Navistar Says Final 2010 Engine Testing on Track
Navistar International Corp. said Monday that it is on track with final testing of its exhaust gas recirculation MaxxForce engines to meet 2010 emissions standards.
The company said it “will be prepared for a successful engine launch in the months ahead.”
“We are on track with our strategy of 2010 emissions compliance through the use of our EGR-only solution and are ahead of schedule in some cases,” said Jack Allen, president of Navistar’s North American truck group.
Navistar said it has “completed rigorous testing and analysis in both its engine labs and field test units during the last 18 months,” including cold-weather testing in northern Minnesota earlier this year.
Final validation testing at high altitude and high temperature is being conducted in Nevada and in mountainous regions of Colorado, and the company’s engineers will travel to desert-like conditions in Arizona and Nevada to complete hot-weather testing.
Navistar is the only original equipment manufacturer that decided to meet the 2010 federal mandate for drastically lower nitrogen oxide emissions by using only EGR — updating a technology in use since 2004.
All other truck makers will introduce selective catalytic reduction, a system used in Europe and Japan that uses a catalytic converter in the exhaust system to cut NOx.
