The EPA has recently announced it is working to get the nation’s supply chain closer to cleaner, fuel efficient practices. The project will showcase a new EPA-patented technology on large equipment used to move the goods and products from ships to trucks. The machines are heavy duty diesel machines that contribute to the air pollutions in ports across the country.
The new technology is a hydraulic hybrid and features a unique power train that can generate, recover, store and reuse braking power with very little air pollution. The hydraulic vehicles will use a diesel-hydraulic system that will combine the cleanest available diesel engine technology with components that use hydraulic fluid compression to store energy. This new system has the potential to reduce close to 1,000 gallons of fuel per year. This test will demonstrate the quality and cleanliness of the new hydraulic hybrid engines.
For more information visit the EPA’s website at www.epa.gov.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment