The shift in focus - from emissions driven innovation towards solutions that prioritize fuel economy - highlights Cummins Turbo Technologies’ belief that the industry has now reached the tipping-point at which global engine and vehicle manufacturers are developing products designed to insulate customers from rising fuel prices.

The bespoke two-stage technology, developed at the company’s technical centres in Huddersfield, UK and Columbus, Indiana USA, will be fitted to the Cummins 5.0L V8 Turbo Diesel engine and was showcased in tandem with the engine at the show. It will offer flexible architecture that efficiently integrates and packages two turbochargers in series to deliver high performance levels whilst still meeting the stringent emissions targets of the light-duty market.

The global engineering leader in turbocharging technologies chose IAA Hannover to unveil several near-market solutions, which it believes reflect the changing priorities of global engine and vehicle manufacturers whose future products are being developed to insulate customers from rising fuel prices. Speaking at the event, Executive Director for Product Line Management & Marketing, Mark Firth commented: "With fuel prices rising steeply we foresee the trend in engine downsizing - making them smaller and lighter - gathering pace.

Cummins Emission Solutions will be introducing the first of its next generation of aftertreatment platforms for future emissions regulations, Single Module. This platform product, which is a potential solution for Stage V, is designed to meet future emission requirements in a small, light-weight, simple and robust advanced aftertreatment system package.

Once everything was in place, the Cummins R2.8 fired up on the first try and has been cruising down the road ever since. In fact, anyone curious about what it takes to install a R2.8 Turbo Diesel can check out the installation guide on our Repower page.

As one of the first Beta customers of the R2.8 Turbo Diesel, this truck features a data-logger that allows Cummins engineers to receive valuable information from a maiden off-roading voyage to FJ Summit to highway cruising and every mile in between.

Cummins is excited to announce the launch of our “Repower Profile” series, featuring technical information and unique facts about vehicles repowered with the R2.8 Turbo Diesel.The maiden voyage for this Jeep was a six hour drive to Toledo, Ohio, for the first Toledo Jeep Fest. Since then, this Jeep has had more than 20,000 trouble free miles added to the odometer and continues to be both a fan and employee favorite, as it makes the rounds on engineering and marketing trips.

While the storm response has stabilized in Florida, the company is actively working to help bring electricity to key parts of Puerto Rico, where roughly 80 percent of residents were without power as of Oct. 19.

Officials from Microsoft, Cummins, and McKinstry celebrated the start of operations Wednesday, October 25, at their new advanced energy lab in Seattle, Washington, maintaining it could deliver important insights not just on powering datacenters, but on a host of other energy-intensive activities. “In the future, the research work done here will help us and our customers in really diverse applications and market segments,” said Gary Johansen, Executive Director of Power Systems Engineering at Cummins.