Thought Leadership from Glacier Bay

We continuously study the energy market to provide you thought provoking content that can help you run your business. Click on the links below to download PDF documents of our latest research.

Glacier Bay Information Series
This writeup on the Small Business Act provides information on tax advantages for 2010 and 2011 for companies buying our ClimaCab products.
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Glacier Bay Information Series
The December 18 signing of the Tax Relief bill provides 100% write off of the depreciation associated with your ClimaCab purchase.
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Reduce Your Idle %

The ClimaCab® electric APU provides 10 hours of temperature control for sleeper cabs without the need to idle your engine. The result is significant fuel savings, improved driver comfort and less engine hours during the truck's trade cycle. Click here to learn more.

Conserving Oil

A Class 8 Truck consumes .8 gallons per hour of diesel fuel while idling at night to keep its driver comfortable in the sleeper cab. Many trucks idle up to 2000 hours per year consuming 1600 gallons of fuel.

Our ClimaCab electric APU eliminates the need to idle the truck's engine. Fleets can save as much as $4800 per truck per year.

Eliminating Carbon

The United States EPA estimates that 22.2 pounds of CO2 is generated for every gallon of fuel consumed. A truck idling 2000 hours a year puts over 17 tons of carbon into the atmosphere.

There are approximately 2 million trucks operating in the United States, half of which are sleeper cabs that typically idle at this level.

Glacier Bay is having a huge impact on the environment by eliminating idling.

Changing Power Generation

The generator set has not changed a lot since its introduction. Most designs run at two speeds -- idle and full rpm -- and are sized for their peak output characteristics.

Glacier Bay is changing that. Our "load aware" power electronics technology actually anticipates changes in the load on a system and varies the engine speed of the generator accordingly. The result is reduced fuel consumption, lighter, small size systems, noise reduction and an overall increase in responsiveness. This "disruptive technology" will change the face of the generator set market.