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Truck electrification is much more than picking a charger

13 October 2023

You can buy a charger for an electric vehicle from any number of suppliers. But it’s an incomplete purchase without knowing when the charger is operating, how much juice it can put out at a given time and whether or not it’s occupied.

“The last conversation I’m having is ‘Let’s pick the right hardware, how to deploy it cost effectively, and let me help you operate it so you get the SLA (service life agreement) you want,” Rich Mohr, ChargePoint Holdings Inc. senior vice president for North...

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3 legacy manufacturers unveil medium-duty electric trucks

8 March 2023

The medium-duty field for electric trucks grew by four new entries on Wednesday as Mack Truck, Isuzu and Hino Trucks revealed battery-powered models.

All three made their announcements at the NTEA Work Truck Week industry trade show in Indianapolis.

For Mack, the MD electric joins its lineup of Class 6-7 medium duties it assembles in Roanoke, Virginia, where Mack reentered the medium-duty market in 2020 after a two-decade hiatus. Mack builds a Class 8 LR Electric refuse hauler in Pennsylvania.

“Thi...

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Truck Talk: ‘Look, Ma, no hands’ edition

26 March 2021

This week, we’re cleaning up after a flurry of news in the autonomous vehicle space and seeing the first concrete evidence that the chips are down for truck manufacturers.

Construction alert

One went public. One went virtual. Another expanded in China. After an unusually busy week in the autonomous vehicle space, what could possibly be left to talk about?

Let’s start with construction zones. They present a vexing yet all-too-frequent challenge for designers of perception software expected to be...

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Cummins’ B6.7 engine to power new Isuzu Class 6, 7 trucks

12 February 2021

Isuzu's Shaun Skinner speaks at Work Truck Show

Isuzu Commercial Truck of America said its 2022 F-Series trucks will come equipped with the Cummins (NYSE: CMI) B6.7 diesel engine for the U.S. and Canadian markets. The combined truck and engine package is the first product globally from the Isuzu Cummins Powertrain Partnership (ICPP).

The B6.7, which has been produced by Cummins for nearly 40 years, allows Isuzu to expand into Class 7. Combined with a recent announcement of the start of production of its Class 5 gas engine models, the new...

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