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
PACCAR announced that a Kenworth T680 fuel cell electric vehicle and a battery electric Peterbilt Model 579EV became the first Class 8 zero emissions vehicles to drive to the 14,115 Continue Reading
Volvo Trucks will offer a complete heavy-duty range with electric drivelines starting in Europe in 2021. Volvo Trucks is now running tests of the electric heavy-duty Volvo FH, Volvo FM Continue Reading
HITTING THE STREETS Our masked writer, sitting at the right-side controls, lines up a refuse bin with the side-loader arm. WHEN MACK Truck’s press people invited me to drive their Continue Reading
The U.K.’s National Health Service has set a target to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045, making it the world’s first health service to set such an ambitious climate Continue Reading
Volvo Trucks North America announced today that third-party supply chain solutions provider NFI began piloting two Volvo VNR Electric trucks as part of the Volvo LIGHTS (Low Impact Green Heavy Continue Reading
MAN handed over the world’s first electrically powered armored money transporter to the international security service provider Prosegur at the beginning of August. The MAN eTGE electric van ( earlier Continue Reading
Mercedes-Benz Vans and Amazon announced the largest order for Mercedes-Benz electric vehicles to date: more than 1,800 battery-electric eVito and eSprinter from Mercedes-Benz Vans will be delivered to Amazon starting Continue Reading
Amazon says it’s buying 1,800 electric delivery vans from Mercedes-Benz, the biggest such order for the German automaker to date. In announcing the order Friday, Mercedes said it would also Continue Reading
Dozens of new electric-vehicle models are expected to arrive at dealerships in the next few years. We followed eight Wall Street Journal reporters in four countries to see if they, Continue Reading
When a company called Nikola debuted on the stock market last month, its stock soared more than 100 percent in just the first few days of trading. The company had Continue Reading
In November 2019, beer maker Anheuser-Busch made its first emissions-free beer delivery in its hometown of St. Louis using a hydrogen-electric truck made by Nikola Motor Company. This post has Continue Reading
They are both named after inventor Nikola Tesla. They are both aiming to upend the market of predominantly gasoline and diesel-powered cars and trucks with their zero-emission technologies. And their Continue Reading
The electric future, as dreamed up in the 1990s, centered on groundbreaking cars like General Motors’ EV1 : tiny, faceless transportation pods, their sci-fi bubble shapes a testament to aerodynamic Continue Reading
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in late February demonstrated a 20-kilowatt bi-directional wireless charging system installed on a UPS medium-duty, plug-in hybrid electric delivery Continue Reading
ABB will supply high voltage-capable chargers for the Volvo LIGHTS project. ( Earlier post .) ABB’s charging systems can charge any electric vehicle (EV) battery at up to 920 VDC, Continue Reading
Initial tests of in-road charging for electric trucks on a stretch of Swedish road have been successful, according to project managers. The scope of testing will now increase, encompassing more Continue Reading
ElectReon has successfully wirelessly charged a fully electric 40-ton truck and trailer at a test facility in Sweden. The next step will be to charge the truck through dynamic wireless Continue Reading
Global mining company, Anglo American, has engaged Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) to develop its new Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV): a 290-tonne electrically powered mining haul truck, which is set Continue Reading
Global light-duty plug-in electric vehicle sales dropped 3% in December but full-year data showed a year-on-year increase of 9%, according to the latest research from S&P Global Platts Analytics. Receive Continue Reading
Daimler Trucks North America is fleet-testing a Freightliner eCascadia and a Freightliner eM2 106. Daimler recently bundled all of its electric-vehicle activities under a new E-Mobility Group. Photo: Daimler Trucks Continue Reading
The Mercedes-Benz Dusseldorf plant has started production of the Mercedes-Benz eSprinter. ( Earlier post .) Mercedes-Benz has been building its globally successful vans in Dusseldorf since 1962; more than 4.6 Continue Reading
