inside the truck is a powertrain made by tesla co founder, ian wright.ompany makes cleaner powertrains for what he calls the dirtiest vehicles on the road, garbage trucks, buses. >> they waste fuel. by going to electric drive, we can save a vast amount of fuel and save a lot of money. >> reporter: wright his says electric powertrains are quieter, use 67% less fuel, and produce 63% fewer emissions. the powertrains cost $200,000, about half the price of a brand-new garbage truck. wright says customers can also save $40,000 a year in both fuel and maintenance costs. wroit sold 15 powertrains to a group which provides trash and recycling services to sonoma county. but there is competition. a private bay area company has been making all electric powertrains for google shuttle buses and chicago's trash trucks, among other clients since 2009. wright says his powertrain, fueled by a gas turbine, has advantages over a purely electric one. >> it's actually cleaner than pure electric, because the engine we use for the on-board generator burns cleaner than the avera

the company writes we just launched a powertrain for trash haulers. company says it uses 67% less fuel and produces 63% fewer emissions. they do have competition like moti motive. wright says his powertrains have an advantage. >> it is actually cleaner than pure electric. the engine we use for the on board generator is a gas turbine and that burns cleaner than the average mix. it is cleaner not to plug it in. >> the powertrains costs $200,000, about half the price as a new garbage truck. customers can save $40,000 a year in fuel and maintenance costs. they have their first customer, the raddo group which provides trash and recycling services here in sonoma county. the first customer. and signed on purchasing 15 powertrains from the company and the company says it is also in talks with mac trucks to form a partnership. >> thanks. >>> still ahead, a major market warning sign what it is and that it is signaling head. stocks hitting session lows, the dow above the 18,000 level. don't move. "power lunch" will be right back. >>> welcome back. second hour of

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the third trend is the powertrains. being driven by policy mandates then by consumer demand. combined, these trends are changing mobility. as mobility changes the goal my member shares to ensure that consumers are able to afford these vehicles that offer a higher efficiency and enhanced safety features. the faster we can move to the future, the better. the introduction of self driving cars is just around the corner, the transition will take two generations. these will not be a majority of the fleet till 2045 or ubiquitous til 2055. but the important fact is that benefits are materialize impaired safety. 99 percent of fatalities are the result of behavioral issues, environmental, or infrastructure limitations. technology addresses many challenges by helping to avoid crashes altogether. elon musk says that moving too slowly will kill people. i would say it less provocatively. but he has a point. forward.o lean second, technology can reduce carbon and strengthen the environment. by facilitating more efficient use of the automobile. --rd, technology can enhance for the economical

we are massively rebuilding our german plants from traditional powertrain to electric train.electric vehicles will be built in germany. the three component producing be keysn germany will to the electric vehicles. we are investing in battery systems and also in the staggered development of the battery cell production. we are going to strengthen our software development. are service integrators. a large part of those jobs will be created here. this location will be our headquarters for digital technologies. we make that possible because at the same time, we are much more efficient and profitable. in all plants, both in car plants and component producing plants, we will increase productivity by up to 25%. we are building more cars with fewer people. we are going to withdraw from areas that are no longer profitable like plastics manufacturing or the teacher exchange business. our administration will be lean and more powerful. less duplication of work. huge -- fewer hierarchies. you can see for yourself ladies and gentlemen, we are turning around the brand of volkswagen and makin

about 99% of the major gains and powertrain efficiency boosted acceleration. john dingell unlocked all legislation until president george w. bush's '07 update. so this stagnation wasted two whole turnovers of the car fleet that were supposed to be used to implement the available and cost-effective efficiency. and that's why we have this big fat oil demand continuing while we have competing soft fuels. then thirdly, soft technologies. well, they didn't do that. the main reason is rapid process was explicitly predicated on aggressive support. it got largely hostile for 32 of the past 40 years. it's become a political football. even the fossil fuel firms that invested in renewable the and dumped them just as they were poised for success. the big structural change that did go well over time was president carter's perpa law. that enabled renewables at the early to mid 80s. though it was weakened by force legal and legislative attack, it did destroy the rationale for monopolies and laid the groundwork for markets and placed perpa in half the nation n. three fifths o