The U.S. Army's National Automotive Center is HTUF 2010 co-host. NAC is co-located with the U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command at the Detroit Arsenal. TACOM stands for Tank Automotive and Armaments Command.
Calstart president John Boesel at the wheel of a battery electric Tesla Roadster... we happen to know he usually drives his dedicated-CNG Honda Civic GX
HTUF Brain Trust: Calstart senior VP Bill Van Amburg, U.S. Army TARDEC director Paul Skalny, and Calstart president John Boesel on Day 1 in Dearborn
Siemens execs will drive to HTUF from Atlanta in this bus outfitted with Siemens Elfa drivetrain hardware
2010 Ford Transit Connect on show by the manufacturer in Royal Oak, Mich.
Ford Transit Connect at San Francisco City Hall on March 4, 2010, just prior to its appearance at the NTEA Work Truck Show in St. Louis. Ford program leader Praveen Cherian is in the dark suit in the foreground, to his left is alt fuels advocate John Janes of San Francisco Ford.
Sam Mateo, Calif.-based Motiv Power Systems is looking for traction motor and lithium ion battery suppliers for a $2.7 million California Energy Commission project involving a modified Ford E-450 cutaway
Buses with Allison parallel hybrid drives have logged more than 253 million miles and saved more than 13 million gallons of fuel since their 2003 debut (figures as of July 1)
EMP's second-generation Mini-Hybrid thermal system includes integrated fan motors and controllers with heat-dissipating fins, and automotive grade electrical connectors
ALTe would replace a truck's factory gasoline drivetrain with a far more efficient series hybrid electric powertrain driven by a 2.0-liter engine
A123's new facility in Livonia, Mich. for Nanophosphate brand batteries is said to be the largest automotive lithium ion battery manufacturing plant in North America
Ann Arbor-based New Eagle MotoHawk tools can help you design and program critical electronics for hybrid drive and electric vehicles
Bosch Rexroth supplied the hydraulic hybrid drivetrain for this Crane Carrier LET2 with a Heil Environmental CP Python Rapid Rail automated side loader body, which is entering a long-term field test evaluation with the Environmental Waste Services Department in Garland, Texas. Bosch Rexroth markets the drive as HRB, for Hydrostatic Regenerative Braking.
Aerial view of just a few of the ride-and-drive vehicles at HTUF 2009 in Atlanta. Elevation courtesy Terex. More than 60 additional photos at http://picasaweb.google.com/fleetsandfuels/HTUF2009InAtlanta
Terex HyPower bucket truck at HTUF 2009 in Atlanta... this year Terex has a digger derrick too
Oshkosh HEMTT A3 -- Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck -- with ProPulse hybrid electric drivetrain featuring available export power of up to 120 kilowatts – ‘military grade.’ Seen at HTUF 2009 in Atlanta.
Oshkosh HEMTT A3 -- Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck -- with ProPulse hybrid electric drivetrain featuring available export power of up to 120 kilowatts – ‘military grade.’
A Navistar International chassis, Eaton hybrid drive, Altec aerial bucket truck on show by Pacific Gas & Electric in San Francisco
Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp walk-in van with battery electric drivetrain by Enova Systems at HTUF 2009 in Atlanta
Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp's rep sent us this incredibly tantalizing tease of the new Morgan Olson body style for FCCC's walk-in van -- the wraps will be taken off on Tuesday
Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp's new Morgan Olson body style for its walk-in van, unveiled at HTUF 2010 as a full battery electric vehicle with drivetrain by Enova Systems
Oshkosh is furnishing trial on-board vehicle power kits to MARCORSYSCOM, the U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command. The OBVP kits use the heavy truckmaker’s ProPulse diesel-electric drive technology. They are to be installed on the Corps’ all-terrain MTVRs (medium tactical vehicle replacements) by January 2012 with testing to start in March 2012.
Calstart is targeting Class 8 heavy duty and port drayage truck fuel use reductions of 50% as it sets up the new CalHeat — the California Hybrid, Efficient and Advanced Truck research clearinghouse — with a grant of $3 million from the California Energy Commission.
