Under pressure to phase out diesel-powered trucks, major manufacturers have offered plenty of assurances. Volvo plans to be “fossil free” by 2040 and boasted in its latest annual report that it Continue Reading
PepsiCo Inc (PEP.O) confirmed on Friday it would take delivery of Tesla Inc’s (TSLA.O) Semi trucks on Dec. 1, becoming the first company to receive its orders of the much-delayed Continue Reading
Electric truck and SUV maker Rivian urged customers to stop driving their vehicles if they experience issues with steering or suspension problems. Rivian Automotive Inc. RIVN -7.64%▼ is recalling nearly Continue Reading
Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) is starting Semi electric commercial truck production and PepsiCo Inc will get the first deliveries on Dec. 1, the electric vehicle maker’s chief Elon Musk tweeted on Continue Reading
Inside a colossal new plant, about 13 football fields long, the employees of SK Battery America are at work 24/7, essential players in the high-stakes early days of a worldwide Continue Reading
Ford Motor Co.’s new all-electric truck is getting a price increase fewer than four months after it started shipping to dealerships for the first time. The Dearborn, Mich., automaker said Continue Reading
Researchers at Cornell have developed a coupled transportation–power system framework for incorporating a wireless charging road system into the real-time electricity market. In addition, they propose an optimization-based control strategy Continue Reading
Diesel prices are weighing on the freight industry, and there is no end in sight. In 2021, the world’s first partially battery-electric freight train was unveiled in Pittsburgh, showing that Continue Reading
At Rivian RIVN -5.48%▼ Automotive Inc.’s factory in Normal, Ill., life is anything but. Car factories around the world routinely churn out models around the clock. About eight months after production on Rivian’s electric Continue Reading
Following the market launch of the eActros for heavy-duty distribution transport in 2021, Mercedes-Benz Trucks is systematically pressing ahead with the introduction of additional battery-electric models for this and coming Continue Reading
The sale leaves Ford with about 86.9 million shares of Rivian, or a 9.7% stake, according to FactSet data. Rivian’s stock price sank earlier in the week following news of Continue Reading
A push to go electric is sowing discord among landscapers. New state and municipal laws are driving a transition away from puttering, gas-powered lawn mowers and leaf blowers and toward Continue Reading
The robots will take the most tedious, most dangerous jobs first, in most things. Trucking is no exception. Autonomous driving engineers are squarely focused on long-haul freight, the interstate runs Continue Reading
Just outside the English market town of Bicester, 15 miles from Oxford, lies the shell of a factory that sits at the forefront of the electric vehicle revolution in the Continue Reading
.When Angelo Logan was growing up in the city of Commerce, California, in the 1970s, he remembers how residents used to call the weeks leading up to Christmas the “truck Continue Reading
Ford F 8.38% Motor Co. is reorganizing its operations to create two separate divisions—one for its conventional gas-engine business and another to focus on developing electric vehicles and software. Ford said Wednesday that Continue Reading
Workers load mail into delivery vehicles outside a USPS distribution center in Chicago, Illinois. The U.S. Postal Service said it could buy more electric vehicles if more funding were available, Continue Reading
Ford’s all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup can power homes in a U.S. first offering in which customers will be able to power their homes with an electric truck, the car manufacturer Continue Reading
The stock price for electric truck company Rivian fell below the price of its initial public offering after Amazon said it would also buy electric delivery vans from Chrysler owner Continue Reading
Mary Barra speaks next to the new Chevrolet Silverado EV at CES 2022. General Motors Co. Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra showed off the company’s electric Chevrolet Silverado at the Continue Reading
Ford Motor Company plans to raise production of the F-150 Lightning pickup at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn to 150,000 trucks per year to meet high demand, Beginning Continue Reading
General Motors Co. GM -0.75% set one of its most ambitious financial targets in years on Wednesday, telling investors it aims to more than double revenue by 2030 with an influx of new battery-electric Continue Reading
When the first snub-nosed, electric van rolled off the assembly line yesterday at the Electric Last Mile Solutions Inc. plant in Mishawaka, Indiana, it was a proud moment for the Continue Reading
A new total cost of ownership (TCO) study from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) finds that battery-electric and fuel-cell electric commercial trucks could be economically competitive with conventional diesel Continue Reading
While General Motors is in the midst of EV hell, dealing with a massive recall for its Chevy Bolt and shuttering production as a result of the ongoing semi shortage, Continue Reading
