Effenco Hybrid Solutions has been in the business of developing and deploying fuel saving systems on heavy duty vehicles for 10 years. The company’s core technology, the Effenco Active Stop-Start system, has been deployed on refuse collection vehicles and terminal tractors and is currently being adapted to bulk fuel vehicles, bucket trucks and transit buses. The technology is being used in Canada, the US and in Europe and has been proven to reduce engine hours by 50% and fuel consumption by 25-32%. On the basis of fuel and GHG reduction performance relative to incremental capital cost, the technology leads the market by a wide margin in class 6 to 8 urban and suburban vocational applications.