2020 saw many significant news stories in the freight industries that extended beyond COVID. In fact, among FreightWaves’ Top 10 stories of the year, COVID-related articles barely appear — showing up just once.
To fill the FreightWaves Top 10, we didn’t choose the stories we liked the best — we let you, the reader, decide. These are the Top 10 stories on freightwaves.com based on page views, from No. 10 to No. 1.
Once simply a chain of fueling stations,...
Arizona’s largest utility wants state permission to sell cheap electricity to Nikola Corp. (NASDAQ: NKLA) so the startup electric truck maker can build hydrogen fuel stations for its Class 8 fuel cell trucks.
Massive amounts of electricity are required to make hydrogen through electrolysis. It is a process that breaks down water into oxygen and hydrogen gas. Nikola plans to break ground on its first hydrogen station between Arizona and California next year. It ultimately plans a network of 700...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/nikola-wants-cheap-electricity-for-arizona-hydrogen-stations
AB InBev is on track to reach its 2025 goal of 100% renewable energy in 2021, according to Angie Slaughter, vice president of sustainability logistics and capabilities procurement at Anheuser-Busch InBev.
Slaughter joined FreightWaves Executive Publisher Kevin Hill in a fireside chat Tuesday during the North American Supply Chain Summit to talk about sustainability throughout the supply chain.
Slaughter said AB InBev has a wind farm in Oklahoma that produces 152 megawatts of power, representing...
https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/early-renewable-energy-achievement-on-tap-for-ab-inbev
Nikola Corp. (NASDAQ: NKLA) is fighting back after three weeks of withering media coverage following a short seller’s fraud allegations that succeeded in crashing the startup electric truck maker’s stock.
In a media tour that helped the company’s battered shares recover some of their lost ground, Nikola on Wednesday put CEO Mark Russell and recently named Chairman Steve Girsky into media interviews seeking to reset company fortunes with an all-is-well message.
Asked by FreightWaves what Nikola...
As media coverage dies down on a short seller’s report questioning Nikola Corp.’s integrity, company executives are making the rounds of analyst events. They are touting the startup electric truck maker’s business case, including new details of its network of hydrogen stations.
Nikola (NASDAQ: NKLA) is silent on whether the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) are investigating allegations in a Sept. 10 Hindenburg...
https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/nikola-will-truck-hydrogen-to-stations-when-electricity-costs-too-much
The Daily Dash is a quick look at what is happening in the freight ecosystem. In today’s edition, the U.S. International Trade Commission has been asked to investigate whether Mexico-based cross-border trucking operations are hurting U.S. long-haul truckers. Plus, Workhorse Group continues to advance drone delivery technology, Canadian truckers are being scammed and Anheuser-Busch makes a big shift to natural gas.
Trouble south of the border?The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association...
Ever since Anheuser-Busch launched a new sustainability initiative two years ago, the brewing company has pursued a decidedly fuel-agnostic approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in its transportation and logistics division.
Among its commitments are an order for 800 hydrogen fuel...
https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/180-anheuser-busch-trucks-to-chug-renewable-natural-gas
The focus on the stock price gyrations of electric truck startup Nikola Corp. (NASDAQ: NKLA) overlooks a major part of its business plan — making and selling hydrogen fuel for its fuel cell trucks and anyone who wants it.
“Hydrogen is a key to everything with Nikola,” says Executive Chairman Trevor Milton. “It’s our ability to separate ourselves from our competitors. “Nikola is not just a truck company. We’re really an energy technology company.
“We’ve spent more time on reducing the cost of...
https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/hydrogen-fuel-the-other-side-of-nikolas-electric-truck-business
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Truck drivers have always kept our economy moving. About 80% of all cargo in the United States is transported by trucks, and the trucking industry itself is responsible for roughly 6% of all full-time jobs in the country – employing about 3.5 million professional truck drivers. Without truckers, the American economy would grind to a halt.
No event in recent...
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The oft-delayed Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) battery-powered semi-truck is in the news again following a leaked internal memo from CEO Elon Musk saying the company needs to go “all out” to get the truck on the road.
The memo, first reported Wednesday by Reuters, doesn’t give a production date. The current expectation is 2021 after launch delays in 2019 and this year. Limited production is expected this year, Musk said on Tesla’s first-quarter earnings call.
“It’s time to go all out and bring the Tesla...
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