Detroit Diesel Cites BlueTec Testing Milestone

Detroit Diesel Corp. announced that its BlueTec emissions technology has completed 25 million miles of testing ahead of schedule. By its rollout on Jan. 1, the company said the system will have surpassed 28 million miles of testing. The announcement was made during a panel discussion at the Great America Truck Show in Dallas.

 

Detroit Diesel's BlueTec emissions technology - a North American version of the Daimler technology developed in Europe - represents the company's latest innovation in clean diesel engine technology to be fully-developed and commercialized. "We are pleased to have taken full advantage of our early choice of SCR as the best technology for our customers for 2010,” said David Siler, director of marketing, Detroit Diesel. “The 2010 BlueTec technology will be one of most extensively tested emissions technology systems in our company's history, and having this decade of experience has allowed Detroit Diesel and Daimler Trucks North America to not only have an extended period of time for system design and performance refinement but also to gain significant testing and validation experience.

 

"The early commitment to the technology allowed us to finalize our production-intent designs early and to conclusively demonstrate the performance, durability, and effectiveness of our BlueTec technology on production designs over the extended life-cycle demands of our customers."

 

BlueTec will be used on Detroit Diesel’s recently introduced DD15, DD13 and DD16 big bore diesel engines. Since adapting the technology in early 2005, Daimler Trucks has delivered more than 200,000 trucks and buses around the world utilizing BlueTec.