The new 24-volt configuration helps fleets reduce engine idling while maintaining sleeper cab comfort and protecting starter batteries.

Alternators like this one will probably disappear from the front of engines, replaced by a starter generator built into the transmission. Photo: Jim Park Within a decade’s time we will probably have ...

In 1968, the godfather of New Journalism, Tom Wolfe, wrote a book called The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test that we just had to borrow its title and make our own for this story. But that's where Wolfe's ...

Most modern diesel engines already feature an electric start system. However, older engines often required manual starting methods such as hand cranks, kick-starts, or pull-starts, which could be ...

Collins Aerospace has begun initial tests of the integrated electric elements - including a pair of 1MW-class motors - that ...