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Truck Talk: Tasty leftovers edition

3 September 2021

This week’s Advanced Clean Transportation Expo expounded on two major electrification themes: the higher power and faster infrastructure critical to speed the adoption of battery-powered trucks, and the more rapid arrival of hydrogen-powered fuel cells, once laughed off as a science project always 10 years away.

Running a live conference during a resurgent pandemic

In Long Beach, California, this week, the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo managed to pull off a live event even as rising...

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Is heavy-duty fuel cell trucking almost ready for prime time?

19 February 2021

Here’s what we know about hydrogen-powered fuel cells for heavy-duty trucking:

They are not in commercial production.
Onboard hydrogen storage is far less efficient than battery-powered trucks.
Heavy-duty truck fuel cell adoption is projected to be just 2.5% by 2030.
Battery-electric truck proponents call fuel cells unflattering names.

.None of that has changed. Yet, something seems different.

For starters, car and truck makers and Tier 1 suppliers are investing billions of dollars in fuel cell...

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Global Supply Chain Week Day 4 preview: Automotive

12 February 2021

Lessons from the pandemic are helping business leaders face current challenges in the global automotive supply chain.

On Feb. 25, Automotive Day of FreightWaves’ Global Supply Chain Week, CEOs and business leaders will share what keeps them up at night. And what makes them scurry during the workday. Overcoming halted production last spring and investing in keeping workers protected from COVID-19 infection is a shared experience.

Guests include Mark Duchesne, head of global manufacturing at...

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Upbeat PACCAR raises truck production estimate

27 January 2021

A rebounding U.S. economy should help sustain the recent growth in new truck orders, PACCAR Inc. (NASDAQ: PCAR) CEO Preston Feight said Tuesday.

“Basically the truck industry is doing pretty well,” Feight said on a call with analysts following the release of fourth-quarter earnings. “We don’t expect that to change. Truck utilization is high. We’re even starting to see signs of green shoots in the oil and gas industry. All of that combined points to a good year for us in the U.S. and Canada.”

The...

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Republic Services cancels refuse truck order from Nikola

23 December 2020

Republic Services (NYSE: RSG) has canceled an order for 2,500 battery-electric refuse trucks from Nikola Corp. (NASDAQ: NKLA), raising new questions about the electric truck startup’s ability to generate revenue to keep its business plans alive.

Development of the trucks based on the Nikola Tre would take too long to develop and cost more than expected, Nikola said in a press statement Wednesday.

The goal of the collaboration with Republic was to design and build an industry-first fully...

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Daimler clicks collective 500,000 miles on electric truck odometers

11 November 2020

Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) electric trucks clicked over the half-million mile mark on the collective odometers as the company’s 38 battery-powered test models rack up real-world route coverage in Southern California.

Ten Class 8 eCascadias in the Freightliner Electric Innovation fleet perform port drayage runs for NFI Industries out of Chino, California. Twenty eCascadias and eM2 models with Penske Truck Leasing and its customers deliver food and commercial goods regionally.

Freightliner’...

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