KUALA LUMPUR: UD Trucks and sole local distributor partner Tan Chong Industrial Equipment Sdn Bhd (TCIE) has officially brought in the new Euro 5 range for its Quester (heavy-duty) and Croner (medium-duty) trucks.
It is an upgrade that mostly boasts on features that improves on uptime, efficiency, and optimise the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for truck owners, all the while lowering the vehicle's environmental impact.
The trucks are the company's first models designed specifically for markets outside of Japan. Besides that the new range of Quester and Croner also features a new instrument cluster with real-time fuel coaching.
According to the companies, the range has recently been introduced in fast-growing and emerging regions around the world, as many countries are moving to adopt more stringent international emission standards in a bid to curb pollution and improve air quality.
"This is an era where sustainable logistics has become even more critical than ever before with air pollution being one of the biggest health threats, and the transport sector facing increasing environmental pressure and business challenges.
"As industry players, we need to embrace and make positive changes to reduce emissions and future-proof our business operations," said UD Trucks Malaysia hub managing director Steve Hedouin.
"For a sustainable future, the introduction of our new Euro 5 Quester and Croner is a significant evolution driven by UD Trucks' corporate purpose of creating better life through more efficient and cleaner emission trucks that the world needs today. It will give customers the leverage they can depend on for furthering their business productivity, all while minimizing their environmental impact and helping them stay competitive," he added.
TCIE chief operating officer Say Teck Ming said the offering of the new Euro 5 range reflects TCIE's and UD Trucks' shared commitment in supporting Malaysia's environmental, social and governance agenda and in meeting the needs of modern transport operators in a changing world environment.
He said that the trucks will be produced as CKD under TCIE's manufacturing facility.
"The new Euro 5 range, featuring the Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) technology, offers all of the additional advantages to help our customers go the extra mile efficiently and responsibly whilst retaining all other existing benefits that Quester and Croner have been delivering," he added.
SCR technology is said to significantly boost environmental protection and fuel economy. UD Trucks is the first truck manufacturer to introduce the SCR technology back in 2004 and has been reportedly more reliable in reducing nitrogen oxides emission when compared to other emission control technologies.
Same technology is also said to deliver improved fuel efficiency and total cost of ownership with lower maintenance requirements, compared to other available emission control technologies, as well as higher power and torque through optimised combustion without increasing the size of the engine.
With it, nitrogen oxides are now 60 per cent less and particulate matter emissions are at 80 per cent less than current Euro 3 levels, and are also 43 per cent less compared with Euro 4 levels.
Euro 5 engines also have a lower fuel consumption and CO² emissions than an equivalent Euro 3 truck.
