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With new aerodynamic options and upgrades, the New Cascadia tractor is now 35% more fuel-efficient than the first-generation Cascadia rolled out in 2007.
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The North American Council for Freight Efficiency is in the early planning stages of a regional version of its 2017 Run on Less fuel-economy road show.
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Fleets are benefiting from increased adoption of the latest fuel-saving technologies, but are still falling short of what is possible, according to a new report from the North American Council For Freight Efficiency.
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No standard means of demonstrating the efficiency of electric vehicles has taken root in trucking yet. But the EPA’s MPGe rating gives fleet managers a useful means of comparing new vehicles with conventional ones.
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The key event of Shell Lubricants' Make the Future California and Eco-marathon Americas 2018 festival was the Eco-marathon mileage challenge. The competition featured 99 high school teams vying to set a new mileage mark while piloting their class-constructed vehicles around the Sonoma Raceway track. Photos: Jim Beach
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It's possible to average over 10 mpg in real-world, over-the-road truck freight operations, but that doesn't mean it's easy to maximize fuel economy, according to a new, in-depth report from the North American Council for Freight Efficiency analyzing its Run on Less fuel-efficiency roadshow.
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Driver David Gooch was able to sustain 11.21 miles per gallon over 5,599 miles during the #Raceto10mpg challenge put on by Cumberland International and Sharp Transport.
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Last year, our annual special June fuel issue focused on the question of how feasible it was to hit 10 mpg in real-world operations, not a million-dollar concept SuperTruck. This summer, a couple of initiatives are putting that to the test.
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Navistar's SuperTruck is the fourth and final truck to come from round 1 of the Department of Energy's SuperTruck funding initiative. Equipment Editor Jim Park caught up with the truck and chief engineer Dean Oppermann at the annual conference of the SAE Commercial Vehicles conference in Rosemont, Illinois.
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The Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration submitted its proposed Phase 2 GHG/MPG rule for trucks and trailers to the Office of Management and Budget on June 3 for required regulatory review.
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