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Daimler Trucks NA SuperTruck achieves 115% freight efficiency improvement over 2009 baseline; 50.2% engine BTE

Green Car Congress

—Derek Rotz, principal investigator for SuperTruck, Daimler Trucks North America. The Freightliner SuperTruck uses a downsized and downsped 10.7-liter Friction-reducing measures include a variable speed water pump, a clutched air compressor, low-viscosity oil and an improved cylinder kit. Click to enlarge.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Bob Lutz, Vice Chairman, Product Development, and Chairman, GM North America in GMs interviewed by Carlist.com ). —Jim Press, president of Toyota Motor North America, first non-Japanese member of Toyota Motors Board of Directors in exclusive interview at Edmunds.coms. We hope Ford will, and then move ahead!

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