of fuel savings indicate further potential for this technology, Daimler said.
Long-time customer Walmart will work closely with DTNA engineers to create new products that will ultimately serve as a roadmap to future innovations, the two companies said.
“Walmart is partnering with our suppliers like Daimler Trucks North America to develop technologies that will improve the efficiency and lessen the impact of our operations,” said Chris Sultemeier, Walmart’s senior vice president of transportation. “These partnerships help to prove out these technologies and speed up the time to market.”
“We look forward to seeing what else this joint venture will result in, and to providing Walmart and all of our customers with the right tools that will positively impact their bottom line,” said Mark Lampert, senior vice president of sales and marketing for Daimler Trucks North America.
DTNA’s existing products powered by alternative technologies include the Freightliner Business Class M2-106 Hybrid and M2-112 natural gas-powered trucks and tractors.
Printer Friendly Version
Email This Story
RSS
Environment: Related News
10/26/2010 – Daimler Builds Hybrid-Electric Cascadia for Walmart
Daimler Trucks North America says it has collaborated with Walmart Transportation to build a hybrid-electric Freightliner Cascadia. The truck-tractor also marks the beginning of a long-term strategic partnership between DTNA and Walmart to develop innovative, green technologies….
More
10/26/2010 – EPA-DOT Proposals Ignore Natural Gas, NGV America Complains
Clean-burning domestically produced natural gas has been left out of the federal government’s proposed rule to reduce emissions and improve fuel efficiency in commercial vehicles,…
More
10/25/2010 – Smith Electric Vehicles Delivers All-Electric Trucks To Staples
Office supply chain Staples is adding 41 all-electric trucks to its fleet….
More
10/21/2010 – Volvo Testing LNG Trucks in Sweden
Volvo Trucks has started public field testing in Sweden of diesel trucks that can run on liquefied methane gas, or what is more commonly known in this country as liquefied natural gas or LNG….
More
10/21/2010 – Clean Diesel, Upcoming GHG Standards Topics at Washington, D.C., Event
This political season is full of angry noise about intrusive, wasteful government regulation, but on Tuesday a choir of businessmen and regulators gathered in Washington, D.C., to sing praises of each other.
Truck and engine manufacturers joined with environmental activists and the Environmental Protection Agency to celebrate a successful, decade-long effort to build a clean diesel engine — and to look ahead to upcoming fuel efficiency standards….
More
10/11/2010 – Oregon Working on EV Charging Trail
Oregon will install up to eight electric vehicle fast-charging stations along Interstate 5 from Eugene south to the California border….
More
10/11/2010 – Bill Would Help With Idle-Reduction Purchases
One of the many bills introduced right before Congress left for its election recess is one that would offer tax incentives for clean energy, including one that would help with the purchase of idle-reduction technologies for heavy-duty vehicles….
More
10/6/2010 – Pilot Flying J to Get Natural Gas Fueling Outlets
Clean Energy has signed an agreement with Pilot Flying J Travel Centers to operate public-access, compressed and liquefied natural gas fueling facilities at certain travel centers across the country….
More
10/5/2010 – Scania Collaborating in Biofuel Research
Scania has been granted SEK 30 million — about $4.43 million — by Sweden’s Strategic Vehicle Research and Innovation Initiative to develop a biofuel engine for heavy commercial vehicles….
More
10/4/2010 – UPS Purchases 130 Hybrid Electric Vehicles
UPS announced the purchase of 130 next-generation hybrid electric vehicles to add to its growing alternative-fuel vehicle (AFV) fleet….
More
9/28/2010 – CARB Program Puts 650 Hybrids to Work in California
The California Air Resources Board says an innovative financial incentive program has helped put more than 650 hybrid trucks and buses on California roads….
More