battery-electric trucks

Nikola pilot plant to speed electric truck production

Nikola Corp. (NASDAQ: NKLA) will assemble electric trucks in a pilot plant on its 1-million square-foot manufacturing site in Arizona while plant construction proceeds in phases.

“It will be a hand-built, very, very low volume, very slow build,” Nikola global head of manufacturing Mark Duchesne told FreightWaves. “It allows us to gain the experience of building these trucks. [And it] allows us to get trucks to our customers as fast as possible.”

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PACCAR moves deliberately on electric and driverless trucks

PACCAR electric truck

PACCAR Inc. (NASDAQ: PCAR) isn’t rushing electric trucks to market. But it says its Kenworth, Peterbilt and European DAF brands will sell them at the right time.

“Our goal is to make sure that we’re in a position to provide our customers the lowest-operating-cost vehicles whenever the market is ready, when there’s infrastructure, when there’s regulation and when the technology is ready,” CEO Preston Feight said Tuesday.

“It’s [the] early days, and we feel like we’re really on top of it, and we’re...

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Nikola begins Badger electric pickup marketing push

Nikola Badger electric pickup

Let the marketing begin.

Nikola Corp. (NASDAQ: NKLA) likely won’t have its Badger battery-electric pickup with a fuel cell range extender for sale until 2022. But it began taking orders Monday, offering to match $5,000 deposits and guaranteeing an invitation to a reveal party in December.

With a truck giveaway, Nikola is sweetening the pitch used by and rival Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA). The industry-leading electric car maker took deposits on hundreds of thousands of its Model 3 sedans during the...

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Seven questions with high-flying Hyliion’s CEO

Hyliion CEO Thomas Healy

At 28, Thomas Healy is on his third startup company, Already named one of Forbes “30 Under 30” — three years ago — the Carnegie Mellon University graduate holds dual bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering and engineering and public policy.

As CEO of Hyliion Inc. Healy raised $52 million for his Class 8 Hypertruck ERX hybrid powertrain, which uses a renewable natural gas generator to charge an onboard electric motor that emits net negative planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.

Hyliion CEO...

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Lordstown Motors says first-year electric pickup build is sold out

Lordstown Motors sign

A commercial fleet-focused electric pickup from Lordstown Motors Corp. (LMC) is sold out for its first year – if the startup secures the $450 million needed to retool a former General Motors (NYSE: GM) car plant to make full-size trucks.

LMC revealed a prototype of its Endurance on Thursday with Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Secretary of EnergyDan Brouillette in attendance.

“I really think this is a pickup truck 2.0,” CEO Steve Burns told FreightWaves in a June 23 interview. “We think we’ve...

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Nikola sets Arizona plant groundbreaking for July 23

Nikola Tre

Nikola Corp. (NASDAQ: NKLA) will break ground on a plant in Coolidge, Arizona, on July 23 that initially will employ 2,000 workers building battery-electric Class 8 trucks.

Nikola Executive Chairman Trevor Milton on Friday. The plant, which is expected to take 12-18 months to construct, eventually will build 35,000 battery and hydrogen fuel cell electric trucks annually, a Nikola spokeswoman said.

The startup, which became a publicly traded company via a reverse merger on June 4, is competing...

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Xos electric truck startup edging toward low-volume production

Xos Trucks leaders

Despite help from a Google map on a sunny February afternoon, finding the headquarters of  Xos Trucks in North Hollywood, California, was not easy. Block letters on a window to the left of the building’s recessed entry was the only signage.

Most Xos employees work from home these days because of the coronavirus pandemic. A few workers test battery packs and perform other duties in the back of the building, whose neighbors include an auto repair garage and a thrift shop.  

Though unintentional,...

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Musk – time for Tesla Semi to get on the road

Tesla Semi

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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