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Vehicle maintenance planning from TomTom Business Solutions is set to help businesses optimise fleet efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. By ensuring fleets are well-maintained and that driver performance is optimised, the energy efficiency of vehic
It has been a little over one year since Edbro launched the latest cylinder from its CX range, the CX14. Designed as a compact combined tank and cylinder unit, the CX Series provides weight saving benefits to rigid truck applications...
What Do Big Oil and EV Batteries Have in Common? -- Seeking Alpha
<strong><a href="http://www.cleantechblog.com">Neal Dikeman</a>submits:</strong><p>For those of you interested in the sector under the sector in electric vehicles, the guts of Li-Ion battery technology, the week just got more interesting than an overpriced, over hyped Tesla IPO.<br><br>Check out
'Opposed-piston-opposed-cylinder' engine...is this the truck diesel of the future wonders Biglorryblog?
If you thought that diesel engines were like this with only had one piston-per-cyclinder which goes up and down (or in the case of a bus engine, side-to-side) then this video clip http://www.engineeringtv.com/video/Opposed-Piston-Opposed-Cylinder which was sent to me by Dominic...
Scania, Oil and Iraq
More news here,this time with the addition of Ostling's name to the mix....
Scania's Collar Felt Over Oil for Food Kickback
According to this report. http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9J5H4H02.htm
Oil exploration in Russia...how an Allison auto is keeping this Scania rolling in -55°С! Biglorryblog has the story...
Now here's a truck that's certainly not down in the dumps...that's because this Scania 6x6 dump truck with an Allison auto box has covered 430,000 trouble-free kilometres in temperatures that woudl freeeze the balls of a brass monkey! The six-wheeler oilfield truck serves...
Electric Cars and Oil Demand -- Seeking Alpha
<strong><a href='http://piedmonthudson.wordpress.com/'>John Lounsbury</a>submits:</strong><p>Green crusaders have long offered a scenario where electric vehicles would diminish the burning of fossil fuels. Other analysts have suggested that the impact on oil consumption will be negligible because
Seismic thumpers return to Biglorryblog. More weird machines for the anorak faithful from George!
It's semic thumper time on Biglorryblog thanks to Richard Stanier's mate George Avramidis who has sent this brochure stuff to BLB following my recent blog on a rather weird tracked beastie heading off into the desert...George says:
The World's rarest trucks! Rebuilding Germany with the two-cylinder Econom and 'The Brochure King' on Biglorryblog!
Biglorryblog Biglorryblog is brought to you by Roadtransport.com The World's rarest trucks! Rebuilding Germany with the two-cylinder Econom and 'The Brochure King' on Biglorryblog! By BigLorryBlog on March 16, 2010 8:47 AM | 4 Comments | No TrackBacks Econom 1951.jpg "Hi Brian," says 'The Brochure
Even Big Oil Execs Think We're Headed to an Electric Future -- Seeking Alpha
<strong><a href='http://www.thecarconnection.com'>TheCarConnection.com</a>submits:</strong><p>Within the auto industry, we can attest that attitudes about electric vehicles are radically different than they were just a decade ago. But finding out that a Big Oil executive has predicted electric