A total of 200,000 orders have been placed for Tesla’s latest model, the Cybertruck, which came as a surprise to many not least because of its departure from the Tesla Continue Reading
Deutsche Post DHL Group’s StreetScooter electric vehicle unit will enter the U.S. market next year as delivery firms and municipalities work to cut greenhouse gas emissions. o DHL will debut Continue Reading
At a livestreamed event in Los Angeles, Elon Musk unveiled his company’s latest creation, the electric pickup Cybertruck. The idiosyncratically designed truck will come in three powertrain versions: single-motor RWD; Continue Reading
– General Motors Co confirmed on Thursday it has sold its shuttered Lordstown Assembly plant in Ohio to a start-up that has an ambitious plan to begin building electric pickup Continue Reading
The two-week pilot starting Tuesday will use big rigs supplied by autonomous trucking firm TuSimple to haul trailers on five round trips between distribution centers, the company said. The roughly Continue Reading
Resembling the helmet of a Star Wars stormtrooper, a driverless electric truck began daily freight deliveries on a public road in Sweden on Wednesday, in what developer Einride and logistics Continue Reading
In Part 1 of this ten year update we reviewed the progress or lack thereof, of all the projects mentioned in the 2009 article, concluding that while some had failed, Continue Reading
Over ten years ago on April 9, 2009 the original article “Electric Commercial Vehicles” was posted at The Oil Drum web site. In Part 1 of this ten year update Continue Reading
Ford Motor Company has made a $500-million minority equity investment in electric vehicle maker Rivian ( earlier post ). In addition to the investment, the companies have agreed to work Continue Reading
Just over ten years ago on April 9, 2009, the original article “Electric Commercial Vehicles” was posted at The Oil Drum web site. The article was prompted by an exchange Continue Reading
In March, Cummins began delivering eight Cummins-powered all-electric vehicles to the United States Postal Service (USPS) in California. The fully-electric Cummins PowerDrive equipped vans are expected to reduce fuel and Continue Reading
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has made awards under the Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for a Phase 1 Truck Platooning Early Deployment Assessment. This project is being conducted to understand Continue Reading
Amazon.com, Inc., just added electric trucks and SUVs to its broad investment portfolio. Electric truck and SUV startup Rivian just announced that its $700 million funding round is being led Continue Reading
Mercedes-Benz Trucks has handed over a fully electric eActros truck to Murg Valley (Southern Germany)-based logistics company Logistik Schmitt. As part of the eWayBW project, commercial transport will be electric Continue Reading
A truck leasing company has said Tesla had approached with an offer to test drive a new truck prototype whose initial version the luxury EV maker revealed last year. Electrek’s Continue Reading
Daimler Trucks North America has delivered the first vehicle in its Freightliner Electric Innovation Fleet—a Freightliner eM2 ( earlier post )—to Penske Truck Leasing, fulfilling its promise to put an Continue Reading
Porsche has commissioned a fully electric MAN eTGM ( earlier post ) for logistics operations at its Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen site. The truck is the first vehicle of this kind that has Continue Reading
Electric vehicles continue to gain market share at an accelerating rate, but electrification could go even further, expanding into the realm of commercial trucking, marine travel and even to airplanes. Continue Reading
Walmart Canada plans to power its fleet using 100% alternative power by 2028. To meet that goal, the company has announced plans to acquire an additional 30 Tesla 18-wheeler semi-trucks, Continue Reading
UPS announced a collaboration with Thor Trucks , Inc. ( earlier post ) to develop and to test a fully-electric class 6 delivery truck in Los Angeles, Calif. The truck Continue Reading
In June, Daimler Trucks presented two new fully electric trucks from its US-subsidiary Freightliner. Now, Daimler announced the two first customers to operate the e-vehicles within their fleet: a total Continue Reading
The German Federal Ministry for the Environment gave the green light for a subsidized pilot project to conduct research and development on the electrification of long-haul trucks. The electricity supply Continue Reading
