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Real estate investors surge into electric truck charging

Somewhere around the middle of the Netflix movie “The Founder,” actor Michael Keaton’s Ray Kroc character is told that his franchise success turns on real estate, not flipping hamburgers.

The same could be said of the nascent electric truck charging business. Every electric charging depot needs land. As part of a multiprong strategy, the biggest real estate developers and a host of well-funded startups are gobbling up acreage for future sites.

The opportunity is enormous. The California Energy...

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WattEV opens public truck charging depot in Long Beach port

Nikola Tre models and WattEV chargers

Megawatt charging depots so far are behind-the-fence operations exclusive to the fleets that operate them. Truck-as-a-Service (TaaS) startup WattEV changes that when it opens its first charging-for-all installation at the Port of Long Beach.

“A lot of competitors have been talking about infrastructure, but we actually have equipment in the ground,” Salim Youssefzadeh, WattEV founder and CEO, told FreightWaves ahead of opening its first public changing depot Monday at the Port of Long Beach.

“We...

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Landing and launching terminals for autonomous trucks getting closer

Driverless trucks likely will be in limited use on some U.S. interstates as soon as late 2024. How they will be maintained between trips is a growing focus for their software developers.

Aurora Innovation appears to be farthest along in preparing for inspections, fueling maintenance and automated landing and launch of autonomous Class 8 trucks. An unremarkable frontage road location in Palmer, Texas, south of Dallas is being transformed into a terminal capable of doing for autonomous trucks...

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Schneider’s 2023 outlook better than expected

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Transportation and logistics provider Schneider National provided better-than-expected earnings...

Missteps and milestones mark 2022 in autonomous trucking

Docudrama script writers must be giddy at the “Succession”-esque tale unfolding at TuSimple Holdings. Just a year ago it leapfrogged the competition by demonstrating an 80-mile driverless truck pilot on a U.S. public highway. 

TuSimple repeated the technological feat, several times early in 2022. But then it gave way to repeated capriciousness that erased 95% of the company’s stock value. Could TuSimple be ripe for a takeover or sale to private equity? Consider:

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ATRI findings challenge quick transition to electric trucks

The stunningly big numbers tied to electric infrastructure from the American Transportation Research Institute this week reinforce the chicken-and-egg cliche about electric trucks. Yet even as they were being digested, more announcements of battery-powered trucks rolled in.

Interrupting the dream

Is it wishful thinking to imagine roadways and cities filled with near-silent trucks with no tailpipe emissions? The American Transportation Research (ATRI) analysis suggests the answer is yes. Will we...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/atri-findings-challenge-quick-transition-to-electric-trucks

Trucking companies see not-too-distant future for battery-electric trucks

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Early experiences with battery-electric fleets. 

DETAILS: Bill Bleim of NFI Industries was involved in the very early tests of Class 8 electric trucks. Bleim knows their limitations and what roles they perform best. Rob Reich of Schneider has less experience, but both companies are proving where electrified transportation fits in the heavy-duty freight world.

SPEAKERS: Bill Bliem, senior vice president of fleet services at NFI; and Rob Reich, EVP and chief administrative...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/trucking-companies-see-not-too-distant-future-for-battery-electric-trucks

La cumbre virtual de FreightWaves sobre autonomía y vehículos eléctricos cuenta con líderes del sector 

La Cumbre de Vehículos Autónomos y Eléctricos de FreightWaves deconstruye la oleada de empresas de adquisición de propósito especial que hizo que muchas startups de transporte salieran a bolsa durante la pandemia.  

Vince Cubbage, director general de Tortoise Acquisition Corp. ha hecho públicas dos de esas empresas. Está buscando un objetivo para una tercera SPAC. Cubbage será el orador principal de la segunda cumbre anual (en su mayor parte) virtual de AEV, que se celebrará el miércoles. 

Cubbage...

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FreightWaves virtual autonomous and EV summit features industry leaders

The FreightWaves’ Autonomous and Electric Vehicles Summit deconstructs the wave of special purpose acquisition companies that brought many transportation startups public during the pandemic. 

Vince Cubbage, CEO of Tortoise Acquisition Corp., has brought two of those companies public. He is seeking a target for a third SPAC. Cubbage keynotes the second annual (mostly) virtual AEV Summit on Wednesday. 

Cubbage sees a correlation between a lack of business travel during the pandemic and sports...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-virtual-autonomous-and-ev-summit-features-industry-leaders

Meet the new middlemen

Logistics and chemicals experts discuss payments technology during FreightWaves' Supply Chain Meets FinTech event.

This fireside chat recap is from FreightWaves’ Supply Chain Meets FinTech event Wednesday.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Innovating a commodity: How payments technology is reinventing the $7 trillion chemical sector.

DETAILS: Logistics and chemicals experts discuss how the speed and flexibility of payments technology can benefit a company.

SPEAKER: David Haase is the president at ChemDirect.

BIO: Haase has more than 15 years of experience in finance, business development marketing and strategy. He has also...

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