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Mack starts early builds of medium-duty trucks

Mack MD early production

Mack Trucks is building early units of its new medium-duty MD Series trucks in a former comic book publishing plant near Roanoke, Virginia.

It will begin full production at the newly formed Roanoke Valley Operations begins Sept. 1. That’s because the coronavirus pandemic delayed the original start of production in July.

Mack, a unit of Sweden’s Volvo Group, invested $13 million to convert the plant to make its first medium-duty truck in nearly two decades. The MD Series takes grille and hood...

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PACCAR moves deliberately on electric and driverless trucks

PACCAR electric truck

PACCAR Inc. (NASDAQ: PCAR) isn’t rushing electric trucks to market. But it says its Kenworth, Peterbilt and European DAF brands will sell them at the right time.

“Our goal is to make sure that we’re in a position to provide our customers the lowest-operating-cost vehicles whenever the market is ready, when there’s infrastructure, when there’s regulation and when the technology is ready,” CEO Preston Feight said Tuesday.

“It’s [the] early days, and we feel like we’re really on top of it, and we’re...

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Navistar to sell driverless semis in 2024

Navistar-TuSimple driverless trucks

Navistar is shaving up to five years off the industry timeline for autonomous semis, partnering with self-driving technology leader TuSimple to sell International-branded driverless trucks in 2024, the companies said Wednesday. 

Navistar International Corp. (NYSE: NAV) took an undisclosed minority interest in startup TuSimple, and could increase its stake over time.

“Autonomous technology will have a profound impact on our customers’ business,” said recently named Navistar President and CEO...

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Tesla tops Toyota as world’s most valuable transportation company

Tesla Cybertruck

Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) climbed over Toyota Motor Corp. Corp. (NYSE: TM) as the world’s most valuable transportation company on Wednesday, July 1 as pre-orders for its angular Cybertruck exceeded the past two years’ deliveries of its electric vehicles.

Wedbush Securities reported 650,000 Cybertruck orders as of June 22, surpassing the 612,120 deliveries of Tesla’s Model S, X and 3 in 2018 and 2019, according to the weekly financial digest Finbold.

The current number of Tesla Cybertruck orders,...

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Daimler Trucks sets up fuel cell subsidiary

Daimler Truck fuel cell leaders

Daimler Truck AG is assembling its fuel cell expertise in a new subsidiary as a forerunner to a 50-50 joint venture with rival Volvo AB that will make fuel cell-powered backup systems for data centers and eventually hydrogen-fueled heavy-duty trucks.

“We will now bring together the great expertise and enormous wealth of experience from several decades of development work on fuel cells at Daimler – and combine it with the right know-how in connection with trucks,” Daimler Truck AG Chairman Martin...

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Port of LA, Toyota and Kenworth partner for zero-emissions trucks

The Kenworth T680 on-highway flagship was the featured Class 8 truck at a major, zero emissions trucking event that featured more than 100 participants from government, industry, local community and the media held Monday, April 22, at the Port of Los Angeles.

Kenworth Truck Company and Toyota Motor North America are collaborating to develop 10 zero-emissions Kenworth T680s powered by Toyota hydrogen fuel cell electric powertrains. The first new, jointly developed Kenworth / Toyota Fuel Cell...

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