Mitsubishi Fuso Adds Telogis Telematics to Cabovers

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck of America Inc. will offer a Telogis-powered telematics system as standard equipment on all FUSO medium-duty, diesel cabover trucks, the manufacturer announced at the Work Truck Show in Indianapolis.

“The Telogis software will help provide FUSO owners and fleet operators with improved safety, better logistics control, and more efficient operations,” said Jecka Glasman, president and CEO. “The selection of Telogis as our telematics partner followed extensive study of the systems available to satisfy our customers' needs, and we felt Telogis provided a superior level of technology, customer service, and a record of continual innovation. We look forward to a long and fruitful partnership.”

The two firms will integrate Telogis telematics capabilities into all of FUSO's future Class 3 through Class 5 turbocharged diesel commercial trucks.

“By adopting Telogis telematics solutions, FUSO will be bringing the highest quality vehicle connectivity and advanced technologies to its future customers," said Susan Heystee, Telogis' senior vice president of OEM business. "The Telogis software platform is designed to improve fleet operational efficiency, help keep drivers safer, and reduce costs, and we continue to carry on an aggressive program of software innovation."

Related: Verizon Acquires Telogis

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The 2017 NTEA Work Truck Show: Day 1

The 2017 National Truck Equipment Association (NTEA) Work Truck Show started off with the annual Green Truck Summit, featuring truck engineers, state and federal government officials, plus fleet managers providing their take on the current and future direction of alternative fuels and future commercial vehicle designs. But it's not all "work" at the Work Truck Show, as the good folks from Adrian Steel Co. set out to prove. (All photos by Sean Kilcarr and Cristina Commendatore)

Plotting the Path from Diesel to Electric Trucks

DTNA's Achenbach keynoting the Green Truck Summit Photo: David Cullen

INDIANAPOLIS -- Alternative fuels and propulsion systems offer a compelling array of environmentally friendly powertrain options to consider, but it's still too soon to write off diesel as trucking's juice of choice.

Rather, according to Daimler Truck North America's Wilfried Achenbach, fleets will keep benefiting from increasingly more fuel-efficient diesel trucks as the path to deploying far greener electric-drive trucks in North America is worked out in the years ahead.

“It doesn't make any sense to go [directly] to electricity,” Achenbach, DTNA's senior vice president of engineering and technology, explained in his keynote address to the Green Truck Summit held here March 14 ahead of the NTEA Work Truck Show.

“Many people investigate what can be done and what is reasonable. But there is no simple answer. And do not discount diesel.” Indeed, Altenbach almost casually predicted that soon “ten miles per gallon will become the new normal' for diesel-fueled highway tractors.

Still, Achenbach said the industry will have to move away from diesel if it is ever to meet tightening limits for greenhouse-gas tailpipe emissions.Referencing the watershed Paris Agreement 2016 to cut greenhouse gas emissions globally, he said OEMs have “to put on the brakes if we continue burning diesel as we do today. [If not] we will not be able to live up to those limits.”

Diesel technology has been refined enough over the last 30 years to drastically slash both emissions of particulate matter and NOx, but still to be cut further are CO2 emissions. Achenbach pointed out that trucks still produce 6% percent of CO2 emissions in the U.S.—and 75% of those emissions are generated by long-haul Class 8 trucks.

To bring that down, the Phase 2 GHG rules mandate a 25% fuel-efficiency gain for tractor-trailers by 2027. Achenbach said the upshot will ...Read the rest of this story

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