Allison Transmission is targeting a wide range of trucks for its new lithium-batteried, single-motor parallel hybrid drive for trucks
BAE Systems powers thousands of hybrid-drive Orion VII buses by Daimler Buses North America, including this one shown at HTUF 2009 in Atlanta. The California Energy Commission may help bring BAE into hybrid trucks.
Odyne-Dueco is going head to head with Eaton as its plug-in hybrid electric bucket truck is tested in Wisconsin by Madison Gas & Electric
Dow Kokam VP Chuck Reardon will detail his firm's wide range of customizable lithium polymer batteries for hybrid vehicles at HTUF 2010
Siemens Drive Technologies pilgrims to Dearborn are business manager Thomas Orberger, project manager Josh Nelke, marketing intern Sina Weberskirch, marketing communications manager Helen Wu, and world traveler Flat Stanley (honorary crew member)
Eaton-drive Freightliner Business Class M2 106 hybrid truck being used to deliver diesel fuel -- more economically -- by Massachusetts- and Sacraento-based Direct Diesel
The Green Truck Association is an affiliate division of NTEA, the National Truck Equipment Association -- http://www.greentruckassociation.com/
Colorado's Lightning Hybrids is looking to certify fuel savings of 40% for its hydraulic hybrid retrofits, to go on sale for GM pickups in November, with installations commencing in January. Hydraulic accumulator shells by Worthington/SCI
HyPER Assist by Lightning Hybrids
US Hybrid's Abas Goodarzi
New York City's first hybrid electric sweeper, an Allianz 4000 with series drivetrain by US Hybrid... US Hybrid chief Abas Goodarzi at far left
Calstart president John Boesel
Almost any vehicle is a candidate for hybridization... this is an Allianz T500 litter picker
New York City is testing two Kalmar port trucks with parallel hybrid drives by US Hybrid -- and a plug-in unit
NRG Dynamix, the former Limo-Reid, claims proprietary hydraulic hybrid drivetrain technology
At one time the term ‘HTUF truck’ meant one thing and one thing only: a Navistar-chassis, Eaton-drive utility bucket truck. Today, Navistar hybrid bucket trucks are a commercial item, and Calstart is working to duplicate its success in half a dozen other trucking sectors.
Daimler’s Shad Carnes spiffs up the underhood area of Freightliner Business Class M2 106 hybrid on Tuesday. The commercially available vehicle has a parallel hybrid electric drivetrain by Eaton (Regency 15).
US Hybrid founder and CEO Dr. Abas Goodarzi
Bosch business development manager Joe Slenzak explains the company’s powertrain electrification efforts at Foyer 21. On show is a cutaway of the permanent magnet AC motor (also the associated power inverter) for the “full parallel” hybrid versions of the Porsche Cayenne and Volkswagen Touareg SUVs. The manufacturer is using nickel metal hydride batteries.
Equipment’s very diversity has been a challenge.
Calstart is stepping up its HTUF off-road efforts
non-combat military equipment is targeted for hybridization
Eaton-drive Navistar bucket truck operated by Pacific Gas & Electric, with Altec (Regency 4) lift.
New York City has a CNG-fueled LET 2 truck by Crane Carrier with an HRB hydraulic hybrid drive by Bosch Rexroth. An HRB Condor is in the ride-and-drive.
New Eagle helps design and program vital electric drive vehicle electronics with tools like MotoHawk
NRG Dynamics offers a hydraulic hybrid drivetrain
Lightning Hybrids will start selling in November.
Eaton HLA on M2 112 Freightliner chassis, executed by Fontaine.
Eaton HLA drive (for Hydraulic Launch Assist), a retrofittable parallel hydraulic drivetrain
Calstart senior VP Bill Van Amburg, Paul Skalny, director of the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center’s National Automotive Center, and Calstart president John Boesel
Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp's new walk-in van, body by Morgan Olson
Allianz 4000-series sweeper, with series hybrid electric drivetrain by US Hybrid
Paul Skalny, director of the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center’s National Automotive Center (photo by Elizabeth Carnegie)
wait.... if the bucket is down....
