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• Scania is working on the "truck engine of the futur turing what its head of engine development, Johansson, describes as a homogeneous charge co sion ignition (HCCI) system. This is said to have the p to replace the conventional diesel engine while offerir low emissions along the way.

Johansson says: "The diesel engine will remain tt power unit for many years to come? But he confln Scania is already running experimental single-cyline sions of the HCCI engine, which he describes as "ant of unit mixing the diesel and Otto cycle engine". Th engine creates a very low level of NOx and particuk with a higher level of hydrocarbons, although Jotpoints out that this can be handled by a catalytic col Until the FICCI engine goes into production Scania tinue to develop a modular diesel engine platform heavy truck range with a uniform "optimised" con' chamber used in all its diesel engines.

Speaking at the recent Frankfurt show, Jot reported that Scania will be looking at exhaust gas re tion and particulate fitters in order to meet the Euro. sion standard set for 2005. "Turbo-compounding is useful technology," he added.

MU Frankfurt, Scania also unveiled an in-cab trip cc based on a hand-held Cassiopea palm-top unit. The be sold as an accessory with all 4-Series electronic It will be able to collate trip data including vehicle uti fuel consumption and driver performance.

The Windows-based system will be compatible w or laptop computer for downloading.

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