Quiet, clean sweep in France

The lumbering, polluting trucks that have collected garbage from French streets for years will soon become a noisy memory once a new generation of super quiet, all-electric vehicles starts making the rounds next week.
The zero-emission,rift gold made-in France trucks are still large and bulky, but they promise to pack as much punch as their cousins with a vastly reduced impact on the environment and a relatively inoffensive, low humming engine sound.
The Paris suburb of Courbevoie, with over 70,000 residents, will receive the first all-electric trucks on May 12.
All existing trucks — which operate on dual electric and thermal motors — will eventually be replaced by the new vehicles,rift gold of which 11 will be in operation by the end of this year, according to SITA France, a subsidiary of waste management company Suez Environnement.
“The engineers faced a real challenge of how to make it all work together — how they would be able to minimize overall electrical usage and come up with the vehicle that we have here,” said SITA industrial director, Cyril Fraissinet.