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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 realityA 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...
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Truck Talk: Tuning up the volume edition
This week, we talk with retiring Daimler Trucks North America CEO Roger Nielsen about hosting a generation of big name music acts; follow electric school buses in Maryland and LA; and check in on the semiconductor chip shortage. You can subscribe to Truck Talk and other FreightWaves newsletters here.
Listen to the music
Outgoing Daimler Truck North America CEO Roger Nielsen offered thoughts on a range of industry issues as he prepares to retire in April after 35 years. One thing that continues...
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Peterbilt offers teaser lease on medium-duty electric truck
Peterbilt is offering a discount on the first year of a six-year lease on its Model 220EV medium-duty battery-electric truck. It hopes to lure drivers without a commercial license to try running on electricity instead of diesel fuel.
Regional and state grants for battery-electric vehicles can be stacked with the introductory lease through PACCAR Inc.’s (NASDAQ: PCAR) PacLease subsidiary.
Neither a Peterbilt spokesperson nor a dealer in Michigan contacted by FreightWaves had pricing information....
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Mitsubishi Fuso ending truck sales in US and Canada
Mitsubishi Fuso Truck of America (MFTA) will stop selling Class 4-5 medium-duty trucks in the U.S. and Canada when it runs out of inventory, but it will continue providing parts and service for customers through at least 2028.
Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corp. (MFTBC), which manufactures commercial vehicles in Asia,, announced the move Wednesday after making the decision on Tuesday. MFTBC is a brand of Stuttgart, Germany-based Daimler Trucks.
“The decision itself was sudden,” Bryan Allen, MFTA...
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