Peterbilt Model 579EV

Peterbilt launches zero-emission vehicles at ACT Expo

Peterbilt launches zero-emission vehicles at ACT Expo

(Photo: Thomas Wasson/FreightWaves)

ANAHEIM, Calif. – OEM Peterbilt recently announced the release of a broad range of zero-emission vehicles at ACT Expo. These include the-next generation Model 579EV and an all-new Model 576EV, the industry’s first electric heavy-duty conventional vocational truck, according to the company.

“The Next-Generation Model 579EV and the All-New Model 567EV demonstrate our ongoing

commitment to design and manufacture...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/peterbilt-launches-zero-emission-vehicles-at-act-expo

Electric trucks should shake off setbacks in 2024

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Meaningful volume growth eluded heavy-duty electric trucks last year for several reasons: Charging...

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Autonomous trucking: ‘What’s love got to do with it?’ 

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Lior Ron is a fan of autonomous trucking. You might even say the head of Uber Freight loves the idea...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/autonomous-trucking-whats-love-got-to-do-with-it

Kodiak Robotics tests electric powertrain in autonomous truck

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ANAHEIM, Calif. — It’s the peanut butter and the chocolate of freight hauling — combining an...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/kodiak-robotics-tests-electric-powertrain-in-autonomous-truck

Werner aligns with Aurora in latest autonomous experiment

Werner truck on highway

Werner Enterprises, ever game for testing new technology, is aligning with Aurora Innovation Inc. to test supervised long-haul freight on a 600-mile stretch across Texas.

Werner’s name was missing from last week’s announcement that the Aurora Driver Beta 2.0 autonomous system was going for weekly long-distance pilot runs from a new terminal in Fort Worth to one in El Paso, a nine-hour journey.

The freight-dense corridor between Atlanta and Los Angeles is ideal for eventual driverless runs. Most...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/werner-aligns-with-aurora-in-latest-autonomous-experiment

ACT Expo notebook: Peterbilt’s math lesson and Volvo’s big day

A reporter’s notebook from the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo in Long Beach, California

Like coins dropped into a jar at the end of the day, the number of heavy-duty electric trucks continues to grow by nickels, dimes and quarters. But measuring success requires more than counting up pocket change.

Peterbilt Motors General Manager Jason Skoog gave a math lesson about battery-electric and hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric trucks during a keynote address Tuesday. 

“Today’s diesel trucks are...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/act-expo-peterbilts-math-lesson-and-volvos-big-day

Port of Oakland tests drayage with Class 8 Peterbilt electric trucks

Ten Class 8 Peterbilt Model 579EVs running drayage in the Port of Oakland illustratrate two facts of heavy-duty electrification:

  1. Class 8 Battery-electric trucks are for real.
  2. They only work where infrastructure is in place to charge them.

Shippers Transport Express (STE) has both working for it in a three-month demonstration. 

“With the recent completion of the charging infrastructure at the Port of Oakland, right now is the perfect time to put our 10 Peterbilt Model 579EVs into service and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/port-of-oakland-tests-drayage-with-class-8-peterbilt-electric-trucks