Readers Down Under should keep their eyes peeled for a host of hybrid trucks that will soon be making their way to Australia after Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation agreed to deliver 25 vehicles to the country by the end of March.
In what is the company’s largest delivery of hybrid trucks outside Japan, Star Track Express, an express freight company with headquarters in Gordon near Sydney, will soon boast the vehicles among its fleet as it bids to drive down emissions and fuel consumption.
The first order for Fuso Hybrid trucks from a customer outside Japan came in October last year and 10 Fuso Canter Eco Hybrid Trucks have since been delivered to the Electricity Supply Board, the biggest electrical utility in Ireland.
It has been a fast moving sector for the company, which is based in Kawasaki, Japan and is one of Asia’s leading commercial vehicle manufacturers, 85 per cent owned by Daimler. It only launched the Fuso Canter Eco Hybrid in July 2006 and has since sold more than 800 of the vehicles in Japan.
