BREA – OC Waste & Recycling is taking steps to help keep our air cleaner and save some money. The department that manages Orange County’s three landfills introduced a tractor at the Olinda Landfill in ...

Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes about automotive technology for CNET's Roadshow. Prior to the automotive beat, he covered spyware, Web building technologies, and computer hardware. He began ...

Caterpillar Inc. unveiled the first-of-its-kind electric drive track-type tractor in ceremonies Tuesday in Building SS. Caterpillar Group President Doug Oberhelman, who takes over as Caterpillar CEO ...

A diesel-electric tractor ground through its paces at the Olinda Alpha Landfill in Brea on Tuesday in a demonstration put on by its builder, Caterpillar. The new D7E tractor would be used to bury ...

The Cat D7E features a diesel-electric drive system that boosts productivity and efficiency while lowering operating costs and dramatically reducing fuel consumption. D7E dozers are working in many ...

Caterpillar's (CAT) earnings report today was cloudy—second quarter profits dropped 66% as sales cratered—but there was a silver lining: the company reported earnings of 60 cents per share, when ...

A continuously variable electric motor drives each track 60% fewer moving parts in the drivetrain Center-post cab provides more all-around visibility and wider sight lines to the blade Single larger ...

Caterpillar’s new D7E bulldozer is the world’s first hybrid—uh, electric . . . uh, wait, what is it again? “We consider this a diesel-electric hybrid powertrain,” says senior project engineer Keith ...

The world’s first hybrid dozer will cost about $100,000 more, or 20%, than a comparable non-hybrid of the same size but will do more work and pay for itself in about two and a half years, say ...

At the D7E's official introduction event in Peoria, Cat representatives spoke for the first time of the electrically driven bulldozer as a “hybrid-electric” tractor, and candidly discussed the ...