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Electric truck recalls begin to mount — albeit in small numbers

The number of affected vehicles is barely noticeable — until you count the number of recall campaigns. Electric trucks are having early life quality problems.

The latest of 10 electric truck recalls in the past three months was reported on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website Monday. It involves the loss of power to 82 Freightliner eCascadia Class 8 trucks. The electronic axles may have insufficiently welded planetary gear sets.

E-axles and planetary gear sets are components...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/electric-truck-recalls-begin-to-mount-albeit-in-small-numbers

Nikola gets boost to European fuel cell truck business

A German provider of integrated energy solutions has signed a letter of intent to purchase 100 hydrogen-powered trucks from Nikola Corp. It is the startup’s first prospective European customer for Nikola Tre fuel cell electric vehicles.

A letter of intent is not the same as a purchase order. But it boosts Nikola’s manufacturing joint venture with Iveco in Ulm, Germany. That’s where the trucks would be built for delivery in 2024 and 2025.

GP Joule, based in Reussenkoege, Germany, wants the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/nikola-gets-boost-to-european-fuel-cell-truck-business

Volvo VNR Electric stakes early Class 8 leadership claim

Green Volvo VNR Electric

DUBLIN, Va. — The interior of the Class 8 Volvo VNR Electric truck won’t wow you with sleekness. It is utilitarian, practically unchanged from its 2016 introduction. But substituting batteries for an internal combustion engine provides a ride as quiet as any competitor and a single-charge driving range exceeding most.

My strongest takeaway from driving two laps around the private track at Volvo’s manufacturing complex was how energy from slowing down on curves returns to the battery. It is a...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/volvo-vnr-electric-takes-the-pole-among-zero-emission-class-8-trucks

Embark autonomous and BYD electric trucks demo the future

Light blue BYD cabover in foreground. Blue Embark autonous truck in background preparing for a drop and hook of a trailer of HP Inc. computer printers.

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — Inside a gated parking lot adjacent to a metal scrap business and surrounded by fully grown palm trees, a demonstration of the future of drayage for autonomous trucks played out on a partly cloudy spring morning.

Autonomous software developer Embark Trucks brought one of its Peterbilt 579 sleeper cabs equipped for a supervised run to the Phoenix suburb of Tolleson, Arizona. A 53-foot trailer with a half-load of HP Inc. printers arrived in near silence except a toot of...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/embark-autonomous-and-byd-electric-trucks-demo-the-future

Nikola posts first, albeit tiny, gross profit on electric truck chargers

Aerial view of Nikola plant with solar panels

Nikola Corp. posted its first-ever gross profit in Q1, a milestone for the electric truck maker that also recorded 134 heavily incentivized orders from fleets planning to operate in California.

The startup electric truck maker began regular production of its battery-electric Class 8 Tre BEV cabover on March 21. Nikola shipped 11 trucks at the end of April to dealers to fulfill customer orders.

Forty preproduction trucks built in Q1 are being used by dealers as demonstration units. Univar Solutions

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/nikola-posts-first-albeit-tiny-gross-profit-on-electric-truck-chargers

Nikola launches regular production of Class 8 battery-electric trucks

Nikola Tre electric truckson production line

COOLIDGE, Arizona — It is the plant that skeptics said would never be built by a company that would never survive.

Nikola refuted its skeptics on Wednesday, lining up nearly a dozen regular production battery-electric Class 8 trucks for shipment to customers from the first phase of a $600 million plant in the desert between Phoenix and Tucson.

“We’ve been a pre-revenue startup for years,” CEO Mark Russell said at a production launch event. ”We’re now going to be a revenue-producing company, and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/nikola-launches-regular-production-of-class-8-battery-electric-trucks

Truck Tech: Good versus the perfect edition

Is a measured approach to zero-emission trucking versus going all-in on electrification reversing the amorphism about the perfect being the enemy of the good? Also this week, add one autonomous trucking advisory board, and Cummins makes further natural gas engine inroads in a supply deal with Peterbilt.

Fooling with Voltaire

Voltaire’s memorable expression — the perfect is the enemy of the good — gets reversed when it comes to the rush to electric trucks versus a more deliberate transition from...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truck-tech-good-versus-the-perfect-edition

Truck Tech: Taken for a ride edition

This week, Paccar whittles down its red tag inventory. Two Nikola hydrogen-powered fuel cell trucks take a test ride, but to where? Tesla shows multiple Semis but is mum on production.  Mack Trucks gets predictive with its automated manual transmission. And the best of the rest.

Red tag sale

Paccar Inc., the first automaker to build and park trucks during the semiconductor shortage, made some nice progress in whittling down its so-called “red tag” inventory in Q4. About 7,000 of 10,000 trucks...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truck-tech-taken-for-a-ride-edition

Nikola retira la demanda de 2.000 millones de dólares contra Tesla por infracción de patentes

Nikola Corp. ha retirado su demanda de 2.000 millones de dólares por infracción de patentes contra Tesla Inc. después de meses de inactividad que llevaron a un juez federal a poner prácticamente fin al caso de casi 4 años de duración para las dos empresas.

Las empresas han acordado retirar todas las reclamaciones y contrademandas contra la otra, según una presentación conjunta el martes en el tribunal federal de San Francisco, confirmó el miércoles Nikola (NASDAQ: NKLA).

El caso ya estaba en...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/nikola-retira-la-demanda-de-2-000-millones-de-dolares-contra-tesla-por-infraccion-de-patentes

Nikola drops $2B patent infringement suit against Tesla

Nikola Corp. has dropped its $2 billion patent infringement suit against Tesla Inc. after months of inactivity that led a federal judge to all but end the nearly 4-year-old case for the two companies.

The companies have agreed to withdraw all claims and counterclaims against each other, according to a joint filing Tuesday in federal court in San Francisco, Nikola (NASDAQ: NKLA)  confirmed Wednesday.

The case was already on shaky ground, facing a dismissal in U.S. District Court in San Francisco...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/nikola-drops-2b-patent-infringement-suit-against-tesla

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