Advanced Clean Truck rule

Nikola electric truck recall price tag $61.8M

Nikola Corp. has set aside $61.8 million to replace the batteries in its recalled electric trucks. The company expects to begin returning repaired trucks to customers in the first quarter.

The accrued liability in third-quarter earnings includes the estimated cost to reengineer, validate and retrofit the 209 recalled battery-electric trucks with an alternative battery pack. Nikola did not identify the supplier.

“Upon further investigation, it was determined that the compromise of the battery...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/nikola-electric-truck-recall-price-tag-61-8m

CARB and engine manufacturers compromise on emissions timing

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After months of acrimony between the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the Engine...

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Truck Tech: Alpha male call edition

This week, Lordstown Motors CEO Daniel Ninivaggi took umbrage to a question about leadership at the struggling electric pickup truck maker; competing trucking industry events push green agendas; and a look at the state of aftermarket parts amid the supply chain crisis.

Who’s the alpha male around here?

The final question from Bank of America Securities senior automotive analyst John Murphy to Lordstown Motors Corp. CEO Daniel Ninivaggi on the struggling electric pickup truck maker’s earnings call...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truck-tech-alpha-male-call-edition

EPA preparing nationwide truck emissions regulation

The Biden administration will soon propose a regulation aimed at cutting nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from heavy-duty trucks. It would be the first such regulation since 2001.

The Environmental Protection Agency “is working on a proposed rule to reduce pollution from heavy-duty vehicles and engines that would significantly cut NOx emissions and update [greenhouse gas] standards for certain categories,” EPA spokesman Rick Conger stated in an email to FreightWaves. “These standards, currently...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/epa-preparing-nationwide-truck-emissions-regulation

New Jersey’s adoption of Advanced Clean Trucks rule sends demand signal to industry

More than a decade ago, when the low-carbon fuel standard launched in California, its success was thwarted with various legal battles. Now it’s the de facto global standard in decarbonizing freight and logistics by going after the upstream producers and importers of diesel and oil. Clean air regulators have to play the long game with short-term updates, the latest of which comes from New Jersey, the most recent state to adopt California’s Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) rule. 

“It’s a requirement...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/new-jerseys-adoption-of-advanced-clean-trucks-rule-sends-demand-signal-to-industry

Truck Tech: Autonomous perspectives edition

Welcome back to Truck Tech. This week, we’re unpacking the recent CES panel discussion I moderated that featured autonomous truck developer TuSimple, its manufacturing partners Navistar and Scania, and Nicole Nason, a veteran administrator of federal highways and previously the nation’s top safety regulator. 

Autonomous trucking’s challenges

Taking stock of the challenges facing autonomous trucking led to some unexpected observations around route planning, infrastructure, the driver shortage and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truck-tech-autonomous-perspectives-edition

Cummins will make electric medium-duty truck prototype for Isuzu

Cummins Inc., which signed a long-term deal last year to make diesel powertrains for Isuzu medium-duty trucks, is adding a Class 6 battery-electric powertrain prototype to the mix that will go into customer demonstrations in Q2.

The PowerDrive 6000 is used in Gillig transit and Bluebird school buses. A PowerDrive 8000 version will go into a Kalmar terminal tractor this year capable of pulling gross vehicle weights from 80,000 to 195,000 pounds, Cummins announced in December.

“It’s the same...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cummins-will-make-electric-medium-duty-truck-prototype-for-isuzu

Get used to the name: Meritor’s 14Xe electric powertrain becoming ubiquitous

Meritor Inc., a supplier of drivetrain, mobility, braking, aftermarket and electric powertrains, announced a raft of deals Tuesday that will make the name of its 14Xe chassis hard to ignore as it spreads throughout trucks, buses and industrial applications.

It is a big deal because Meritor (NYSE: MTOR) competes with other suppliers, including Dana Inc., BorgWarner and Eaton Corp., in pursuing a conversion of significant portions of their business aimed at internal combustion engine-driven...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/get-used-to-the-name-meritors-14xe-electric-powertrain-becoming-ubiquitous

Truck Tech: California electric dreams edition

California does its bit for small fleets looking to electrify; Amazon Web Services makes cloud storage for automotive autonomy a thing; and Peterbilt takes immersive reality to the service bay. And yes, we have changed our name.

Beginning this week, Truck Talk is now Truck Tech, a title that better describes the newsletter’s content. We still offer perspective, context and commentary on the trucking ecosystem and its evolution through autonomous, connectivity and electrification technologies.  

Lo...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truck-tech-california-electric-dreams-edition

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