Truck Tech: Plant anatomy edition

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How did Navistar manage to build its assembly plant in San Antonio for a relatively paltry $250 million? Partly by ignoring a famous baseball movie line. Also this week, Daimler Truck North America preps technicians to work on electric trucks. And every step van on the market could be electrified — today, a North American Council for Freight Efficiency report says.

A world of plants

Mark Hernandez sounds like the no-nonsense manufacturing expert he is. Straight out of central casting.  

But the...

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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

Mission Possible Aims To Accelerate Pathways for Decarbonization

Run by the World Economic Forum, Energy Transitions Commission, Rocky Mountain Institute, the We Mean Business coalition, the “Mission Possible Partnership” aims to accelerate several pathways for decarbonizing heavy industry and transport by unifying the critical actors needed to influence and enable industry transformation at speed and scale, says an article published in Business Green.

Christoph Wolff Comments

Christoph Wolff, Head of Mobility, World Economic Forum said :

“Public private...

https://mfame.guru/mission-possible-aims-to-accelerate-pathways-for-decarbonization/

Run on Less demonstration plugs into electric vehicles

Electric trucks from vans to semi-tractors are the subjects of the next Run on Less demonstration by the North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE).

The first two Run on Less exercises focused on how to improve the fuel efficiency of diesel-powered heavy-duty trucks in long-haul and regional use.

The NACFE Run on Less-Electric (RoL-E) study with the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) will seek to show what technology works and what needs work in battery-powered electric vehicles and the...

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Here’s where electric trucks make sense

Electric truck grid

If you operate a regional-haul trucking fleet in California or the Northeast, it’s time to start considering electric trucks. That is a high-level takeaway from a new report released on Monday by the North American Council on Freight Efficiency (NACFE) and its project partner, the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI).

The Guidance Report, “High-Potential Regions for Electric Truck Deployments,” was co-written by RMI Freight and Transport Associate Jessie Lund and NACFE Executive Director Mike Roeth....

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