Following a tour of the Mack Trucks Lehigh Valley assembly plant in Pennsylvania, President Biden called for changes to enforcement of the Buy American Act and emphasized American-made manufacturing to secure critical supply chains.
Companies such as UPS and FritoLay will have to wait a little longer for their all-electric Tesla Semi Class 8 trucks, as a second-quarter earnings report pushed production out to 2022.
Mercedes-Benz Trucks is developing the battery-electric eEconic for municipal operations in multiple intensive trial series.
Plans are in place to build a first-of-its-kind all-electric refrigerated delivery vehicle.
Hyundai is bringing more than 30 of its hydrogen fuel-cell electric heavy-duty trucks to California as part of two publicly funded demonstration projects, which it says will be the largest deployment of Class 8 hydrogen-powered fuel cell trucks in the country.
Although there are still no certified electronic logging devices available to meet new Canada’s new ELD mandate, its government has added a third body approved to do those certifications.
Air Products will work with Cummins to convert its global fleet of approximately 2,000 trucks to hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles and help accelerate the overall growth of hydrogen fuel cell trucks.
Nearly half the commercial trucks operating in EPA Regions 9 and 10 are now powered by the newest-generation of Near-Zero Emissions diesel engines, according to analysis by the Diesel Technology Forum.