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Mr. Dennehy has been V.P. of Marketing and Communications with Espar for 9 years. He has played an integral part in working with several levels of government agencies in both the U.S. and Canada to bring awareness to the challenges of idling, anti-idling technologies and the reduction of green house gases. Mr. Dennehy will entertain questions on anti-idling technologies, state regulations and state/province initiatives regarding rebates/incentives and also idling laws and fines within each state.

Europe

February 21, 2006 @ 7:11 pm


Q.		I’ve been looking into idling and emissions reduction technologies and have found that European drivers don’t idle. I also found out they have a 24V system, unlike the 12V in the US. Does this partly explain why they don’t idle? ie is there much less risk of a dead battery when they use heating/power etc Thanks for your help

European's don't idle. Over 80% of the trucks in europe have auxiliary fuel fired heating systems, the same goes for automobiles. The reason is twofold but it has nothing to do with 24 volt systems. European's are so much more aware of their environment than we are in N.A. and secondly, they pay as much as 3- 4 times more for fuel than we do, hence not wanting to waste it idling.