Lightning Hybrids, designer and manufacturer of hydraulic brake regeneration systems for medium- and heavy-duty fleet vehicles, announced it has been awarded a full U.S. utility patent for the fourth ...

Eaton recently discontinued its Hydraulic Launch Assist system, which was a parallel hydraulic hybrid. That leaves the RunWise Advanced Series Hybrid drive system from Parker to serve the refuse ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced the road test of a United Parcel Service hybrid delivery vehicle, which was developed in partnership with International Truck & Engine Corp., ...

That’s not to say hybrid technology has no role in heavy equipment. There is a great deal of research aimed at applying hybrid techniques in big trucks and utility vehicles. But the advanced ...

Volvo Trucks North America now offers its D12 series engines as a North American remanufactured product backed by a two-year unlimited-mileage warranty. The company says remanufacturing the Volvo D12 ...

Being a relative neophyte when it comes to hybrid technologies, I got excited when Eaton Corp. invited me to its proving grounds in Marshall, Mich. to take a spin in one. I’m familiar with some of the ...

Hydraulic hybrid systems are time-tested technology in the world of heavy equipment like farm tractors and bulldozers. Now the technology is making its way into delivery and garbage trucks as well – ...

Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue 83: Advances in Sustainable Port and Ocean Engineering (FALL 2018), pp. 513-519 (7 pages) Conventional port hybrid vehicles can’t ef fectively recycle ...

To improve the dynamic response performance of a high-flow electro-hydraulic servo system, scholars have conducted considerable research on the synchronous and time-sharing controls of multiple valves ...

Bosch Rexroth Corp., Hoffman Estates, Ill., has been selected by CALSTART’s Hybrid Truck Users Forum (HTUF) Refuse Working Group to examine and test the use of hybrid vehicle technology in refuse ...

Autoblog dug up this classic mechanical engineering project from 2006. A team of five University of Toledo students constructed a system to help parallel park a car. First, you drive nose first into ...