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COMMENT: Hybrid trailer highlights flaws in Europe’s GHG control plans

BY ALAN BUNTING. Giving semi-trailers a source of motive power reduces the energy demand on the engine of the tractor unit, to the obvious benefit of fuel consumption

Hybrid semi-trailer: words that many might take as a misprint or an April fool joke. But Strasbourg-based Adgero’s application of its KERS (kinetic energy recovery system) development, in collaboration with Estonian ultracapacitor (or supercapacitor) maker Skeleton Technologies, is worthy of serious scrutiny.

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