King County receives first electric truck, a new Kenworth T680E at the Kenworth Renton manufacturing plant. The truck is designed for pickup and delivery, regional haul and drayage applications, and is available as a day cab…
Lack of chips still hindering truck plants. Semiconductor shortages are still interfering with efforts by truck manufacturers to produce enough trucks to fulfill customer order commitments – and truck makers may not be able to meet…
Sysco orders 800 electric trucks and plans to deploy up to 800 battery-electric Freightliner eCascadia Class 8 tractors by 2026. Freightliner eCascadias along with refrigerated trailers will play a significant role in achieving its science-based climate goal to electrify 35% of its U.S. fleet by 2030.
2 firms widen autonomous trucking. Aurora Innovation and FedEx will add an additional commercial lane to their autonomous commercial line-haul trucking pilot, which transports FedEx shipments in Texas. In March 2022, Aurora’s autonomous trucks…
US Xpress joins Embark network to make autonomous trucks a reality and plans to add its terminals to the Embark coverage map. This partnership marks a significant milestone by adding a fleet’s properties into an autonomous truck developer’s transfer point network.
Cummins unveils 15L hydrogen engine at ACT Expo in Long Beach, Calif., in May. Built on Cummins’ new fuel-agnostic platform announced earlier this year, it’s expected to go into full production in 2027. Cummins also plans to release a 6.7L hydrogen engine.
For most truckload carriers operating outside of California, the potential of battery-electric, heavy-duty trucks is theoretical. Benore studying electric trucks and gathering data to see how it can turn EV operations into reality in the Southeast.
Half of trucks could become electric, report says roughly half of all U.S. and Canadian Class 8 tractors engaged in regional-haul applications could switch to battery-electric technology today with minimal or no impact on operations, productivity, or efficiency.
Rand McNally acquires Fleetsu and its flexible platform, in a move to elevate its place in the connected vehicle space according to a joint announcement. The transaction combines Rand McNally’s fleet business with Fleetsu’s platform,…
Third-party logistics firm CEVA Logistics partnered with self-driving trucking company Kodiak Robotics on what the companies said was the first autonomous freight delivery in Oklahoma. With routes originating in Dallas-Fort Worth, running to Oklahoma City, OK and Austin,TX.
Tesla opened its Austin, Texas-based Gigafactory in April, a crucial step in the company’s delayed plans to begin production of its electric Cybertruck. To celebrate the opening, Tesla held an event, billed as a “Cyber Rodeo”
Daimler Truck North America (DTNA) is laying the foundation to form a joint venture to design, develop, install and operate a nationwide, high-performance charging network for medium and heavy-duty battery-electric and hydrogen fuel cell trucks…
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