Commercial Vehicle With An Internal Combustion Engine And A Heat Recovery System Using The Heat Sources Of That Engine

A commercial vehicle including a driver's cab, an internal combustion engine (4), an the exhaust gas system (7), a muffler (8) and a tail pipe (10);

• and a heat recovery system with a medium-containing circuit including at least one pump, an expander and a condenser, and wherein the waste heat of one of the internal combustion engine (4), hot engine assemblies and hot working media is convertable into useful power-boosting energy;
• said commercial vehicle comprising an evaporator (9) in the medium-containing circuit of the heat recovery system, said evaporator being one of
• integrated into the muffler (8) by one of being installed into the tailpipe (10) within the muffler and partially replacing the tailpipe (10) within the muffler (8);
• attached externally to the muffler (8) and to an end section (10b) of the tailpipe (10);
• integrated into the tailpipe (10) by one of being installed in the tailpipe (10) and partially replacing the tailpipe (10);
• and
• integrated into a muffler (8) installed in an exhaust pipe (28) extending vertically behind the driver's cab (3).