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Unusually Green
The Terex® HyPower™ Team was in beautiful Boise in the first week of February for a great event with the Treasure Valley Clean Cities Coalition. We were lucky enough to have perfect weather for a large group of coalition members, environmentalists and customers.
Award Winning Design. Continuous Improvement.
As usual our NTEA Green Truck Award winning HyPower worked flawlessly. We spent most of our time talking about the improvements that are constantly being made to our system. We will have more information on all those advances later.
A special thanks to Beth Baird with the TVCC for the hard work that she put into preparation for us.
The Terex® HyPower™ Team has put together a video showing the difference between a traditional Utilities vehicle and our HyPower™. Our system uses a state of the art power management system to draw stored energy from the HyPower’s batteries allowing us to operate almost silently while on the job site.
Traditional units work using the diesel engine of the vehicle to power job site operations. This means that the engine runs at ‘high idle’ burning upt to 1,200 gallons of fuel yearly, emitting pollutants and making a great deal of noise.
The HyPower System saves the fuel, increases efficiency of the crews and virtually eliminates the noise. Don’t take our word for it, watch the video.
The California Employment Training Panel has approved Terex for a training contract worth$158,400 to reimburse us for the training of our California Team Members in Hybrid Technologies. We are excited to be a part of this program which is helping California create and retain Green Jobs. The funding for this program comes from Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program under AB 118.
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The Terex® HyPower™ Team would like to thank Rosa Hernandez and Myra Cordova of the ETP Sacramento Regional Office for all of their help. This takes us one step closer to making the Terex HyPower PHEV the standard Utilities Service Truck in the United States.
Terex receives a grant from the California Energy Commission for HyPower™
Written by david.hanks@terex.com under Customers, Environment, Legislative
Tags: Bucket Truck, California, Electronic Power Take Off, EPTO, Green Collar Jobs, Green Fleet, Hybrid, hybrid bucket truck, hybrid digger, Hybrid Utility Truck, PHEV, Retrofit, Terex HyPower
The California Energy Commission (CEC) announced this week that is has approved nearly $500,000 in funds for the Terex® HyPower™ Hybrid Project. The project, scheduled to be completed in January 2012, will retrofit 12 medium- and heavy-duty utility service vehicles with the Terex® HyPower™ Hybrid System. The HyPower™ zero-emissions technology can significantly reduce vehicle fuel consumption, lower carbon dioxide emissions and minimize noise pollution when installed on utility service vehicles.
This week South Dakota Representative Stephanie Herseth Sandlin stopped by to meet with the Terex® team in Watertown, South Dakota. She was eager to hear about a peice of South Dakota innovation – the Terex® HyPower™ Hybrid system.
Stephenie toured the manufacturing facility talking to the hard working Dakotans who manufacture the HyPower™. She finished the visit by taking one of the hybrid aerial devices up for a birdseye view of Watertown and the eastern South Dakota prairie.
Joe Caywood,Marketing Manager for Terex Utilities, commented “We appreciate the support from Representative Herseth Sandlin taking time out of her busy schedule to meet with us and her specific interest in the benefits of the HyPower system making a significant impact with reduced fuel consumption and emissions as well as providing quiet boom operation for utility crews”.
Terex® HyPower™ at the Heavy Duty Hybrid Workshop in Louisville, KY
Written by david.hanks@terex.com under Customers, Environment
Tags: Bucket Truck, Clean Cities, Green Fleet, Hybrid, hybrid bucket truck, hybrid digger, Hybrid Utility Truck, Kentucky Clean Cities Coalition, Louisville, PHEV, Retrofit, TARC, Terex HyPower, Utility Truck
The Kentucky Clean Fuels Coalition held a Workshop on Heavy Duty Hybrids this week and the Terex® HyPower™ was the star of the event. KCFC is a member of Clean Cities and they do a fantastic job of matching fuel saving projects to government funding. In 2009 the KCFC brought $12.9 million in stimulus funds to a program that will purchase more than 210 diesel hybrid electric school buses.
The meeting took place beside the new Transit Authority of River City, Maintenance Annex and Training Facility which is registered to become a LEED Gold Facility. TARC partnered with Luckett & Farley, a Louisville based architectural Leader in Sustainable Design, to build this amazing facility which features a Green Roof, solar panels and a Bioswale.
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Special thanks to Melissa Howell, KCFC Executive Director, and Geoffrey Hobin, TARC Special Programs Manager.
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South Dakota Lieutenant Governor Dennis Daugaard recently stopped by to meet with Terex in Watertown, South Dakota. The Lt Governor took time to check out the Terex® HyPower™ Hybrid Utilities Service truck.
During his walk around of the vehicle he slipped on a harness and took the aerial device for a birds-eye view of the Terex facility. The PTO hybrid system was installed on a new TL55 aerial device. Dennis commented that the Terex® HyPower™ system is an impressive innovation, and will change the worksite atmosphere for the better by reducing fuel consumption, worksite noise pollution and emissions.
You can follow Lt. Governer Daugaard on Facebook at http://facebook.com/dennisdaugaard
How can we improve the fuel efficiency of Medium and Heavy Utility Service Vehicles? Terex® HyPower™
Written by david.hanks@terex.com under Customers, Environment, Legislative
Tags: Bucket Truck, Fuel Efficiency, Green Fleet, Heavy Hybrid, Hybrid, hybrid bucket truck, hybrid digger, Hybrid Utility Truck, PHEV, Retrofit, Terex HyPower, Utility Truck
Terex® HyPower™ PHEV
Enhance our energy security-
.Each HyPower™ System can save up to 1,200 gallons of fuel per year. There are thousands of vehicles across the world that can be retrofitted with HyPower™systems.
Improve our environment-
By reducing diesel fuel use each HyPower™can prevent 10 Tons of Air Pollution yearly. Fleets can be quickly retrofitted to produce a real and lasting improvements.
Create high-quality jobs-
The HyPower™system is manufactured in South Dakota and can be retrofitted locally in more than 13 locations across the US.
Great Teams
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We at Terex® are lucky to have great people working for us around the world. Some of us work in offices and some of us work with our hands. The Team Members shown below service and retrofit equipment in White House, TN. Teams of hard working men and women like this are ready to upgrade existing Terex® Utilities vehicles to cutting edge PHEV’s with the HyPower™ Hybrid System.
Great Products
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Terex® Utilities has been building high quality, high value products since 1945. With the HyPower™ Hybrid System we are leading the way with new, green technologies for our customers and our communities.
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