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Michael J. Brezonick
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Managing Editor:
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Jack Roberts
Peter Yengst
PRODUCTION
BURP TAX
Creative & Events Director:
t a time when one nation’s government is seriously considering taxing the burps and
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Group Production Manager:
Charlotte Kemp
A flatulence of cows and sheep to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (here’s looking at you,
New Zealand!), the Diesel Progress Summit held in late September proved to be an oasis of reality
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Print Production Manager - KHL Americas: and – dare I say it – sanity. At least for me.
Brenda Burbach
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You can read more about the goings on at the Summit elsewhere in this issue. Suffice it to say,
Group Design Manager: the consensus at the event seemed to be that the powertrain industry is moving at a realistic pace
Jeff Gilbert
Group Designer: toward decarbonization that should allow society to avoid the worst damage of climate change,
Jade Hudson while maintaining a reasonably modern standard of living.
Events Design Manager:
Gary Brinklow A few things stood out. Several engine manufacturers and key technology suppliers suggested
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Kate Brown that internal combustion isn’t going away anytime soon and backed it up by presenting their latest
CIRCULATION hardware. The general sentiment was expressed by Liebherr’s Dr. Ingo Wintruff, who asserted, “the
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concern is not the combustion engine, but the fuel that is burned.”
Head of Data and Audience Development: On the subject of fuels, Dr. Allen Aradi from Shell stated that decarbonization will be
James Taylor
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Audience Development Deputy Manager: Granholm’s call for “a silver buckshot rather than a silver bullet solution.”
Anna Philo
anna.philo@khl.com I’ve often wondered if people really expected the major oil companies – collectively a trillion-
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Laura Walker dollar industry – to just wave goodbye as mobility transitioned to hydrogen, electricity and
laura.walker@khl.com whatever else is yet to come. Aradi made it clear that they’d be involved in whatever drives
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Alister Williams He also noted that, for those fearing that renewable fuels will revive the “food or fuel” debate,
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Regional Managers:
Gabriele Dinsel There were other speakers who showed where and how electrification and fuel cells will make
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Overall, the takeaway from the Summit was that decarbonization will require a diversity of
petra.kaiser@khl.com solutions for the diversity of applications – transportation, off-highway, power generation, etc.
Roberta Prandi
+39 (0)0464 014 421 – that make the modern world turn. And that the manufacturers and suppliers who serve those
roberta.prandi@khl.com industries are burning through a lot of product development budgets to be prepared when the
Thomas Kavooras
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Progress is being made and it was enough to make one optimistic about the future. And perhaps
Josh Kunz it can even be a future that won’t require a burp tax.
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SHELL’S MINING
CONSORTIUM GENERAL MOTORS
Shell has established Mining
Electrification Solutions for Off- NEW GM ENERGY
Road Vehicles, a nine-member
consortium to create a new
pilot offering of electrification
ECOSYSTEM
eneral Motors
solutions for mining sites. Skeleton,
Microvast, Stäubli, Carnegie
Robotics, Heliox, Spirae, Alliance
G introduced Ultium
Home and Ultium
Automation, Worley and Shell have Commercial, which in
come together to create an end-to- combination with the

end and interoperable electrification
system to reduce emissions
without compromising on efficiency
or safety, while aiming to be cost
competitive versus diesel-powered
operations.
The pilot offer will combine
a high-powered battery system
with ultrafast charging and a
standardized microgrid energy
system where the required
solution can be complemented with
renewable electricity generation
onsite or through the grid.
By 2030, Shell said a battery-
electric haulage truck will lower
total cost of ownership (TCO),
involve 20% lower maintenance
costs, and have 40% lower fuel
costs than diesel trucks.
“It is increasingly clear that no
one, single organization can solve
decarbonization alone,” said Grischa
Sauerberg, vice president, Sectoral
Decarbonization & Innovation at
Shell. “The need for a collaborative
effort is particularly evident within
... industries like mining, where
the challenges are great but the
opportunities are even greater.”
ILLUSTRATION: GM
existing Ultium Charge 360,
will create an ecosystem of
energy management products
and services that will be
housed under a new business
unit called GM Energy.
GM Energy’s connected
product and service offerings electrical power grid has assets. Customers will be
will be designed to offer never been more important,” able to simply and efficiently
energy management for said Travis Hester, vice manage their energy
home, commercial and president of GM EV Growth consumption through GM’s
electric vehicle (EV) Operations. “GM Energy energy software applications.
customers, with solutions has the opportunity to help GM said it has already
ranging from bi-directional deliver sustainable energy enrolled EV customers in
charging, vehicle-to-home products and services that managed charging programs
(V2H) and vehicle-to-grid can help mitigate the effect through the Energy Services
(V2G) applications, to of power outages and provide Cloud, with multiple utilities
stationary storage, software, customers with resilient across four U.S. states.
cloud management tools, and cost-effective energy Several large companies in
microgrid solutions, hydrogen management.” the U.S. have agreed to work
fuel cells and more. with GM Energy, said the
GM Energy’s services will CENTRAL CLOUD company, to provide energy
also enable the sale of energy The central interface for solutions to customers and
from EV and stationary GM Energy’s solutions will receive products or service.
storage batteries back to be GM’s Energy Services Among them is an
utilities during peak times to Cloud, which will house data agreement with SunPower,
unlock value for customers and energy management a solar technology and
and increasing resiliency for tools, connecting customers energy services provider. The
the electrical grid. seamlessly with residential, companies plan to develop
“The reliability of the U.S. fleet and commercial energy and offer a home energy

BUSINESS NOTES
KOHLER-SDMO, the French-based
generator manufacturer acquired by
Kohler in 2005, has completed its
planned brand transition, officially
becoming Kohler.
Founded in 1966 in Brest, France,
SDMO became Kohler-SDMO in 2016
to reflect its part in the global Kohler
network. With the final alignment to
the Kohler brand, the company said
it can accelerate its development in
Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Kohler Power Systems’ EMEA
operations will continue to be based
out of France where the Brest
plant recently received $6 million of
investment to expand production, test
and storage facilities.
BRIGGS & STRATTON announced a
partnership with Hydraulic Controls
Inc., a fluid power distributor in the
Pacific Southwest, which will now be
able to utilize Vanguard lithium-ion
battery solutions in its power units.
Hydraulic Controls has 13
employee-owned branches located
throughout California, Utah, Arizona
and Colorado. Each facility keeps an
inventory suited to the local market,
whether it is harvesting equipment
for California agriculture, oil drilling

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