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Toyota will use fuel cell ‘emissions’ to supply a car wash

Emissions from a FuelCell Energy plant will help supply water for a car wash for incoming Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles at the Port of Long Beach, California.

It is one of three renewable energy uses at Toyota’s port vehicle processing center. The company claims it is the first to use 100% renewable electricity generated on site.

Toyota and FuelCell Energy Inc. claim the plant models how stationary fuel cell technology can reduce emissions from commercial operations.

Danbury, Connecticut-based...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/toyota-will-use-fuel-cell-emissions-to-supply-a-car-wash

Daimler Truck flexes financial muscle a year after going solo

BOSTON — Daimler Truck is promising more shareholder value and forecast revenue growth of 40%-60% in the second half of the decade as it transitions from diesel trucks to zero-emissions powertrains in its major markets.

In its first Capital Markets Day since splitting off from Daimler AG and former parent Mercedes-Benz in December 2021, Daimler Truck executives took analysts through their plans while affirming financial goals for 2025.

Daimler Truck North America (DTNA), known internally as Truck...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/daimler-truck-flexes-financial-muscle-a-year-after-going-solo

Hyundai’s Xcient positioned for instant US fuel cell truck leadership

Like a political candidate running unopposed, Hyundai Motor will passively assume U.S. leadership in hydrogen-powered fuel cell trucks next year when 35 Xcient models arrive in California.

Hyundai has competition in the zero-emission trucking space. But none is likely to match the South Korean automaker. It has worked on fuel cell technology since 1998. And it and fielded its first fuel cell vehicle, a 160-kilowatt bus, in 2005.

The Xcient essentially doubles the 90-kW fuel cell stack technology...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/hyundais-xcient-positioned-for-instant-us-fuel-cell-truck-leadership

An inconvenient truth about electric trucks

A few days in Germany revealed an inconvenient truth about real-world applications of battery-electric and hydrogen-powered trucks. Inadequate infrastructure, a lack of drivers and traffic congestion will frustrate meaningful expansion for sometime to come.

Jolt of electric truck reality 

A visit to the aging DB Schenker freight distribution center outside Frankfurt, Germany, injected a jolt of reality about electric trucks. The near giddiness surrounding the reveal of battery-electric and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truck-tech-deutschland-dispatches-edition

Bosch investing $200M to make hydrogen fuel cells for Class 8 trucks

Convoy of Nikola Tre Alpha fuel cell trucks

German automotive supplier Robert Bosch will invest more than $200 million and add up to 350 jobs to expand an Anderson, South Carolina, facility to build hydrogen-powered fuel cells for heavy-duty truck makers starting in 2026.

Bosch currently supplies fuel cell technology to startup Nikola, which plans to begin production of its fuel cell electric Tre cabover truck in 2023. It plans a fuel cell sleeper cab for long-haul later. Nikola licensed Bosch technology to assemble its own fuel cell...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/bosch-investing-200m-to-make-hydrogen-fuel-cells-for-class-8-trucks

Aurora applying robot truck lessons to robotaxis that once led driverless parade

Before autonomous startups decided to field autonomous trucks before driverless cars, passenger vehicles had an edge in attention and investment. Now it is the lessons learned from robotic trucks that are being applied to Aurora Innovation’s ride-hailing robotaxis.

Aurora (NASDAQ: AUR) is one of two competitors in autonomous truck development that started with autonomous car projects. The other is Alphabet subsidiary Waymo and its trucking offshoot Waymo Via, which evolved from the original...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/aurora-applying-robot-truck-lessons-to-robotaxis-that-once-led-driverless-parade

Kenworth triplica los pedidos de camiones eléctricos en 3 meses

Nota del editor: Aclara las relaciones sobre la carga, la infraestructura y el apoyo a las subvenciones en el decimocuarto párrafo

SUNNYVALE, California – Los pedidos de camiones eléctricos a batería para cargas medias y pesadas de Kenworth Truck Co. se han triplicado en los últimos 90 días, ya que las flotas aprovechan los incentivos para compensar el coste inicial y añadir capacidad de cero emisiones antes de la próxima normativa sobre cuotas de ventas.

Las versiones eléctricas del K270 de...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/kenworth-triplica-los-pedidos-de-camiones-electricos-en-3-meses

Hydrogen players lay groundwork for fueling-speed parity with diesel

Key players in hydrogen fueling, including Shell, Nikola Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp, have reached agreement on standard hoses and nozzles that will put filling a fuel cell truck on par with the time it takes to refuel a diesel truck.

Hydrogen already has a speed advantage over battery-electric trucks (BETs), which take longer to recharge than it takes to fill a hydrogen-powered fuel cell truck. Fuel cell electric truck (FCET) backers point to the adoption of common equipment and a filling speed...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/hydrogen-players-lay-groundwork-for-fueling-speed-parity-with-diesel

Nikola licenses Bosch fuel cells for module assembly in Arizona

Nikola Corp. is going all-in on hydrogen fuel cells with Bosch Group, licensing the German supplier’s technology to assemble modules for Class 7 and Class 8 heavy-duty electric trucks at its new plant in the Arizona desert.

The agreements cast doubt on the last vestige of a memorandum of understanding for Nikola (NASDAQ: NKLA) to possibly use fuel cell technology from General Motors.

“We evaluated all the options and are launching our vehicles with the fuel cell modules from this agreement,” a...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/nikola-licenses-bosch-fuel-cells-for-module-assembly-in-arizona

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

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