battery-electric trucks

Nikola will make Plus autonomous truck technology standard in 2024

Nikola Corp. will test autonomous driving software from Plus on its battery- and fuel cell-electric trucks later this year and become the first zero-tailpipe-emission truck maker to make it standard in 2024.

Plus requires drivers in the cab as it opens up more autonomous features through its PlusDrive system. It is aiming for driverless operation. But it wants to log 8 billion miles of operation with safety drivers monitoring the technology before removing the driver.

The Plus automated driving...

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Countdown starts for hydrogen-powered trucks?

WASHINGTON — The use of hydrogen fuel cells to power electric trucks was prominently featured in a debate in the U.S. Senate over how to formulate a national low-carbon fuel standard.

Much of the discussion, which kicked off the Environmental and Public Works Committee’s first hearing of the new Congress on Wednesday, centered on not whether hydrogen fuel cells and other clean fuels should be part of reducing green-house gas (GHG) emissions but how aggressive a national standard timeline should...

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Daily Infographic: Electric Vehicle Battery Pack Costs in 2022 Are Nearly 90% Lower than in 2008

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Founder shares the back story of what happened at Romeo Power

Michael Patterson is a serial entrepreneur who has an inscribed baseball bat for every company he starts, grows and sells. His latest move: taking over 76-year-old Crane Carrier Co. to introduce battery-electric refuse trucks under the name Battle Motors. He has a bat for it too.

Serial entrepreneur flips the script

Michael Patterson has little to prove in the world of entrepreneurship. He has started and sold four companies. For each, the 54-year-old Patterson has an inscribed baseball bat...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/serial-entrepreneur-tells-back-story-of-spac-sponsored-romeo-power

An inconvenient truth about electric trucks

A few days in Germany revealed an inconvenient truth about real-world applications of battery-electric and hydrogen-powered trucks. Inadequate infrastructure, a lack of drivers and traffic congestion will frustrate meaningful expansion for sometime to come.

Jolt of electric truck reality 

A visit to the aging DB Schenker freight distribution center outside Frankfurt, Germany, injected a jolt of reality about electric trucks. The near giddiness surrounding the reveal of battery-electric and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truck-tech-deutschland-dispatches-edition

Congress approves incentive boost for EV truck purchases

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Congress on Friday passed climate legislation with tax incentives aimed at speeding adoption of medium and heavy-duty trucks, particularly those serving the last-mile delivery sector.

The U.S. House voted along party lines, 220-207, to approve the Democrat-backed Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), a $745 billion package that contains grants and incentives to reduce the cost of clean energy and healthcare, along with tax reforms.

The IRA, a pared down version of President Joe Biden’s “Build...

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Volvo Group hits Q2 trifecta of higher sales, profit and share gains

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Volvo Group checked the boxes for higher sales, profits and market share for its trucking business in the second quarter despite ongoing supply chain disruptions.

“Our customers in most regions are benefiting from high transport and infrastructure activity, which continues to drive good demand for our products and services,” Martin Lundstedt, Volvo president and CEO, said in an earnings report.

But order backlogs and lead times for new truck deliveries are long. That is forcing the Goteborg,...

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Truck Tech: Who needs infrastructure edition

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Don’t tell the companies installing electric truck infrastructure that it may not be so critical after all. California-based startup Booster is using IoT and digitization to modernize the role of fuel jobber. Speaking of infrastructure, is battery swapping due for a comeback?  

Do we really need fixed infrastructure?

Must battery-powered electric trucks have a fully developed high-speed electric infrastructure to keep them moving? What if that infrastructure were mobile? Think chargers on wheels...

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