 
Still RX 70-25 diesel truck with the lowest consumption and the lowest CO2 figure in its class
Still RX 70-25 diesel truck with environmentally friendly hybrid technology
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Environmental and driver protection is the centrepiece of the Still Company's presentation at BAUMA. This concerns such environmentally friendly and high-performance product innovations as the RX 70/ R 70 diesel/LP gas truck series and the RX 60 electrically-powered truck series. NetProtect - an innovative restraint system - and the intuitive new fingertip-operation feature, together with services related to Intralogistics, round out the array of offerings to be seen there.
Offering the most economical trucks in their various classes, the Still company is making a perceptible contribution to climate protection – because the lowest rates of fuel consumption translate at the same time into the lowest rates of CO2 emissions.
Humanity only has until the year 2020 to prevent the Earth's climate from collapsing. These are the latest alarming findings of the third part of the study by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which will be officially presented in Bangkok in May 2007. The period for changing direction is thus running out faster and faster and this is why, from now on, every contribution to the reduction of carbon dioxide counts. Still GmbH, the leading supplier of intelligent control systems for Intralogistics, wants aid this effort. For many years now, it has been a continuous aim of the company to reduce the fuel consumption of its trucks, and the new RX 70 diesel truck, the first in the world to be equipped with a hybrid drive, sets a new benchmark for this.
The RX 70 exhibits excellent consumption levels of only 2.5 litres per hour (measured on the 2.5-ton capacity model in accordance with the new VDI 2198 standard, i.e. 60 work cycles per hour). This makes the RX 70 by far the most economic truck of its class – and as such the one emitting the least amount of carbon dioxide. For the RX 70 this means emitting only 6.4 kilograms of CO2 for each hour of operation. It would not make sense here to express this value in terms of grams per kilometre as is the custom for automobiles, because the truck’s fuel consumption is not related solely to the distances it travels but also to the loads it moves (an average passenger car travelling at 50 km/h emits 9.9 kg of CO2 per hour; source: TREMOD, 1999).
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