It’s a hard road to a clean energy future. We’ll need a lot of great ideas, like the HyPower™ system, to get there.
Right now there are whole classes of technologies that are excluded from Federal tax credits or rebates. Any vehicle technology which was not proven in 2005 is excluded. This means that working trucks, like ours, have no economical choice except to pollute.
In our business we don’t drive a lot of miles. Our trucks sit while workers service power lines. In normal vehicles, when it’s working the engine is running. In a year most of these utility trucks use more than a thousand gallons of fuel – while sitting still.
One Thousand Gallons
What does a thousand gallons of wasted fuel mean? It means more than 10 tons of pollution. This is pollution we don’t have to produce. And it’s not only utilities service trucks that work this way.
Imagine all of the construction equipment, garbage trucks and farm equipment that we use. These machines work instead of move. Hybrids for this work should be designed differently than Hybrid cars. That’s what the Terex® HyPower™ system is. A better solution for a different problem.
Did you know?
The average utility truck consumes 4.8 gallons of fuel WHILE STANDING STILL – every day?
That’s because the engine must idle to power the hydraulic system of the truck which operates the boom and other accessories. You’ve probably noticed the noise and the smell created by these trucks as they work in your neighborhood.
The Terex® HyPower™ system can switch off all of that waste and pollution
By using plug-in electric hybrid technology to operate the boom and accessories, HyPower dramatically reduces fuel consumption, greenhouse gas and carbon emissions, and worksite noise pollution.
HyPower™ systems can make a huge impact on our environment
Each HyPower™ system equipped utility truck
will have the equivalent positive impact
of about nine hybrid passenger cars
– saving 1,205 gallons of fuel per year
(compared to similar conventional vehicles).
HyPower™ system can be reused or retrofitted onto existing trucks.
We easily fit our product onto already existing vehicles, at a fraction of the cost of a new vehicle. HyPower™ systems have been designed to outlast their first vehicle so they can be reused on new chassis.
Designed and manufactured in the Great Plains.
Terex® HyPower™ is manufactured in South Dakota and the team of researchers who imagined it work there too. We also have a network of locations across the United States where HyPower™ can be regionally retrofitted and serviced.
The HyPower™ system sounds great! Why isn’t everyone using it?
The entire class of technologies that HyPower™ system is a part of does not get the same incentives as other Hybrids. The current law denies funding to any Hybrid that does not help move the vehicle, regardless of how much fuel they save.
How can I help make a difference?
- Tell your law makers(US Senators, US Representatives, State Representatives) you support fair incentives to drive the adoption of HyPower.
- Sign our electronic petition.
- Ask your local utility to adopt HyPower so they can save fuel and reduce pollution.
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