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ket is that the break even cost point on a system that achieves a 25% reduction in fuel costs is typically in the range of US$8000-12,000, though in some mar- kets it can be as high as US$25,000. Port operators may be prepared pay a premium for a “green” solution, but at this point Cargotec believes the price of electric hybrid options is still too high.
Other choices
Also coming from Capacity later this year is a gasoline V10 engine option. Parsons says the V10 “offers a very attractive price point in a terminal tractor, lower fuel costs per gallon, easy packaging into vehicle, less maintenance, and it eliminates some of the variables that terminal tractors us- ers wrestle with today; diesel particulate filters, selective catalyst reduction, urea in- jection, etc.” The company is also expanding its
heavy duty on-highway options to in- clude a Cummins SCR (selective cata- lytic reduction) engine and the Navistar MaxxForce EGR (exhaust gas recirculation) engine this year. Around 40% of the tractor market in the US is for road legal units, and they are particu- larly popular with rental companies. Navistar has not been used in the ports and intermodal industry in recent history, but Parsons says Capacity has been “im- pressed in what we have seen in the en- gine thus far.” More importantly Navistar has made
a strategic decision not to use SCR. Par- sons says as well as having an attractive price point, the Navistar is comparable to the 2007 ISB engines that are very fa- miliar to its port customers on the West Coast. Finally, Capacity plans to introduce a menthol power option next year. If the choices from Capacity seem
overwhelming, Parsons says they are nec- essary because engine manufacturers have brought in new technology to meet emis- sion requirements, none of which have been designed specifically with a termi- nal tractor in mind. “It is important to remember that the
terminal tractor industry has gone through changes somewhat alone. The engine makers have not tested those prod- ucts in a terminal tractor specific appli- cation, and accumulated millions of miles (or hours in this industry) in test data. “Capacity has done some of that. We
were selected as the Beta engine test site for the Cummins ISB10. However, this industry is thousands of trucks per year, not hundreds of thousands per year. As a result, we (those OEMs in this industry) have been left, for the most part, with find- ing out much of what we know today on our own. In that light, that is really the base of the various programs and optional power sources.”
Better Driving
Earlier this year Cargotec launched a dr iver training initiative called EcoDriving, the first solution in a new “EcoService portfolio.” EcoDriving is a training syllabus designed to teach opera- tors economical driving and lifting tech- niques on Cargotec and other brand equipment. The programme is headed by Jason Smith, sales & marketing manager, contract maintenance and the initial fo- cus is rolling fleet vehicles including ter- minal tractors in port and industrial ap- plications. Smith says the focus of EcoDriving is
to work with customers to develop a driver improvement programme where performance can be measured and sus- tained over time. The practical focus of the training is on “frugal” driving tech- niques, including positioning the vehicle correctly and how to anticipate job re- quirements so as to avoid hard accelera- tion and breaking. The EcoDriving concept fits with equipment-based EcoService products soon to be launched that will monitor fuel consumption and equipment data. Where operators already have good sys- tems in place these can be used to meas- ure the results from EcoDriving training. The initiative is still in its infancy. Al-
though Cargotec has some reference cases and is about to start a pilot trial with one customer, Smith is looking for more op- erators willing to be case studies. He says he is happy to do these on a “no fee” basis. Pictured above is one of the first pro-
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duction models of the Balqon Nautilus XE20 terminal tractor at a display event at the Port of Los Angeles last month. The XE20 is now built on the Xspotter Chassis from Autocar and uses a Li-ion battery pack instead of the lead acid batteries in the first units.
Grant support
The transition to Li-ion batteries was largely funded through a US$400,000 grant from the Port of Los Angeles and has given the XE20 a longer range of (95 miles), a maximum speed of 25 mph (un- loaded) and a four-hour charge time. The battery module contains 140kW hour Li- ion large format batteries equipped with Balqon’s proprietary battery management system. In February a test unit completed
The new Balqon Nautilus XE20 terminal tractor on an Autocar chassis. Balqon is looking for partners and dealers globally
eight weeks of cold weather testing in “actual industrial applications during two eight hour shift operations at tem- peratures below 10 degF under loads exceeding 30 tons.” While Balqon has a three-year exclusive chassis supply agreement with Autocar that requires Balqon to purchase a minimum 237 chassis over three years, it is for on- road class 7 and 8 trucks and does not cover the XE terminal tractor. Balqon is looking for partners and
dealers globally and has a goal to sell over 500 vehicles (trucks and tractors) to customers “other than the AQMD or the City of Los Angeles by Decem-
ber 31, 2011.” Autocar is also selling a DOT on-road version of the Xspotter
with a 200hp Cummins ISB engine and Allison transmission. ❏
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October 5 - 7
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