TRATON SE

Truck Tech: Taken for a ride edition

This week, Paccar whittles down its red tag inventory. Two Nikola hydrogen-powered fuel cell trucks take a test ride, but to where? Tesla shows multiple Semis but is mum on production.  Mack Trucks gets predictive with its automated manual transmission. And the best of the rest.

Red tag sale

Paccar Inc., the first automaker to build and park trucks during the semiconductor shortage, made some nice progress in whittling down its so-called “red tag” inventory in Q4. About 7,000 of 10,000 trucks...

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Truck Tech: Autonomous perspectives edition

Welcome back to Truck Tech. This week, we’re unpacking the recent CES panel discussion I moderated that featured autonomous truck developer TuSimple, its manufacturing partners Navistar and Scania, and Nicole Nason, a veteran administrator of federal highways and previously the nation’s top safety regulator. 

Autonomous trucking’s challenges

Taking stock of the challenges facing autonomous trucking led to some unexpected observations around route planning, infrastructure, the driver shortage and...

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Traton continues remake of Navistar, swapping executives between subsidiaries

Volkswagen AG’s Traton SE is continuing its makeover of recently acquired Navistar International, importing a MAN SE executive to lead commercial operations and dispatching a top Navistar executive to the German company’s corresponding position.

Interestingly, both Goran Nyberg, who begins at Navistar as executive vice president of commercial operations March 1, and Friedrich Baumann, who will join MAN as head of sales and customer solutions April 1, have expertise with Traton’s trucking...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/traton-continues-remake-of-navistar-swapping-executives-between-subsidiaries

Can Kodiak Robotics compete with the big boys of autonomous trucking?

Kodiak Robotics is one of several Silicon Valley autonomous trucking software developers. But it gets less attention than players that started earlier. It also lacks the fundraising and manufacturer partnerships that competitors have.

TuSimple’s public trading debut, the reputational credit given to Google-backed Waymo Via and partner-rich Aurora Innovation crowd out Kodiak. China-backed Plus generates significantly more headlines. More recently, Embark Trucks has, too.

“I think the technology...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/can-kodiak-robotics-compete-with-the-big-boys-of-autonomous-trucking

Truck Talk: Marriage and divorce edition

This week, we’re looking at the final preparations before Navistar becomes part of TRATON SE and Daimler Truck escapes being lumped in with Mercedes-Benz luxury cars. Also, two views of fuel cells and hydrogen and a not-quite-Oprah-like giveaway.

Wedding gift

Getting married brings big changes. Sometimes one spouse brings college or other debt into a union. Something like that is playing out as Navistar International Corp. (NYSE: NAV) draws closer to its merger with Volkswagen AG’s TRATON SE (8TRA...

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