Navistar International LT

Navistar’s new internal combustion engine will be its last

Navistar LT with trailer on track at Las Vegas International Speedway

LAS VEGAS — Navistar Inc.’s S13 integrated powertrain for its on-highway trucks is the manufacturer’s last new internal combustion engine. It is the strongest signal yet that legacy truck makers are embracing electric trucks with zero tailpipe emissions.

Combined with aerodynamic styling, the new powertrain that goes into production in July 2023 offers up to 15% better fuel efficiency than the current A26 engine and Eaton Cummins Endurant transmission in Navistar’s flagship on-highway...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/navistars-new-internal-combustion-engine-will-be-its-last

Navistar recalls certain LT tractors due to improper battery cable wiring

Navistar Inc. is recalling 2,804 of its flagship International LT tractors across five model years because improper battery cable wiring in specially upfit trucks can lead to a fire.

The suspect population is identified by vehicles that the Navistar Truck Specialty Center (TSC) upfitted between February 2017 and February 2022 with a 1500W Purkeys inverter system. Similar vehicles are unaffected.

The positive battery cable to the inverter may chafe on the side skirts of the vehicle. Over time,  an...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/navistar-recalls-certain-lt-tractors-due-to-improper-battery-cable-wiring

TuSimple may sell autonomous truck business in China to boost share price

TuSimple Holdings shares, battered since announcing a sudden leadership change earlier in March, rebounded Wednesday after Reuters reported the autonomous truck developer may offload its autonomous trucking business in China.

TuSimple (NASDAQ: TSP), which leads the commercialization of autonomous trucking in the U.S., hasn’t talked much about its China business, which focused on deepwater ports near Shanghai. TuSimple is in talks to sell the unit for up to $1 billion, Reuters said, citing three...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/tusimple-may-sell-autonomous-truck-business-in-china-to-boost-share-price

U.S. Xpress takes on Aurora as a 2nd autonomous trucking collaborator

Aurora Innovation Inc. will collaborate with U.S. Xpress Enterprises Inc. to sift the best lanes for driverless trucking as Aurora fine-tunes its system for commercialization.

Working with U.S. Xpress (NYSE: USX) is interesting because the Chattanooga, Tennessee-based carrier has deep ties with rival TuSimple Holdings as an investor, adviser and likely customer for International LT Class 8 tractors that TuSimple (NASDAQ: TSP) is developing with Navistar.

But since for-hire trucking firms use...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/us-xpress-takes-on-aurora-as-a-2nd-autonomous-trucking-collaborator

TuSimple will make driverless testing permanent en route to commercialization

Autonomous trucking software developer TuSimple will make driverless runs permanent as it gets closer to commercializing autonomous trucking on the nation’s freeways.

“Driver-out proves we are feature complete, which means our autonomous driving system has all the capabilities required for true driver operations along commercial routes. And that it is able to safely mitigate or contain all the edge cases during operations,” CEO Cheng Lu told analysts on the company’s Q4 earnings call after...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/tusimple-will-make-driverless-testing-permanent-en-route-to-commercialization

TuSimple will haul ‘driver out’ intermodal freight loads for Union Pacific

TuSimple, which conducted its first driverless freight run in late December, is moving up its autonomous trucking commercialization plans to late 2023, including intermodal operations with Union Pacific in the Port of Tucson in Arizona this spring.

San Diego-based TuSimple Holdings (NASDAQ: TSP) said Tuesday it has completed seven trips of about 80 miles each with no one in the cab from the Port of Tucson to the Phoenix area. The collective 550 miles had no teleoperations or special traffic...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/tusimple-will-haul-driver-out-intermodal-freight-loads-for-union-pacific

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