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Daimler Truck, Cummins converting Freightliner Cascadias to run on hydrogen

Rendering of Freightliner Cascadia with trailer advertising fuel cell capability

LONG BEACH, Calif. — In the clearest sign yet of Cummins Inc.’s evolution from a legacy diesel engine maker, the company will work with Daimler Truck North America to fit Class 8 Freightliner Cascadias with hydrogen fuel cells.

The announcement by Cummins CEO Tom Linebarger at the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo fills a big gap for Cummins, which has heavily invested in fuel cells and hydrogen production technology in recent years.

“End users say, ‘I’d like one of those fuel cells. Can you...

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Million-mile tested Freightliner eCascadia goes into production

Freightliner eCascaida on sloped highway backed by pine trees

LONG BEACH, Calif. — After more than a million miles of real-world customer tests, Daimler Truck North America has revealed the production version of the battery-powered Class 8 Freightliner eCascadia. 

At an Advanced Clean Transportation Expo briefing late Monday, a second-gen eCascadia drove a few feet from behind a black screen to the center of DTNA’s display. It joined an MT50e walk-in van built on a Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp. frame. An eM2 Class 6 straight truck, and a Thomas Built...

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Battery on wheels: Startup pushes new way to power autonomous trucks

Startups seeking to commercialize autonomous freight modify existing trucks with the goal of removing the driver. Newcomer Solo AVT thinks a clean sheet approach — a cabless “battery on wheels” running hub to hub with teleoperation at either end — is a better answer.  

Electrification. Autonomous trucks. A better way?

In covering trucking electrification and autonomy, it can be easy to follow the quarter turns and occasional breakthroughs from the startups that position themselves as most likely...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/startup-seeks-to-disrupt-autonomous-trucking-sector

Daimler recall inadvertently confirms new Western Star truck model

Western Star 47X in quarry

A Daimler Truck North America recall inadvertently confirmed the next addition to the Western Star X-Series of heavy-duty vocational trucks. A small number of pre-production 57X models have a defect in which part of the hood can become unglued and fall off.

Western Star has been renaming its off-highway heavy haul trucks as X-Series models. The 49X and 47X account for most of a 2,294-unit recall to replace stainless steel hood-mounted side intake covers that can come debonded from the intake....

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La llamada a revisión de Daimler confirma inadvertidamente un nuevo modelo de camión Western Star

Western Star 47X in quarry

Una llamada a revisión de Daimler Truck North America ha confirmado inadvertidamente la próxima incorporación a la serie X de camiones vocacionales pesados de Western Star. Un pequeño número de modelos 57X de preproducción tiene un defecto en el que parte del capó puede despegarse y caerse.

Western Star ha renombrado sus camiones de transporte pesado fuera de carretera como modelos de la Serie X. Los modelos 49X y 47X representan la mayor parte de una llamada a revisión de 2.294 unidades para...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/la-llamada-a-revision-de-daimler-confirma-inadvertidamente-un-nuevo-modelo-de-camion-western-star

Truck Tech: Plant anatomy edition

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How did Navistar manage to build its assembly plant in San Antonio for a relatively paltry $250 million? Partly by ignoring a famous baseball movie line. Also this week, Daimler Truck North America preps technicians to work on electric trucks. And every step van on the market could be electrified — today, a North American Council for Freight Efficiency report says.

A world of plants

Mark Hernandez sounds like the no-nonsense manufacturing expert he is. Straight out of central casting.  

But the...

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Truck Tech: Good versus the perfect edition

Is a measured approach to zero-emission trucking versus going all-in on electrification reversing the amorphism about the perfect being the enemy of the good? Also this week, add one autonomous trucking advisory board, and Cummins makes further natural gas engine inroads in a supply deal with Peterbilt.

Fooling with Voltaire

Voltaire’s memorable expression — the perfect is the enemy of the good — gets reversed when it comes to the rush to electric trucks versus a more deliberate transition from...

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Stand-alone Daimler Truck posts big numbers in 1st earnings report

Posting its first financial results as an independent company, Daimler Truck Holding AG said Thursday it sold 20% more trucks and buses in 2021 than a year earlier.

Despite supply constraints that affected major markets in North America and Europe, the Stuttgart, Germany-based manufacturer said it hit its financial targets for the year and remains on track to achieve a double-digit return on sales across its business units by 2025.

The company expects the biggest contributor — 12% — of that...

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Navistar will use Platform Science’s open architecture to enhance telematics

Navistar International is stepping up its telematics offerings to keep fleet customers in the know about what’s happening with their trucks, and the manufacturer is getting access to the data, too.

After announcing at the recent Work Truck Show that it is making its OnCommand telematics program free for five years on newly built Class 6-8 trucks and buses, the Lisle, Illinois-based Navistar named Platform Science Virtual Vehicle technology as its choice to let fleets directly access telematics,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/navistar-will-use-platform-sciences-open-architecture-to-enhance-telematics

Truck Tech: Alpha male call edition

This week, Lordstown Motors CEO Daniel Ninivaggi took umbrage to a question about leadership at the struggling electric pickup truck maker; competing trucking industry events push green agendas; and a look at the state of aftermarket parts amid the supply chain crisis.

Who’s the alpha male around here?

The final question from Bank of America Securities senior automotive analyst John Murphy to Lordstown Motors Corp. CEO Daniel Ninivaggi on the struggling electric pickup truck maker’s earnings call...

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