Topic: 19.44 l per 100 km That's great!!!!

[airbalancer]

http://www.auto123.com/en/news/car-news/the-new-mercedes-benz-actros-finds-its-way-into-the-guinness-book-of-records?artid=97978

That is great, I wonder what a small truck would get

[Gwendly]

that is amazing really, hopefully we'll start to see these in NA too

[tpl]

I wonder if they will be price competitive with the NA truck makers when and if they arrive here.

I'd bet they require ultra low sulphur fuel and all that goes with that. 

[airbalancer]

would not all diesel  be ULS diesel in NA now

[safristi]

HONKIN' required..............great balls O' Fire.........

[Schmengie]

I guess any progress like this is a good thing, but it might be too little, too late. I think long-distance truck transport as we know it today is on the way out. Railways are much more efficient, produce fewer emissions per unit of weight carried and have the potential of hugely reducing the strain that these huge transport trucks put on our road-based infrastructure.  Heavy trucks are destroying the roads around here and make driving in traffic a life-threatening experience, so personally I can hardly wait. 
 

[Guy]

All on road diesel's have to run on ULS. US07 emissions mandatory. Same rules up here.

[dorin]

Wow...  That's almost 1/2 ton pick-up truck fuel consumption but for a 40-ton semi.   

[Zoo]

I guess any progress like this is a good thing, but it might be too little, too late. I think long-distance truck transport as we know it today is on the way out. Railways are much more efficient, produce fewer emissions per unit of weight carried and have the potential of hugely reducing the strain that these huge transport trucks put on our road-based infrastructure.  Heavy trucks are destroying the roads around here and make driving in traffic a life-threatening experience, so personally I can hardly wait. 
 

I would be happy to see this but I think with everyone wanting "Just In Time" processing and ordering the big rig will be with us for a long time. I would love to see more intermodal stuff so that the rails are handling more of the long hauls and the rigs are just taking the intermodal container from the railways yard to the final destination.

[barrie1]

I will check into the engine design on this as we will probably get this type of engine here in Canada. Mercedes owns Freightliner,Sterling and Western Star as well so sooner or later the new designs will cross over into these makes as well. This is a 40 ton unit but I wonder how well the much heavier class 8 equipment will do as they can run as high as 100 Tons just in payload with the correct licencing. We still have alot of older style engined locomotives left in North America which are not all that fuel effecient at all in comparison to the newer ones built by GM or Greenbriar now. Greenbriar bought out the Locomotive Division from GM about 3 years ago now approx. 

[360ci]

My 2006 Columbia Class Freightliner with the 12.7L MBE9000 engine and 13 speed ran an average 32L/100km. If I was an owner operator I'd be all over getting 20L/100km! No matter how slow it is!

[tpl]

All on road diesel's have to run on ULS. US07 emissions mandatory. Same rules up here.

I was thinking specifically of the "euro style" diesel such as the Shell V power diesel. Higher cetane rating than the regular stuff.

I noticed that it does cost  3 c/litre more here thant Shells regular diesel... wouldn't matter for a car but for a 40 tonne semi thats a lot of money over a year.

[ovr50]

I guess any progress like this is a good thing, but it might be too little, too late. I think long-distance truck transport as we know it today is on the way out. Railways are much more efficient, produce fewer emissions per unit of weight carried and have the potential of hugely reducing the strain that these huge transport trucks put on our road-based infrastructure.  Heavy trucks are destroying the roads around here and make driving in traffic a life-threatening experience, so personally I can hardly wait. 
 

Don't think that will happen in the foreseeable future. There are too many advantages to truck transport to stop using it, althougth more fuel efficient truck engines will need to be developed. Even if you have extensive rail transit (which doesn't even exist today), trucks are still needed to move stuff from rail depots to final desinations.

The demise of the trucking industry is a long way off.