“With an optional shore power adapter, Aspen APUs can be operated using 115V shore power when the truck is parked, eliminating the need to run the APU engine for added fuel savings.” Like any ...

Established maintenance intervals aside, to keep an APU running, you have to consider where it lives - hanging on a truck frame. You won't find a more hostile environment anywhere, with constant ...

The Willis APU reduces idling by providing auxiliary power as soon as the truck is parked, and it delivers more heating and cooling capacity. Its three-cylinder, 18-hp Kubota engine makes it quiet ...

“We’ve used diesel APUs, but the maintenance costs were too high,” said Mark Stahl, maintenance director at Central Trucking. “We also tried a different brand of electric APU, but the ...

Turning the truck engine off and using an APU to power heating, air conditioning, radios and other devices consumes about one-fifth of a gallon of diesel per hour and lowers emissions nearly to zero.

The new Battle Born All-Electric APU offers a comprehensive solution to the trucking industry by enabling compliance with increasing anti-idling regulations while potentially saving billions of ...

In an ongoing effort to help alleviate fuel consumption, Navistar has released its Fleetrite Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) for Class 8 trucks and fleets. Class 8 trucks use a lot of fuel while idling ...

Dragonfly Energy is taking its lithium battery auxiliary power unit (APU) concept to the heavy-duty trucking market, after finding success in the RV and marine segments. Wade Seaburg, the company’s ...

The Fleetrite APU can save customers up to US$8,500 per truck, the company says. “A Class 8 truck burns a little more than a gallon of diesel fuel per hour idling, and a long-haul sleeper idles around ...

Sandefur says that with a Fleetrite APU, truck owners can reduce fuel usage to only 0.3 gallons of fuel per hour while idling, or up to 80 percent less than normal idle, saving fleets and owner ...

Track Your Truck positioned a guide that can inform drivers ... recent expansion of the MAP-21 bill dealing with state-by-state APU regulations, this may be confusing to drivers crossing state ...

Sandefur says that with a Fleetrite APU, truck owners can reduce fuel usage to only 0.3 gallons of fuel per hour while idling, or up to 80 percent less than normal idle, saving fleets and owner ...