CTEK Reminds Drivers Vehicle Battery Protection is Important Year-round

Car maintenance is often neglected after winter, but vehicle battery provider CTEK reminds drivers to protect their batteries throughout the year to prevent summertime battery replacements or breakdowns. Most vehicle testing organizations report that many attended calls are battery related, and can be avoided by preventative battery-checking.

 

Federal Agency Requests Public Input on Vehicle Safety Evaluations

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is inviting public input concerning vehicle safety, and new rules to protect pedestrians and children, to improve its New Car Assessment Program. NHTSA conducts crash tests in addition to rollover assessments under the program that was established in 1978. The agency then organizes information for consumers concerning about the relative […]

 

10 Ways for Car and Truck Fleets to Reduce Fuel Consumption

Gasoline and diesel prices may be less volatile today than five years ago, but they account for enough of the annual fleet cost to prioritize reduction in fuel consumption. Here are 10 tips for fleet managers to reduce fuel consumption that apply to passenger cars and commercial vehicles. Thanks to GPS Insight for sending out a summary and link to this article published in Commercial Carrier Journal…..

 

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles Are Getting Closer than You Might Think

For anyone who’s been following hydrogen fuel cell vehicles for the past 10 years or so, it’s easy to get cynical about the possibility that they’ll ever be viable, affordable vehicles for fleets to consider. Things seem to be changing, and here are a few interesting factoids on this topic, such as several major OEMs who are going this route and getting close to building these vehicles at production volume….

 

Are You Living and Working in the Most Traffic Congested Metro Areas?

For those living in the most traffic congested cities in the US, lost time due to congestion took a whole working week – or vacation time – out of your schedule. The national average was 38 hours lost and the number went up to 42 hours behind the wheel in the top traffic metro areas. Traffic information and services provider Inrix released its 2012 Traffic Scorecard. Researchers at Texas A&M Transportation had similar findings in its recently issued Urban Mobility report….