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How To Successfully Manage Business Vehicle Expenses

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This will reduce your vehicle expenses as you will not need to pay out for vehicles, nor will you need to fund maintenance, servicing and more. Create and Sustain a Maintenance Schedule It is cost and time efficient for your business to create and maintain a vehicle maintenance schedule.

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Murata and Michelin co-develop embeddable RFID module for tires

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This simple yet elegant technology delivers low-cost and easy tire traceability throughout its entire lifespan, enabling the management of inventory logistics, aftermarket maintenance, and recycling operations. Currently, Michelin uses the RFID tags in commercial vehicles, such as trucks, buses and passenger cars.

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Westport and GTI awarded $900,000 to advance natural gas combustion technology; ESI with high frequency corona discharge ignition

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liters per cylinder and is targeted at medium-duty commercial vehicle applications. The technology enables a “downsized” natural gas solution that is cost-competitive while providing similar levels of power, torque, and fuel economy to a larger diesel engine. The engine has a displacement of between 1 and 1.5

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Ford introduces new 2.0L EcoBlue diesel; fuel consumption cut by up to 13%

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liter Ford EcoBlue debuts in the new Transit and Transit Custom commercial vehicles, increasing fuel efficiency by more than 10%. The new engine also delivers passenger car refinement to the commercial segment, reducing radiated noise by 4 decibels at idle. Commercial vehicle durability. The four-cylinder 2.0-liter

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Mercedes-Benz to use new steel pistons in V6 diesel of E 350 BlueTEC

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The new pistons contribute to the maintenance of the same engine output (190 kW/ 258 hp), but with fuel consumption of around 5.0 This is particularly advantageous for further downsizing concepts. Click to enlarge.

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Study finds fleet switch from PFI to GDI engines will result in net reduction in global warming

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Although real-world fuel economy improvements from GDI technology alone are close to 1.5%, they can reach 8% by downsizing and turbocharging the engine, which can be achieved on GDI engines without loss of power compared to PFI engines. emission control technologies, and vehicle age and maintenance history. …

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DOE to award up to $137M for SuperTruck II, Vehicle Technology Office programs

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SuperTruck II builds on the successful SuperTruck I program, which has already led to more than twenty fuel saving technologies that have reached the commercial market, said Acting Assistant Secretary David Friedman. In 2010, the Energy Department launched the SuperTruck initiative to improve heavy-duty truck freight efficiency by 50%.

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