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TOKYO, JAPAN – Japan's Isuzu Motors Ltd and Hino Motors Ltd will jointly develop technology for cleaning up emissions from diesel engines, in a bid to better compete with European and U.S. rivals.
Read More →LONDON, UK – Fast-food chain McDonald's has become the latest hospitality operator to commit to running its delivery fleet on biodiesel.
Read More →WATERBURY, VT — Green Mountain Coffee Roasters announced July 10 that it will use B-20 biodiesel in all of its Waterbury-based route trucks and facilities vehicles.
Read More →By next year, all 155 McDonald's delivery trucks will be running on biodiesel made of used cooking oil collected from the 1,200 restaurant locations in Britain.
Read More →WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee has approved an extension of the federal biodiesel tax incentive and other provisions critical to the sustained growth of the biodiesel industry
Read More →Other fuel-efficiency initiatives include further development of mild and two-mode hybrids, cylinder deactivation in a V-6; and another BlueTec clean-diesel vehicle.
Read More →DETROIT, MI – General Motors said it will introduce a new, state-of-the-art 4.5L V-8 Duramax turbodiesel that improves engine fuel efficiency by 25 percent, reduces CO2 emissions by 13 percent, and cuts particulates and NOx emissions by at least 90 percent for North American light-duty trucks and the HUMMER H2 built after 2009.
Read More →COLUMBUS, IN – Cummins, Inc. was awarded a contract for the supply of 1,400 Cummins Euro IV diesel engines and 250 Cummins Westport Euro III compressed natural gas engines by Beijing Public Transport Holdings Ltd. for Beijing's transit buses.
Read More →TOKYO, JAPAN – Toyota Motor Corp. has decided to outsource production of low-pollution diesel engines to Isuzu Motors Ltd. Isuzu will invest about 30 billion yen to build a diesel engine plant in Hokkaido that will exclusively supply Toyota.
Read More →MADISON, WI – Common, contract, and private motor carriers in Wisconsin interested in the installation of idling reduction equipment can receive grants from the Wisconsin Diesel Truck Idling Reduction Grant Program.
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