Navistar's SuperTruck Meet BorgWarner's Super Electrics

Achieve 50 percent improvement over benchmark—that was the Department of Energy’s (DOE) challenge, in the form of the SuperTruck Initiative. Navistar decided to meet the challenge and asked us to join the effort. The result is an innovation that’s sure to influence future product solutions. After 2½ years of dedicated effort, Navistar’s SuperTruck demonstration vehicle, CatalIST, achieved fuel efficiency of 13 miles per gallon and demonstrated 50.3 percent Brake Thermal Efficiency (BTE) and a path towards 55 percent BTE. This was a freight efficiency improvement of 104 percent—more than double the 50 percent goal set by the DOE for its SuperTruck program. -- http://delcoremy.com -- The main metric of the SuperTruck program is to improve freight efficiency by 50 percent. What the freight efficiency is, is basically the amount of freight you can carry times the miles per gallon that this vehicle gets. Anytime you can improve the efficiency of the vehicle, the miles per gallon of fuel usage goes up. So one of the technologies we leveraged in an effort to increase the efficiency of a vehicle like this is what we call kinetic energy recovery systems. One of those systems is an electric energy recovery system that BorgWarner supplied in the form of a 48 volt motor generator. -- http://delcoremy.com -- Delco Remy starters and alternators from BorgWarner are the preferred choice for medium and heavy-duty truck, bus and off-highway applications worldwide. Learn more at http://delcoremy.com. Delco Remy is a registered trademark of General Motors Corporation, licensed to BorgWarner PDS (Anderson) L.L.C. --- http://delcoremy.com