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Truck Tech: Electric incentives edition

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The supply is running low. But getting in on California’s free money for electric truck purchases is still doable. Also, Walmart lays out its plan for sustainable over-the-road trucking. And Kodiak Robotics shows the ease of maintaining autonomous tech on its fourth-generation truck.

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It’s no secret that a Class 8 electric truck can cost three times as much up front as a...

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Freightliner computer brain thefts hit drivers, dealers and auctions

Combo of damaged interior of Freightliner Cascadia with the computer brain removed.

Larry Gilliam returned to Norfolk, Virginia, from a drayage run to Georgia on Monday to find one of his trucks with a hole punched in the passenger-side window. He thought a thief wanted to steal the radio from his 2105 Freightliner Cascadia.

Then he looked closer. The dash had been pried open. Wiring jutted from a gaping hole where the truck’s common powertrain control module (CPC) used to be. 

The brute force brain surgery left Gilliam’s truck immovable. It is one of hundreds of similar thefts...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightliner-cascadia-computer-brain-thefts-widespread

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

Se prevé que los camiones y autobuses automatizados alcancen los 1,2 millones en 2032

TuSimple autonomous truck on highway

Se espera que el número de camiones y autobuses automatizados crezca desde prácticamente cero este año hasta 1,2 millones en 2032, según un nuevo análisis de mercado de Guidehouse Insights.

Se prevé que la cuota de mercado global alcance algo más del 19% en 2032. China liderará el mercado con una cuota del 38,5%. Se espera que Norteamérica y Europa alcancen una cuota del 26% y el 29%, respectivamente, según el informe elaborado por Sam Abuelsamid, analista principal de Guidehouse.

El patrón de...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/se-preve-que-los-camiones-y-autobuses-automatizados-alcancen-los-12-millones-en-2032

Automated trucks and buses projected to reach 1.2 million by 2032

TuSimple autonomous truck on highway

The number of automated trucks and buses is expected to grow from practically zero this year to 1.2 million by 2032, according to new market analysis by Guidehouse Insights.

The overall market share is projected to reach just over 19% by 2032. China will lead the way with a 38.5% share. North America and Europe are expected to reach 26% and 29% shares, respectively, according to the report authored by Sam Abuelsamid, a Guidehouse principal analyst.

The hockey-stick pattern of automated trucks — a...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/automated-trucks-and-buses-projected-to-reach-12-million-by-2032

Exclusive: Watching Waymo build autonomous Freightliner Cascadias

DETROIT — Manufacturing of Waymo Via robot-driven Freightliner Cascadias, part of the future of long-haul trucking, resides in a century-old industrial building on St. Aubin Street where Chevrolet Gear & Axle operated in the mid-20th century heyday of General Motors. 

But you wouldn’t know it from the sign outside. There isn’t one.

Before the subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet Inc. arrived in 2019, the complex housed American Axle & Manufacturing, a 1990s startup that took over five axle plants...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/exclusive-watching-waymo-build-autonomous-freightliner-cascadias

Waymo Via partners with C.H. Robinson to explore small fleet autonomy

Waymo Viawill add loads from third-party logistics giant C.H. Robinson to its pilot runs on Interstate 45 in Texas as the two companies partner to figure out how to make autonomous trucking work for small fleets.

Waymo Via is bringing the trucks, Freightliner Cascadias outfitted with the Waymo Driver Level 4 high-autonomy robot driving system. Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based Robinson (NASDAQ: CHRW) is contributing its Navisphere connected logistics platform used to track much of the $21 billion in...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/waymo-via-partners-with-ch-robinson-to-explore-small-fleet-autonomy

Hyzon Motors tips to lower-than-expected fuel cell truck revenue

Hyzon Motors Inc., the fuel cell truck manufacturer spun out of Singapore’s Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies into a SPAC merger in the U.S., will report lower-than-expected revenue and profit margins for its first year despite slightly exceeding projected hydrogen-powered fuel cell truck deliveries.

Rochester, New York-based Hyzon (NASDAQ: HYZN) was one of few companies producing fuel cell-powered trucks for sale in 2021. It delivered 87 specialty trucks ranging in weight from 39,600 pounds to...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/hyzon-motors-tips-to-lower-than-expected-fuel-cell-truck-revenue

Trucking braces for uphill cost climb in 2022

After taking advantage of unexpected cost savings and profit windfalls caused by a historic pandemic, the trucking industry is already facing an uphill climb that could result in carriers closing shop.

“With costs increasing in diesel fuel, driver compensation and equipment purchase/leasing, carriers are likely to face higher operational costs in 2021 and 2022,” according to the to the latest analysis on trucking expenses released Tuesday by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI).

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https://www.freightwaves.com/news/trucking-braces-for-uphill-cost-climb-in-2022

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