HTUF 2010 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2010 HTUF Expands A telecommunications group is formed with AT&T and Verizon as backers, and the military working group, focused on non- combat vehicles operated by the American armed services, meets for the first time. —Pages 4 and 6 The U.S. EPA New truck mileage standards will be forth- coming soon, Margo Oge of the U.S. EPA warned via video here yesterday. She said that for trucks to get cleaner and leaner, industry must get on board. —Page 6 The U.S. Army Fuel-saving hybrids for the Army was the goal when HTUF was formed, but it has since become apparent that the commer- cial sector had to come first. —Page 6 The largest ride-and-drive in a decade of HTUF is taking place today: 35 vehicles right here at the Hyatt Regency. Parker Hannifin HTUF Ride-and-Drive Hydraulic Hybrids Hydraulic hybrids have eclipsed electrics Is the Biggest Ever in some sectors, notably very heavy stop- Calstart’s Hybrid Truck and-go vehicles, like garbage trucks. Parker Users Forum is celebrat- Hannifin’s RunWise drive powers 11 new ing its tenth anniversary this year Autocar Xpeditor E3s in Florida. —Page 10 — and its biggest year: HTUF 2010 has broken all records with nearly 700 attendees, up 10% from 2009 in Atlanta and a far cry from the 100 or so people who came to the inaugural event in 2001. “When we launched HTUF there wasn’t a hybrid truck on the road,” said Calstart president and CEO John Boesel. “Now there are about 2,500,” he says — and HTUF has been the growth engine. Calstart senior VP Bill Van Amburg, U.S. Army TARDEC- Serious players sense opportunity in the hybrid National Automotive Center director Paul Skalny, and truck sector, and 35 companies came to Dearborn HTUF program director Richard Parish to show their wares at HTUF 2010. Want More? WTS-GTS in Indianapolis in March If you liked HTUF, you’ll really like next year’s National Truck Equipment Association Work Truck Show and 47th Annual NTEA Convention, being held March 7-10 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. The 2011 Work Truck Show will be immediately preceded by the Calstart- Published Online at and NTEA-hosted Green Truck Summit, March 7-8. NTEA last year formed GTA, the Green Truck Association, as a new www.showtimesdaily.com affiliate division. Doyle Sumrall, who is here at HTUF 2010, is GTA’s managing director. See you in Indiana? HTUF2010 d1&2p2:Layout 1 9/23/10 10:21 PM Page 1 ™ online at ShowTimesDaily.com With no fewer than 35 advanced vehicles, today’s HTUF 2010 ride-and-drive HTUF 2010 will be the largest in the ten-year history of the event, preceded by a gala convoy that arrives at the Hyatt around 8:30. Bring your driving gloves! Johnson Controls Kollmorgen Drive Full Electric commercial fleet van 30kW low voltage power generation Ride Rexroth-Bosch Group American LaFrance Condor 880S & refuse truck w/Bosch Hydrostatic ALTe Crane Carrier Company Regenerative Braking parallel Mule #0 F150 crew cab prototype LET 2 Eaton parallel-hybrid hydraulic hybrid system REEP drive, for range-extended hydraulic drive electric powertrain Siemens Industries Daimler Trucks hybrid drive bus with Elfa components Altec Freightliner M2 106 hybrid 250 HP JEMS 300 bucket truck Eaton parallel electric hybrid system Lightning Hybrids Chevrolet 2500 Altec Daimler Trucks w/Lightning Hybrids’ HyPER Assist AT37-G aerial device mounted on a Freightliner M2 106 Hybrid 325 HP parallel hydraulic system true Ford F-550 PHEV supplied by EPRI Eaton parallel electric hybrid system and Eaton. 10 miles of electric drive. Daimler Trucks Smith Electric Vehicle Freightliner M2 106 hybrid 240 HP Azure Dynamics Newton all electric delivery truck Azure’s Transit Connect Eaton parallel electric hybrid system Azure Dynamics Daimler Trucks TARDEC/NAC Azure’s Balance Shuttle Bus Freightliner M2 106 hybrid 200 HP CERV 33 (Clandestine Extended Range (gasoline-electric parallel hybrid) Vehicle) (display and convoy only) Eaton parallel electric hybrid system Navistar DuraStar hybrid Azure Dynamics Delphi Corporation TARDEC/NAC Azure’s Balance step van Future Tactical Maneuver Sustain- SOFC (solid oxide fuel cell) mounted Navistar (gasoline-electric parallel hybrid) on a Peterbilt truck (Display only) ment Vehicle (FTTS-MSV) eStar all electric parcel delivery unit Terex Eaton Odyne Class 7 utility line truck with a Terex TERC - 2010 Peterbilt Eaton 75kW plug-in parallel hybrid TL55M material handling aerial device full EV capable hybrid system underground utility vehicle Eaton Oshkosh Hydraulic Launch Assist (HLA) MTVR cargo/troop transport hydraulic hybrid with HLA with new Bright Automotive with Oshkosh ProPulse series Brake Blend Volkswagen Transporter PHEV hybrid electric drive system Coca-Cola Enterprises EMP — Engineered hybrid electric 33,000 GVWR Machine Products Terex delivery truck New Flyer Bus w/Allison EV40 hybrid Class 5 Utility Trouble Truck with drive system (Display