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Electric truck charging: Can infrastructure keep pace with demand?

Boosted by billions of dollars for electrification, the rapidly advancing market for battery-powered commercial trucks will soon learn whether there is enough juice to begin scaling a transformation from diesel to zero tailpipe emission electric transport.

It doesn’t look good.

“We’ve got to worry about supply and demand, and we’ve got to make sure that all these things come together, and that means like now. The race is on right now,” Britta Gross, managing director of the Carbon Free Mobility...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/electric-truck-charging-can-infrastructure-keep-pace-with-demand

How to be inclusive in four not-so-easy steps

On Monday, nonprofit association Women in Trucking (WIT) announced its annual Top Companies for Women to Work For in Transportation.

The list showcases companies that took actions to not only increase the number of women in their organizations but retain and develop them into leaders as well. 

Transportation companies are judged and voted on by fellow Women in Trucking members in areas including corporate cultures, compensation, benefits, professional development and career advancements.

A recent...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-to-be-inclusive-in-four-not-so-easy-steps

Daimler’s electric trucks cross 1 million real-world driving miles

Daimler Trucks North America has recorded more than 1 million miles of real-world driving in its Class 8 and Class 6 electric trucks, letting fleets try them out in the hopes that orders will follow.

Separately, competitor Volvo Trucks on Wednesday announced its largest order to date, 100 FM Electric trucks in Europe. Volvo has delivered Class 8 VNR Electric models in California, New York and Texas.

Daimler, which had more than 40 electric trucks in evaluation fleets with NFI Industries and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/daimlers-electric-trucks-cross-1-million-real-world-driving-miles

Truck Talk: Tasty leftovers edition

This week’s Advanced Clean Transportation Expo expounded on two major electrification themes: the higher power and faster infrastructure critical to speed the adoption of battery-powered trucks, and the more rapid arrival of hydrogen-powered fuel cells, once laughed off as a science project always 10 years away.

Running a live conference during a resurgent pandemic

In Long Beach, California, this week, the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo managed to pull off a live event even as rising...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truck-talk-tasty-leftovers-edition

Nikola licenses Bosch fuel cells for module assembly in Arizona

Nikola Corp. is going all-in on hydrogen fuel cells with Bosch Group, licensing the German supplier’s technology to assemble modules for Class 7 and Class 8 heavy-duty electric trucks at its new plant in the Arizona desert.

The agreements cast doubt on the last vestige of a memorandum of understanding for Nikola (NASDAQ: NKLA) to possibly use fuel cell technology from General Motors.

“We evaluated all the options and are launching our vehicles with the fuel cell modules from this agreement,” a...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/nikola-licenses-bosch-fuel-cells-for-module-assembly-in-arizona

ACT Expo: NFI installing super-fast chargers for Southern California electric fleet

Freightliner eCascadia charging

LONG BEACH, Calif. — NFI Industries, a leader in helping manufacturers test their battery-electric Class 8 trucks, is investing nearly half of a total $38 million to create the largest ultrafast-charging electric installation in the U.S.

Working with Electrify America, a $2 billion entity created by Volkswagen as part of billions in fines and settlements paid in the aftermath of its Dieselgate emissions cheating scandal, NFI will install 34 direct current (DC) fast-chargers in Ontario,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/act-expo-nfi-electrifying-southern-california-drayage-fleet-by-2023

ACT Expo: California subsidies make battery-electric trucks a sweet fleet deal

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Schneider National Inc. liked its experience with one Freightliner eCascadia so much that it has ordered 50 of the battery-electric trucks, the biggest single purchase of the zero-tailpipe-emission tractors to date.

The Green Bay, Wisconsin-based for-hire carrier is getting a sweet deal.

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the California Energy Commission (CEC) are paying most of the $27 million cost of the Joint Electric Truck Scaling Initiative (JETSI). Announced...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/act-expo-california-subsidies-make-battery-electric-trucks-a-sweet-fleet-deal

NFI driver reflects on 30-year career, 6 million safe miles

Roger Daily has racked up 6 million safe miles as a driver for NFI

Roger Daily credits his dad’s incredible work ethic and a man named Cliff Capps for his 30-year trucking career and an impressive 6 million safe miles behind the wheel as a driver for NFI Industries.

Daily, 55, of Tampa, Florida, said he never kept track of how many miles he had driven over the years, thinking he may have had between 4 million and 5 million miles under his belt, so he was surprised when he got a call from NFI that he had reached the 6 million-mile mark. 

“I guess I work hard,” he...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/nfi-driver-reflects-on-30-year-career-6-million-safe-miles

FreightTech 25: No. 9 Daimler drives trucking’s electric future

Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) CEO Roger Nielsen declared his company’s intentions for alternative power in trucking nearly two years ago.

“The road to emissions-free transportation is going to be driven with battery-electric vehicles,” Nielsen told the ACT Expo in April 2019. “I believe the future is electric.”

Throughout 2020, the No. 9 company in the FreightTech 25 recorded hundreds of thousands of battery-powered electric miles as it prepares for regular production of electric trucks....

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/freighttech-25-no-9-daimler-drives-truckings-electric-future

PACCAR puts charge into electric trucks with infrastructure plan

Kenworth and Peterbilt expect to sell a few hundred electric trucks in coming years. They will account for less than 1% of total revenue for parent PACCAR Inc. (NASDAQ: PCAR). But bundling charging units with the trucks improves the revenue picture dramatically.

“We like to make money in everything we do,” PACCAR CEO Preston Feight said on the company’s third-quarter earnings call Oct. 20. “And that’s our model for electric vehicles (EVs) as well as for anything else we do.”

PACCAR is taking...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/paccar-puts-charge-into-electric-trucks-with-infrastructure-plan

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