by Walther Ploos van Amstel
‘LIFE ‘N GARB HY!’ stands for ‘LIquidation of Full Emission and Noise by GARBage trucks with HYdrogen’. The aim of this project is to convert two garbage trucks to hydrogen and to operate these mainly in and around the city of Eindhoven. In later stages, these vehicles will be demonstrated in ten different locations in …
After a year of intensive practical use by ten customers in Germany and Switzerland, eight of the Mercedes-Benz eActros battery-powered electric trucks are now successively going to new customers in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands. They also will put the eActros through its paces in tough everyday transport operations for about a year.
Dutch Peter Appel Transport, Albert Heijn, DAF Trucks, Simon Loos, and TNO are testing driving electric trucks-with-trailers in cities. As part of the test, not only fully electric trucks are used, but also plug-in hybrid trucks, a European first. The partners want to determine which functional and operational requirements they have to meet in order to deliver …
Joachim Drees, chairman of the Executive Board of Man Truck & Bus AG, and his board colleague Dr. Ulrich Dilling, responsible for production and logistics, handed over the first electric trucks of the type MAN eTGM at the Steyr production site at nine member companies of the Austrian Council for Sustainable Logistics (CNL).
Truck traffic today is generating congestion and is responsible for a disproportionate share of transport externalities. For example, while trucks may only represent a small share of the traffic in urban areas, they generate more than half of overall emissions for specific contaminants.
Since recently, textile care provider Lips+ in Rotterdam (NL) is using a 100% electric truck in using solar generated energy. It is a unique concept, in collaboration with Breytner, with the aim to improve the air quality in the city center.