only) a Terex LT38P aerial device Coca-Cola Enterprises hybrid electric 55,000 GVWR US Hybrid delivery truck Allianz Electric Hybrid Street Sweeper Parker Hannifin 2010 Autocar ACX - E3 RunWise with 33 yd Labrie Automizer side loader Parker Hannifin Freightliner Columbia series hybrid by Artisan and Parker online at ShowTimesDaily.com • Convention & Tradeshow News September 30, 2010 3 online at ShowTimesDaily.com HTUF 2010 Hybrid Trucks Are a Commercial Reality Dear HTUF Attendees: GM staged what was essentially an trust behind advancing the industry auto show to showcase offerings that in 2010. Ten years ago when the Army and buyers had no other way of seeing End-users will be delighted by the CALSTART founded HTUF, few in one place. wide range of vehicle applications. people foresaw what is before us this Today, we are pleased to present The lineup includes a shuttle bus, week — hybrid vehicles and tech- our modern day Motorama in the refuse truck, full-sized bus, delivery nologies with sales numbering form of our Ride-and-Drive. There truck, street sweeper, bucket truck, 2000-plus trucks and growing. Mil- are 35 advanced, production parcel delivery unit, and a plug-in itary bases this year will start de- medium- and heavy duty vehicles hybrid electric vehicle. Among the ploying commercial hybrids for their here that you can test drive today. 35 vehicles is the TARDEC/NAC non-tactical uses. And, a new Perhaps the key takeaways from this Future Tactical Manuever Sustain- incentive program spurred sales of robust event are: ment Vehicle, Azure’s Transit Con- more than 650 new trucks this year • Every major truck maker has nect, a Coca-Cola Enterprises’s alone. Thanks to the efforts of many a hybrid in production or pre- delivery truck, and Odyne’s under- Bill Van Amburg who are here this week — fleet, production, ground utility vehicle. manufacturer, supplier, military, • These vehicles are available for And for the truck and tech geeks start systems and advanced compo- government — in partnership, we’ve purchase today, and among us, you must catch the con- nents; high-efficiency drivelines and built the unforeseen. • You have purchasing options voy! The festivities kick off at 8:30 low carbon fuels; and greater hybrid Part of how we’ve done that is The innovators who are present- a.m. with a nearly mile-long convoy expansion into military service. to show fleet users what’s real, and ing their products or showcasing of advanced vehicles that begins at At HTUF we are shaping that let them touch, feel and drive it. their fleets include industry leaders Fairlane Town Center and ends at change. Indeed, American philoso- It’s an offshoot of what Alfred P. ALTe, Azure, Bright Automotive, the Hyatt Regency North Lot 5. If pher, Eric Hoffer, observed “In Sloan of General Motors called the Coca-Cola Enterprises, Crane clean, breakthrough vehicles are times of change, the learner will in- “Motorama.” From 1949 to 1961, Carrier Company, Daimler Trucks, shiver inducing for you, then don’t herit the earth while the learned are Delphi Corporation, Dynamics, miss the grand entrance of the beautifully equipped for a world that Eaton, EMP, Johnson Controls, vehicles that are driving change. no longer exists.” May our “active Lightning Hybrids, Kollmorgen, This is all tangible evidence that learning” continue today and for the Navistar, Odyne, Oshkosh Corpo- we are in a transitional time. Change next 10 years! ration, Parker Hannifin, Rexroth- is a process and our first ten years Bosch Group, Siemens In dustries, successfully moved the needle. Sincerely, Publisher Smith Electric Vehicle, TARDEC/ When HTUF 2010 concludes, our Bill VanAmburg Kirk Fetzer 415-385-0987 NAC, Terex and U.S. Hybrid. This work begins on plug-ins and series Senior Vice President, [email protected] is a who’s who of the dynamic brain- hydraulic; all electric drive; stop- CALSTART Editor Rich Piellisch 415-305-9050 [email protected] Writer & Photographer John Morris Calstart Forms Telcom Group Production Designer Calstart this month announced the official launch gregate volume of usage within these vehicles Maureen Spuhler of a new working group to advance clean vehicle equates to a potential for substantial fuel savings,” ShowTimes at HTUF 2010 Media Room development in the telecommunications industry: Calstart says, noting that the new group will focus the HTUF Telecommunications on cleaner and more fuel effi- News Coverage by Fleets & Fuels Working Group, with AT&T and cient options for Class 2-4 Verizon the founding members medium-duty vehicles. and co-chairs. “With the objective of www.fleetsandfuels.com Calstart has set aggressive increasing clean truck tech - goals for advancing clean nology options for the entire Printed by: Progressive Printing technology. industry, this cooperative Tele- ShowTimes is published live at HTUF 2010 Three of the five largest motor com Working Group is one of by Convention & Tradeshow News.