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Co-founder wants TuSimple liquidated

TuSimple co-founder Xiaodi Hou has started a second autonomous trucking startup. But he is suing his former company, urging that TuSimple be liquidated and $450 million returned to shareholders, of whom he is the largest.

Suits on 3 coasts

In separate filings in courts in San Diego and Delaware, Hou claims his co-founder, Mo Chen, and CEO Cheng Lu are trying to move TuSimple’s $450 million to China. TuSimple moved its business there and has shifted its business from autonomous trucking to...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/co-founder-wants-tusimple-liquidated

Could the flux capacitor solve hydrogen storage on Class 8 trucks?

The garbage-gulping Mr. Fusion from “Back to the Future” was pure fiction, but the flux capacitor that powered Doc Brown’s flying DeLorean is real. NASA made it. The space agency licenses it. And hydrogen-powered trucks might benefit from it.

A license like no other

“I actually have a license for the flux capacitor. How many people can say that?” Michael Kramer, founder of startup Novadev, told me. “The only one who’s made a lot of money on this program so far is my patent attorney. He got paid a...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/could-the-flux-capacitor-solve-hydrogen-storage-on-class-8-trucks

The road to no-compromise renewable energy scaling

On a recent episode of Truck Tech, Alan Adler interviewed Eric Bippus, executive vice president of sales and systems development at Hexagon Agility, to outline key considerations and benefits of implementing renewable natural gas (RNG) into your fleet.

Adler noted Hexagon Agility is the nation’s largest provider of natural gas systems and tanks for heavy-duty trucks with over 100,000 RNG-powered vehicles on the road today equipped with Hexagon Agility’s technology.

Bippus began by showcasing a...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/the-road-to-no-compromise-renewable-energy-scaling

Are hydrogen combustion engines delayed or DOA?

Guidehouse Insights has published an extensive report on the global prospects for internal combustion engines powered by hydrogen. You can spend $3,950 to buy the full report and its 43 charts tracking markets for H2 ICE. Or, you can read one of the author’s perspectives below.

Hydrogen ICE study: Not that great a solution

Except for some vocational use cases in North America, a forgiving regulatory environment in Europe and a drive for energy independence in India, the idea of using gaseous or...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/are-hydrogen-combustion-engines-delayed-or-doa

RNG for heavy-duty trucks: Spec it right

On a recent episode of Truck Tech, Alan Adler dived into the dealership and customer experience for those looking to buy a renewable natural gas (RNG) Class 8 and how that fits into the Cummins ecosystem. Nathan Whittaker, new truck regional sales manager for MHC Kenworth in Greensboro, North Carolina, spoke with Adler about why heavy-duty fleets should consider RNG a priority in their decarbonization strategy. 

MHC has 10 Kenworth locations in North Carolina and 125 across 19 states, employing...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/rng-for-heavy-duty-trucks-spec-it-right

Succeeding with renewable natural gas for heavy-duty trucks

On a recent episode of Truck Tech, Alan Adler interviewed natural gas technology leaders Hexagon Agility, Cummins, and Kenworth who have partnered for more than a decade to ensure RNG heavy-duty trucks are spec’d right for duty cycle and operation, resulting in diesel-like performance. 

In the debut podcast, Alan Adler sits down with Sarah Abernethy of Kenworth, Puneet Jhawar of Cummins, and Eric Bippus of Hexagon Agility to explore how others in the heavy-duty truck space can make RNG Class 8...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/succeeding-with-renewable-natural-gas-for-heavy-duty-trucks

Hyzon focuses on US fuel cell market for survival

In its brief four-year history, Hyzon Motors has experienced far more stormy than sunny days. As it struggles to survive, the commercial fuel cell manufacturer is focusing on the U.S., where it sees hydrogen and zero-emission refuse trucks worth pursuing.

Chasing the SPAC money

A spinoff of Singapore-based Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies, Hyzon went public in July 2021 in a reverse merger with special purpose acquisition company Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Corp. It received $550 million in...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/hyzon-focuses-on-us-fuel-cell-market-for-survival

Opposition grows to speedy electric truck transition

The Advanced Clean Transportation Expo, a generally upbeat event for battery electric, hydrogen and other emission-friendly technologies, takes place next week in Las Vegas amid a growing and widespread backlash to the regulation-driven transition to electric trucks.

Nearly every stakeholder — from the trucking industry and driver organizations to state attorneys general — is weighing in with dire estimates of crippling costs to a cyclical industry. Ryder System Inc. is the latest, dissecting...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/opposition-grows-to-speedy-electric-truck-transition

SEC smackdown and SuperTruck news overwhelm convention dispatches  

The annual Work Truck Week and American Trucking Associations Maintenance & Technology Council pile on stakeholder-specific dispatches each March. But this week bigger stories originated outside the convention halls in Indianapolis and New Orleans.

The Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington is as good a starting point as any.

Lordstown Motors gets an SEC comeuppance

Nearly three years after Hindenberg Research set its sights on Lordstown Motors Corp., accusing the former special purpose...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/sec-smackdown-and-supertruck-news-overwhelm-convention-dispatches

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