Altec provides lift... David Payne at the controls
Kollmorgen has brought this Kenworth T300 with permanent magnet AC generator for the ride-and-drive.
Kollmorgen generator
Oshkosh MTRV, CATA New Flyer bus (with EMP fan unit), and Bright Automotive road show trailer at HTUF 2010 in Dearborn
UQM's PowerPhase 200 motor-generator and cp
Territory manager Joe Perry of Michelin explains the weight- and fuel-saving attributes of the double-wide, low-rolling resistance X One tire to Master Sergeant Thuan Treon of the U.S. Army at HTUF 2010
Calstart senior VP Bill Van Amburg, Paul Skalny, director of the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center’s National Automotive Center, and Calstart HTUF program director Richard Parish
25 of the 35 vehicles for the HTUF 2010 ride-and-drive
See the demo, get a flashlight
view from a bucket
Siemens Dearborn pilgrims: project manager Josh Nelke, business manager Thomas Orberger, marketing intern Sina Weberskirch, and marketing manager Helen Wu.
Delphi showed a solid oxide fuel cell truck... with the truck are chief engineer for SOFCs Steven Shaffer, business development manager Andrew Rosenblatt, and advanced powertrain chief engineer Daniel Hennessy
Margo Oge, director of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality, addresses HTUF 2010 via video on September 29
Checking out ALTe's retrofittable hybrid electric drive at HTUF 2010
Crane Carrier LET 2 chassis with HLA-Hydraulic Launch Assist parallel hydraulic hybrid drivetrain by Eaton Corp at HTUF 2010 ride-and-drive
Parker Hannifin RunWise series hydraulic hybrid drive Autocar Xpeditor E3 truck at the HTUF 2010 ride-and-drive
Ohio-based economist Peter R. Thomas is strategic advisor to FZ SoNick
Fiamm FZSonick batteries powered a Citroën Berlingo vehicle that completed a Venturi-sponsored battery-powered run from Shanghai to Paris this year: “two and a half months of driving on roads and tracks across China, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany and finally France.”
Remy International global automotive and hybrid sales VP Tom VanderLaan with power-dense HVH410 and HVH250 'hairpin' motors
The U.S. Army's developmental CERV -- Clandestine Extended Range Vehicle -- has a lightweight chassis and a new all-wheel-drive, diesel hybrid electric drivetrain, all developed in league with TARDEC, the Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center by Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide
BAE bruiser has a UQM Technologies motor (we understand)
reaching for the Dearborn sky
Ford F-550 with plug-in hybrid electric drivetrain by Eaton
Dow Kokam VP Chuck Reardon (in the Stanley Steamer suite at the Hyatt Regency Dearborn)
Dueco is challenging Eaton with an 18-kilowatt-hour plug-in aerial truck
Matt Jarmuz of Dueco-Odyne with plug-in hybrid electric compressor truck at HTUF 2010 ride-and-drive
This hybrid electric Mack truck operated by the U.S. Air Force was shown at the HTUF 2009 show in Atlanta
Besides the battery electric Ford Transit Connect, Azure Dynamics brought this Balance Plus parallel hybrid step van for the HTUF 2010 ride-and-drive.
Azure sales director Jeff Hyatt and fleet sales director Mike Byers
Navistar hybrid powertrains director Darren Gosbee with Modec-based, A123 lithium Nanophosphate-powered, Zytek-drive eStar battery electric van at HTUF 2010
Calstart's Steve Sokolsky
Capstone Turbine-powered hybrid with Parker Hannifin motor on Freightliner chassis by Artisan Vehicle Systems at HTUF 2010
Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp van with hydraulic hybrid drivetrain by Parker Hannifin at HTUF 2010
Navistar's eStar
series hybrid electric drivetrain supplier Abas Goodarzi of US Hybrid with Walter Pusic of Allianz with 4000-Series street sweeper at HTUF 2010 ride-and-drive
