Court upholds EPA’s ability to grant environmental waivers to California

The ability of California to set its own, more stringent environmental and emissions standards — the basis for the state’s Advanced Clean Trucks rule and possibly its Advanced Clean Fleets rule — was upheld Tuesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

The case, Ohio vs. EPA, had a plethora of plaintiffs, including 16 states besides Ohio and a group of petroleum-focused trade groups such as the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers and the National Association...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/court-upholds-epas-ability-to-grant-environmental-waivers-to-california

Zero-emission truck adoption soars — and not just in California

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Think electric trucks are just a thing in California? Think again. The Golden State unsurprisingly...

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Real estate investors surge into electric truck charging

Somewhere around the middle of the Netflix movie “The Founder,” actor Michael Keaton’s Ray Kroc character is told that his franchise success turns on real estate, not flipping hamburgers.

The same could be said of the nascent electric truck charging business. Every electric charging depot needs land. As part of a multiprong strategy, the biggest real estate developers and a host of well-funded startups are gobbling up acreage for future sites.

The opportunity is enormous. The California Energy...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/real-estate-investors-surge-into-electric-truck-charging

Will cleaner diesel trucks matter in ZEV world?

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Allen Schaeffer sits in the middle of the multidirectional push and debate over what will be driving...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/will-cleaner-diesel-trucks-matter-in-zev-world

Truck Tech: Electric incentives edition

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The supply is running low. But getting in on California’s free money for electric truck purchases is still doable. Also, Walmart lays out its plan for sustainable over-the-road trucking. And Kodiak Robotics shows the ease of maintaining autonomous tech on its fourth-generation truck.

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It’s no secret that a Class 8 electric truck can cost three times as much up front as a...

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

CARB boss: California, feds could align on truck pollution rules

INDIANAPOLIS — California and the federal government could align on a single regulation for nitrogen oxide emissions from trucks, but the Environmental Protection Agency would have to pick the toughest of the options it laid out in proposed rulemaking.

“I think we are interested in the federal government being as aggressive as possible,” Liane Randolph, chair of the California Air Resources Board (CARB), told FreightWaves after an address to the Green Truck Summit at NTEA Work Truck Show on...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/carb-boss-california-feds-could-align-on-truck-pollution-rules

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