Autocar Trucks

GM to provide hydrogen fuel cells for heavy-duty work trucks

General Motors Co. and Autocar Industries announced a collaboration to create a range of zero-emissions heavy-duty vehicles powered by GM’s Hydrotec power cubes.

The heavy-duty trucks are expected to go into production in 2026 at the Autocar plant in Birmingham, Alabama, starting with roll-off and dump trucks and cement mixers. Autocar will also eventually produce refuse trucks and terminal tractors using Hydrotec power cubes.

Autocar trucks with GM’s Hydrotec fuel cells will be built to order...

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FreightWaves Classics: Autocar builds severe-duty trucks

A new Autocar tractor sits proudly, ready to go to work. (Photo: Autocar)

GVW Group LLC is an industrial holding company founded in 1993. It invests in, grows and provides strategic expertise for “scalable early stage, high growth and mid-sized businesses.”

The industries it currently has holdings in include manufacturing, distribution, technology, big data, engineering and energy efficiency.

The company bought Autocar and the Xpeditor truck model from Volvo Trucks North America in 2001 and formed Autocar, LLC, a company that began in Pittsburgh in 1897. Autocar’s...

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Truck Talk: Making the case edition

This week, we’re looking at the meaning of electric trucks delivering groceries, autonomous trucks delivering watermelons and other “firsts” trying to make the case for advanced transportation technologies. And a sort of contrarian view on both.

Proving their mettle

Individually, claims of being first don’t always add up to being newsworthy. But taking a step back to consider the “points on the board” being scored by startup autonomous and electric truck companies may tell a different story.

Consid...

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Meritor readies integrated electric powertrain for heavy-duty trucks

Meritor Inc. (NYSE: MTOR) will begin producing a fully integrated all-electric powertrain for heavy-duty trucks, freeing up space for additional batteries while cutting up to 800 pounds from the weight of a conventional chassis.

“We’re not just bolting that onto our axle. We’re integrating it, and that saves space and it saves weight,” said John Bennett, Meritor vice president and chief technology officer. “To do that effectively and reliably is no small task.”

Bennett claims the Blue Horizon...

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