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Battery electric
TA breaks ground on truck charging station
The travel center operator is installing four 400-kW chargers and one 1-MW charger at its Ontario, California, location. Also: Longtime Mack Trucks dealer Vision Truck Group recently opened a new facility in Brantford, Ontario, Canada.
July 26, 2024
Natural gas
Allison, Cummins test fully-automatic transmission with nat-gas X15N
The companies, along with a California-based fleet, tested Allison's 4000 Series fully-automatic transmission with Cummins' X15N 15-liter natural gas engine. Also: ATA's Executives Council gets new leadership; shippers' conditions improved in May.
July 25, 2024
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Test Drives
Alternative fuel efficient: Peterbilt's 579 with Cummins' X15N nat gas engine
More than a decade after its demise, big natural gas power is back.
July 19, 2024
Alternative power
Let’s get real about long haul
Before arguing about the feasibility of long-haul technology, we should probably agree on a definition of long.
July 18, 2024
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Alternative power
Another California port announces zero emission plan
Port of Hueneme aims to make operations zero emissions by 2030.
June 14, 2024
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
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
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
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Heartland Express will integrate and rebrand CFI U.S. operations by year-end
Drivers will remain in their current trucks but will have the option to choose from pay packages available in the legacy Heartland fleet or transfer to other subsidiaries, including Millis Transfer and Smith Transport.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Hogan Transports acquired by vehicle rental conglomerate
Workforce
Carriers share insight into driver pay
Insurance
Frequency of lawsuits, size of jury verdicts against motor carriers rising
Business
USPS contractor 10 Roads going out of business
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