The document summarizes key points from a presentation on designing future on-road and off-road tractors. It discusses the various demands placed on fleet customers and original equipment manufacturers. It also highlights several emerging technologies like batteries, solar charging, supercapacitors, and wearable computers that could impact tractor design by 2025. The future tractor-trailer rig will look similar externally but have significant internal changes driven by new technologies.

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Designing
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Tractors
Paul Menig, CEO!
Tech-I-M!
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COMMERCIAL VEHICLE ENGINEERING CONGRESS
ON-HIGHWAY • OFF-HIGHWAY • DEFENSE

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Forces Driving Business Forward
OEM

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Forces act on all businesses
FLEETOEM

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Fleet Customers Want It All!
• Meet government regulations
• Low up-front cost
• Reliable
• Durable
• Available
• Fit for the job
• Fit for the driver
• Safe
• Easy to use
• Should not need to be repaired

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Mission Critical
A. Move freight quickly
B. Work slowly
C. Work in one place

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Routing and clipping must improve

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Batteries will be better

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Solar powered truck stop charging

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Supercapacitors are here now: will be mainstream in 2025

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Too many computers and too many communications links
Peterbilt SuperTruck

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Commercial instrumentation more basic than passenger cars
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RAM 1500 Laramie Longhorn
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Wearable Computers

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The
Future
Tractor-­‐Trailer
Rig
of
2025
will
look
a
lot
like
today’s
rig
on
the
outside,
but
be
very
different
on
the
inside.
Paul Menig, CEO!
Tech-I-M!
http://www.truckinginfo.com/news/story/2013/09/peterbilt-
showcases-supertruck-during-energy-summit.aspx