Hybrid engine ready in two years.

Kevin Gomez

INTRODUCING a range of products at bauma in Munich, Volvo Construction Equipment's president and chief executive Tony Helsham announced that the company plans to offer customers machines featuring hybrid technology by 2009. Helsham used his press conference speech to outline Volvo Group's developments on a range of energy saving and environmental research. Offering the prospect of lower emissions and fuel savings of up to 50 per cent, the integrated hybrids would also have the ability to operate on bio-fuels, he said. 'While different hybrid configurations, bio-fuels ...