Medium Truck Update: Engines Will Change Little to Meet EPA Rule
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“It has been a systems approach from the beginning,” Mark Stasell, vice president of engineering and product development for International Truck and Engine Corp.’s Engine Group, said of the technologies that will be used to meet 2007 emission levels.
ow-emission medium-truck diesel engines due in January will not be much different from today’s models. Most will have the same components, the same power ratings and the same maintenance schedules as they do now, medium-duty engine manufacturers told Transport Topics.
But that is not to say things will be the same.
Beginning next year, the engines will be just one part of a complex, interdependent emission-control system that includes a new ex-haust filtration system, new engine- and emission-controlling software, new fuel and a new oil formula.
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