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Diesel distancing propels alternative fuel options
Renewable natural gas, battery-electric and hydrogen-powered trucks all target fleets switching from diesel ahead of coming regulations requiring costly additional emissions after-treatment. Which alternative will win? Possibly all of them.
Vouchers make first Nikola fuel cell trucks ‘cheaper than a diesel’Back in 2018, Anheuser-Busch placed an initial order for up to 800 Nikola fuel cell trucks. Ever so slowly, that is becoming a reality.
After numerous missteps and setbacks, Nikola produced 42...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/diesel-distancing-propels-alternative-fuel-options
Torc tackles beyond-the-truck autonomous issues
How will the “personas” of dispatchers, maintenance technicians and roadside assistance change as autonomous trucks arrive? Torc Robotics is working with major fleets to find out.
Torc differs from its major competitors in preparing to launch fully integrated autonomous Freightliner Cascadias into commerce.
The independent subsidiary of Daimler Truck moves deliberately. Aurora Innovation and Kodiak Robotics target late 2024 for their first commercial routes with driverless trucks. Torc is looking...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/torc-tackles-beyond-the-truck-autonomous-issues
TuSimple begins catch-up on financial filings
TuSimple filed the first of four late financial documents this week. It’s easy to see why the autonomous truck software developer gave up freight hauling. It cost more than twice as much as it was seeing in revenue. And the company has just 250 U.S. employees after two rounds of layoffs and a refocus on Asian markets.
While other startups ran afoul of Nasdaq listing rules because their share price fell below $1 for more than 30 consecutive trading days, TuSimple found another way to get put on...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/tusimple-begins-catch-up-on-financial-filings
Is Range Energy’s electrification push the future of trailers?
Making the cooling units on refrigerated trucks run on electricity instead of diesel saves fuel and reduces emissions. Startup Range Energy is betting investor money that trailer electrification can do more than just prevent liquified ice cream from arriving at the grocery store.
“What we’re doing is bringing all of the electrification that you see happening in vehicles and in power units to the trailer,” said Ali Javidan, Range Energy founder and CEO and former head of vehicle prototyping at...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/is-range-energys-electrification-push-the-future-of-trailers