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FAW's proposal was turned down by CNH Industrial and, as a result, by its subsidiary FPT Industrial. CNH will pursue its existing plans for a spin-off of these activities in early 2022

The system showed a 74 percent reduction in NOx and a 5 percent reduction in CO2 compared with today’s clean diesel technologies. In comparison with current engine technologies and modifications to the thermal management techniques, dDSF saved 20 percent in fuel

Mercedes-Benz and Renault Trucks keep on working with the aim of implementing and testing the use of electric trucks. Starting from Germany, Daimler Truck announced that, «since July 2019, the purely battery-electric Mercedes-Benz eActros has proven its worth in extensive field testing at the compan...

Hino Isuzu and Toyota: The common denominator can be found using only these three names. But this isn’t just a Made in Japan alliance. A commercial vehicle agreement has been signed by the three parties. Take a look at what’s going on in Japan. Hino, Isuzu and Toyota share the CASE “Isuz...

Let’s talk about hydrogen. Westport Fuel Systems, one of the world’s largest suppliers of advanced alternative engine systems, has announced its collaboration with Scania on a research project on hydrogen direct injection engines. The project is aimed to apply Westport HPDI 2.0 hydrogen ...

BorgWarner’s latest High Voltage Hairpin (HVH) electric motor, the HVH 320, is ready to power a variety of hybrid and electric applications (here’s our post about the purchasing of Akasol) for commercial vehicle manufacturers, including a large European OEM. Production of the HVH 320, which is...

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FPT Industrial Longrun(s), in the sense that it works in the short and long term in reducing exhaust emissions. A contribution that applies to both off-highway and onroad. FPT Industrial’s involvement in onroad initiatives is certainly not new, given its familiarity with the bus&truck. Do ...

Škoda Auto has implemented a new processing line for plasma coating by adding an assembly line with two special fixtures for plasma coating at its main plant. Such an innovative concept allows conventional cylinder liners to be replaced with a powder coating that measures just 150 μm (0.15 mm), resu...

The Scania V8 engine is a truly iconic one, which has had quite a significant evolution in over 50 years (here, a post about the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the V8). The latest important developments were recently introduced by the company’s management: increased maximum power, a new ge...

BorgWarner will supply EGR modules for the next generation of FCA mild hybrids. It’s not the first time that we talk about BorgWarner’s efforts to speed up the development of hybrid or electric vehicles as well as to increase energy efficiency. This time, the news deals with a primary automotive bra...

Volkswagen looks away, batteries are the target. Despite the post-Covid shallows and the recession that has hit the passenger cars market hard, Volkswagen invests on batteries technology in order to accelerate the optimization of the full electric technology. For first, we report the news concernin...

The supervisory board of the global company ZF (here, we talk about R&D) has approved the foundation of a new division dealing with e-mobility. Namely, the new division is conceived for electrified drivelines for passenger cars. Such a change will happen at the very beginning of 2021 and coincid...

Deutz and the on-highway sector: here we are, again. The German manufacturer’s comeback is closely connected to the recent plans involving China and Sany, the biggest construction equipment and truck manufacturing group in the Asian country. As a matter of fact, the Kingway 435 truck unveiled by San...

Audi and the electric drives. You say Audi (member of VW Group) and it’s no wonder you associate the four ring brand with electric propulsion research. What perhaps not everyone knows is that Audi is number one in terms of patents for electric drives. We forward you part of the press release r...

The dashboard developed by Geotab and Webfleet Solutions aims to monitor and analyze data on the commercial mobility recovery after the lockdown period due to the pandemic in several European and North American countries. The data comes from around 100,000 anonymous customers. We have published here...

The fact that the current year is an exceptional one is in front of everyone’s eyes. For FIAMM Energy Technology, perhaps even more so. First – and we were at the beginning of 2020 – the announcement of the acquisition of Hitachi Chemical by another Japanese group, Showa Denko K.K., which is n...