Concentric AB awarded contract to supply electro-hydraulic steering pumps on New York’s electric refuse trucks
By Jim Gibbins - 26th March 2021
Sweden / USA - Concentric AB of Linköping, Sweden has won a supply contract for electro-hydraulic steering (EHS) pumps by an unnamed global US truck builder, which will be used in its new electric refuse truck. These trucks are for deployment across the USA, starting in New York’s municipal sanitation department. Production is to start this year and sales revenues from this new contract are estimated at SEK16m over the next five years.
The primary benefit of the EHS system is to reduce energy consumption, achieving up to 50% in energy savings in certain applications utilising ‘power on demand’ technology. The EHS system is also a unique solution - functioning in electrified vehicles where the conventional hydraulic steering system can no longer be used.
