Mini-TRUCKER distinguishes environmentally friendly vehicles
The Munich magazines mini-TRUCKER and truck Europe characterised by environmentally friendly commercial vehicles with the label "green truck" and "Green Van". Euro 6 was the winner in the class of heavy semitrailer trucks this year Scania R480. The "green truck 2012" with the sharpest emission class Euro 6 reached 5851 environmental points and placed it in the environmental ranking clearly before the MAN TGX 18.440 efficient line (5588 environmental points) and the third Volvo FM410 (5311 points).
The Fiat Ducato Multijet 150 in the version L3H2 clinched this year the title of "Green Van 2012". The Euro 5 vans from Italy sat down with 5400 environmental points to the top in the class of vans and small trucks up to 7 tonnes. Second place of the Multijet 115 L3H2 5365 environmental points landed on a Fiat Ducato environmental ranking extremely thin behind also. # 3, The VW crafter BlueMotion (4872 environmental points) landed with greater distance.
The reduction and hence the carbon dioxide emissions of vehicles are essential for the assessment of the environmental performance primarily. Also the euro emissions class, as well as factors such as the maximum payload or the loading volume are taken into account, at the vans also the availability of Spritsparfunktionalitaten such as start stop. "The inclusion of these components is very important to assess the environmental performance in conjunction with the efficiency of the vehicle practical", Birgit Bauer (fleet of transport) and John Reichel (mini-TRUCKER) constitute the methodology of the ranking. Respect for the environment must be considered always in conjunction with sound.
Basis for economic and environmental assessments are the extensive vehicle testing of mini-TRUCKER and transport intelligence "Green Truck" and "Green Van". Every year up to 50 vehicles of all classes run by the standardized professional testing and Super test round of Munich Verlag Heinrich Vogel (editor of mini-TRUCKER and transport intelligence). In the vehicle test, also the fuel economy taking into account the driving speeds, weather conditions and other factors is determined based on standardized procedures at the truck as only industry publications with the help of a reference-truck.
