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Solar power can reduce idling, protect batteries
One of the quickest ways to reduce a truck’s operating costs is to get its energy for free. Of course, no one’s giving away diesel fuel, but harnessing free sunlight is one way to conserve energy while upgrading your battery system.
November 29, 2019
Business
New Xantrex solar charging options
The addition of solar solutions adds to Xantrex’s other products, including well-known power inverters for heavy-duty trucks, inverter/chargers, battery chargers, backup power and lithium ion batteries.
July 1, 2019
Business
Report: Spec’ing solar panels a viable option for truck/trailer battery-charge needs
Solar panels utilized in trucking applications help fleets and owner-ops objectively evaluate the benefits and challenges of solar panels. More on Overdrive.
June 28, 2018
Business
eNow to supply solar panels to IdleAir locations through new partnership
IdleAir, which supplies power to trucks without idling or running an APU, will now be able to use eNow’s solar panels to help provide the power instead of traditional electricity.
December 14, 2016
Business
eNow cab/trailer roof solar-charge system for battery-based APUs and more
Jeff Flath of eNow says the company’s five years’ worth of design and testing work with partners among the larger fleets has proven out the design of their system, ready to market to owner-operators with auxiliary battery-based anti-idling systems.
July 28, 2016
Overdrive Extra
Perfecting the pairing: Designing the truck-trailer combo
The second-generation trailer in Kevin Rutherford’s Signature Series combo unit will couple to a single-drive-axle tractor and balance weight with payload possibilities, electrical efficiency and more.
November 18, 2013
Channel 19
One owner-operator’s top 5 add-ons showcased at GATS
Owner-operator Marc Springer spent part of his time at the Great American Trucking Show scoping these various add-ons, from charge-assist solar panels to cargo devices, he thought could help his bottom line.
August 26, 2013
Overdrive Extra
Work Truck Show wrap-up
Rounding up commercial van market, hybrid truck, solar panel, natural gas powertrain and other news from the NTEA show in Indianapolis, which ended March 8.
March 10, 2013
Channel 19
Crossville’s Eco Truck Stop
This truckstop boasts a bevy of Shorepower Technologies dockstations, AireDock units and, among other features, solar panels powering the store atop its fuel islands.
September 15, 2012
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