EPA certifies Cat’s fourth ACERT engine

Sep 15, 2003

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has certified Caterpillar’s fourth on-highway truck and bus engine equipped with ACERT technology. The C13 engine, which received 2004 certification, is popular in vocational-class trucks such as dump trucks, refuse haulers and cement mixers. EPA certified Caterpillar’s C7, C9 and C15 engines earlier this year.

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