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Volvo Penta starts production of E-driveline for world’s first serial electric fire truck

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All four electric machines have to be able to run simultaneously—two for propulsion, one for the range extender to provide extra battery power, and one for electric power takeoff, if fire-fighters want to rotate the foam pump for example.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The advanced technology vehicle would have an extended driving range on battery power alone and would also have a diesel or gasoline engine that could power the car when the battery was low. Batteries powerful enough to achieve that would fill up the trunk of a car, he said. 11/11/06 General Motors Corp.

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