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Alternative power: Page 7

Perspectives
Electrifying commercial vehicles will hit consumer pocketbooks
Regulations from CARB and the EPA "will put extraordinary pressure on the commercial fleet industry to purchase very expensive, early-stage vehicles, raising transportation costs that will ultimately be borne by consumers everywhere."
July 18, 2024
Battery electric truck charging sign
Battery electric
Navigating the 'messy middle': Beyond rare earth magnets in future propulsion
Heavy rare earth magnets provide the most efficient motors, but there is a lot of concern about the availability of critical minerals and the resources and the ability to mine them.
July 16, 2024
battery material mining
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Alternative power
Cummins receives $75M grant to boost ZEV production
The company will match with its own $75M investment to convert some of its production space for zero-emissions components and electric powertrain systems. Also: Cargo theft down in second quarter but still above 2023 numbers.
July 15, 2024
Cummins sign
Test Drives
Peterbilt powered by Cummins' X15N natural gas engine: How does it compare to diesel?
Cummins' X15N natural gas engine is its latest, greatest and biggest natural gas engine.
July 5, 2024
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Alternative power
Shippers don't care about trucking's green transformation
Nearly two-thirds of fleet leaders polled by CCJ said a shipper has never asked about their fleet's environmental goals, or the use of zero emissions trucks.
July 1, 2024
semi truck at a warehouse
Alternative power
BEVs: Looking under the hood, into the future
“Every mile counts for a BEV, so component efficiency and reduced heat generation can be vital to extending the range of the battery and the vehicle,” says Derek Mankin from Timken.
June 24, 2024
A man works on a truck at Volvo's New River Valley plant.
Battery electric
The VNL Electric will be Volvo Trucks' battery-electric future in North America
The forthcoming VNL Electric will replace the VNR Electric as Volvo Trucks' primary battery-electric vehicle platform in North America. Sales are expected to begin in late 2025.
June 21, 2024
Volvo VNL Electric Prototype
Battery electric
Why aren’t more carriers using heavy-duty electric trucks?
Rental and leasing demand for heavy duty electric trucks isn't very high.
June 21, 2024
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Alternative power
Battery-electric development outpaced charging infrastructure deployment, says Volvo Trucks VP
Volvo Trucks North America vice president Keith Brandis reflects on lessons learned from the introduction of the company's battery-electric VNR tractors and the progress towards a future hydrogen refueling infrastructure.
June 18, 2024
Volvo hydrogen combustion
Alternative power
Trucking technology without borders
The volume of cross-border truck traffic is small compared to total freight traffic in the U.S., but it is a significant economic factor with respect to U.S. economics.
June 18, 2024
Mexico border patrol
Alternative power
Another California port announces zero emission plan
Port of Hueneme aims to make operations zero emissions by 2030.
June 14, 2024
Port of Hueneme
Alternative power
Nikola's CEO and software chief provide exclusive walkthrough of improved BEV 2.0
Nikola CEO Steve Girsky and Ryan May, head of software & controls, are here to give you a detailed walkthrough and discussion about the company's BEV 2.0 cab-over semi.
June 12, 2024
Nikola BEV 2.0 at 2024 ACT Expo
Alternative power
RNG-fueled trucks ‘most compelling carbon reduction strategy,’ says Hexagon Agility VP
Renewable natural gas (RNG) producers opened over 150 new facilities in 2023, making it a record year in which 91% of new natural gas projects generated RNG. Another 175 projects expected to be ready by year's end.
June 11, 2024
Hexagon Agility CNG-fueled semi truck displayed at ACT Expo
Alternative power
IMC takes emissions out of peel pile sort
IMC Logistics, the largest marine drayage company in the U.S., has taken its smart peel pile process to the next level: zero emission.
June 10, 2024
SmartStack
Alternative power
California 2 years ahead of schedule on ZEV truck transition, CARB says
A new report from CARB says the state's medium- and heavy-duty ZEV sales numbers are well ahead of schedule through 2023. Also: High-value shipments increasingly targeted by cargo thieves.
June 10, 2024
Freightliner electric truck charging
Trucks
Chevy’s New Electric 2024 Silverado RST Boasts 440-Mile Range, 754 HP
Chevy calls the fully loaded EV pickup – with $95,000 price tag – its most powerful Silverado.
June 6, 2024
2024 silverado ev rst on dirt road
Alternative power
The business of EV headlines
Electrification is a topic that infuriates some and energizes others, but it's news either way.
June 4, 2024
Bev Charging Sign
Components
The trucking industry could show the rest of the U.S. a thing or two about recycling
Just more than 30% of all consumer trash is recycled, but just one trucking component routinely is more than times that.
June 3, 2024
recycling
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Business
Texas Supreme Court overturns nuclear verdict against Werner
The state's highest court said the "sole substantial factor" that led to a fatal 2014 crash was not the fault of Werner nor its driver, but that of the pickup truck driver who lost control, crossed a median and struck the Werner truck.
Mack Trucks reintroduced its Anthem model Tuesday as 'the new standard of regional haul.'
Trucks
'Brand new' Anthem reintroduced as Mack's regional haul truck
At Yale University in the mid-1960s, Fred Smith conceived the idea for an integrated air-to-ground system that would ensure overnight delivery, a concept that would eventually become Federal Express.
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Regulations
Gallon-based user fee provides sustainable infrastructure funding
20250603 Mack Trucks Donates Electric Refuse Chassis To Río Hondo College To Advance Heavy Duty Ev Training
Alternative power
California doubles down on emissions regulations, starts work on next generation rules
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