Hyundai Motor Group is aiming to become the world’s first automaker to power all its commercial vehicle models with fuel cell systems by 2028 as it seeks to popularise hydrogen Continue Reading
Electric vehicle industry experts and scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are testing and evaluating the compatibility of inlet and connectors for a new high-power charging standard for Continue Reading
Wente Vineyards typically picks its grapes in the late summer and fall, but it harvests its complaints months earlier. Like most vintners, Wente sprays its grapes with fungicide in the Continue Reading
Xos, Inc., a manufacturer of fully electric Class 5 to Class 8 commercial vehicles has signed agreements with FedEx Ground operators to deliver 120 zero emission electric trucks across 35 different FedEx Continue Reading
Spain-based global energy company Repsol and Talgo, a manufacturer of intercity, standard, and high speed passenger trains, will promote a renewable-hydrogen-powered train, fostering emission-free rail transport in the Iberian Peninsula. Repsol is Continue Reading
The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) has begun the first phase of a project to transform a segment of the state’s highway into wireless charging pavement for electric vehicles, according Continue Reading
The Indiana Department of Transportation and Purdue University early in July announced plans to develop the first contactless wireless-charging concrete pavement highway segment. The project will use innovative magnetizable concrete Continue Reading
General Motors and BrightDrop, a new business created and wholly owned by GM focused on electric commercial delivery and logistics, announced the Ultium Charge 360 fleet charging service, a comprehensive Continue Reading
Though EVs represent a small fraction of delivery vehicles today, the number is growing. In 2019, Amazon announced plans to obtain 100,000 electric delivery vehicles. UPS has ordered 10,000 of Continue Reading
Using wind tunnel measurements and computational fluid dynamics simulations, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) engineers have demonstrated that aerodynamically integrated vehicle shapes decrease body-axis drag in a crosswind, creating large Continue Reading
Oshkosh Defense has selected Spartanburg, South Carolina to be the home of its efforts to build the Next Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV) for the US Postal Service. ( Earlier post Continue Reading
A new electric version of Ford’s immensely popular F-150 pickup truck might just be the catalyst that hastens America’s transition from gasoline to battery-powered vehicles. Jim Farley, the company’s new Continue Reading
The world’s largest truck and bus maker is charting an ambitious zero-emission future and says it’s not that far off – despite higher costs and the current lack of support Continue Reading
Ford unveiled the F-150 Lightning battery-electric pickup. Arriving in spring 2022, F-150 Lightning will be available in four series and two battery options at more than 2,300 EV-certified Ford dealers Continue Reading
House lawmakers advanced language authorizing $8 billion for the U.S. Postal Service to buy more electric vehicles as the agency modernizes its aging fleet. The House Oversight and Reform Committee added Continue Reading
Bob Dykes speaks in the gravelly drawl you’d expect of a man who grew up in Wyoming and owns an oil-and-gas company. He’s 69 years old, calls himself a political Continue Reading
Amazon, Walmart, General Motors, and now FedEx. The giant delivery company joined more than 50 other major corporations when it announced this week that it too aims to be carbon-neutral by Continue Reading
The Washington state legislature held a public hearing on Clean Cars 2030, a bill reintroduced with 27 co-sponsors. The bill, HB 1204 / SB 5256 , requires all model year Continue Reading
The market for battery-powered delivery vehicles and equipment has so much potential that General Motors is forming a new business unit to serve it, a move that lifted the automaker’s Continue Reading
General Motors Co. GM 6.24% is launching a new electric-truck business geared toward delivery services, the latest in the company’s efforts to commercialize battery technology it is developing in-house. Following the news, shares of GM Continue Reading
General Motors has launched a new business, BrightDrop , which will offer an ecosystem of electric first-to-last-mile products, software and services to empower delivery and logistics companies to move goods Continue Reading
Europe’s truck manufacturers have concluded that by 2040 all new trucks sold need to be fossil free in order to reach carbon-neutrality by 2050. It will be possible to meet Continue Reading
Toyota’s next generation fuel cell electric technology is now powering a new set of Class 8 heavy-duty trucks. Using the same fuel cell system as the all-new 2021 Mirai sedan Continue Reading
Tone down the falling lumber, avalanches of boulders and slow-motion suspension sag as a super-sized truck bed swallows all that dreck. Cowboy cosplay never gets old and certainly sells some trucks, but Continue Reading
Ford Motor Company announced that its Kansas City Assembly Plant will build the all-new E-Transit van, part of a more than $3.2 billion investment in Ford’s North American manufacturing facilities Continue Reading
