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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

Freightliner SuperTruck II looks for technology life after research

LAS VEGAS — For the $20 million it spent on the Freightliner Cascadia SuperTruck II program, Daimler Truck North America expects some of the advanced technology to find its way into production.

That’s what happened after SuperTruck I, an $80 million split between DTNA and the Department of Energy that ran between 2010 and 2015. The DOE matched DTNA’s $20 million for SuperTruck II.

The investment from the first SuperTruck program paid off. Current generation Freightliner Cascadias have a...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightliner-supertruck-ii-looks-for-technology-life-after-research

Paccar recalls 76,492 trucks because digital dash can freeze

Paccar Inc. is recalling 75,492 late-model Peterbilt and Kenworth trucks because the digital dash can freeze, preventing the system from updating and increasing the chance of a crash.

About 1% of recalled trucks probably have the issue, Paccar told the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Affected 2022 and 2023 models include the Kenworth T680, T880 and W990 and the Peterbilt 365, 367, 389, 567 and 579. 

Paccar found 57 warranty claims from May 2021 to September 2022 related to the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/paccar-recalls-76492-trucks-because-digital-dash-can-freeze

Embark Trucks taps industry advisers on path to AV commercialization

SAN FRANCISCO — SPAC-sponsored Embark Trucks is adding more than 150 years of cumulative industry experience to its preparations for going public, assembling a strategic advisory board that touches all transportation industry sectors.

Embark is not the first autonomous trucking software startup to tap into the industry. TuSimple Holdings (NASDAQ: TSP) went public in April, the first of four autonomous trucking companies to seek public trading. TuSimple has a large group of advisers, many of whom...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/embark-trucks-taps-industry-advisers-on-path-to-av-commercialization

ACT Expo: Shell Starship 2.0 — a diesel intruder at an electric truck show

LONG BEACH, Calif. — In the 1987 film “The Untouchables,” the late actor Sean Connery sarcastically accused a would-be assailant of bringing “a knife to a gunfight.”

The presence of the diesel-powered Shell Starship 2.0 at this week’s Advanced Clean Transportation Expo is a sort of metaphor for the famous scene, a pivotal moment in the Prohibition-era crime drama.

Diesel fuel is no more the point of Shell’s futuristic technology test bed for freight efficiency than the knife-wielding mobster who...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/act-expo-shell-starship-20-a-diesel-intruder-at-an-electric-truck-show

Camera monitoring systems gain fleet favor as adoption grows

Mario Gafencu wishes the Stoneridge Inc. MirrorEye Camera Monitor System (CMS) was around when he was rolling up 2.5 million accident-free miles as a professional driver. His first 20-mile drive on a snowy January day last year was all the evidence he needed.

“Regardless of all the road spray from all the vehicles on the road that day, my view of the traffic around my vehicle was clear and unobstructed,” Gafencu recalled. ” I was no longer guessing and hoping that a vehicle was not in that right...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/camera-monitoring-systems-gain-fleet-favor-as-adoption-grows

Kenworth, Peterbilt electric trucks qualify for California rebates

Peterbilt and Kenworth medium-duty electric trucks each qualify for a $95,000 clean truck incentive in California. But there’s a catch. The Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project (HVIP) doesn’t have any money right now.

The PACCAR Inc. (NASDAQ: PCAR) siblings announced inclusion in the HVIP program this week. Workhorse Group (NASDAQ: WKHS) said July 28 that its new C-Series electric delivery van being produced in Union City, Indiana, qualified for the HVIP.

The California...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/kenworth-peterbilt-electric-trucks-qualify-for-california-rebates

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