
California and other states are scrambling to find electricity this summer amid record heat, with a growing risk of blackouts. If our power grids already can’t handle the extremes being caused by climate change, how are they going to handle the addition of battery-electric vehicles?
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Europe's leading commercial vehicle manufacturers will form a joint venture to develop a public charging network for battery-electric heavy-duty trucks by 2026.
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The American Trucking Associations has formed an advisory committee on climate and clean energy to help shape the association’s policies and actions on a number of key environmental issues.
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WattEV’s 110-acre electric truck stop in California will include 4-megawatt capability, and eventually grow to 25-MW feeding more than 40 charging bays.
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The trucking industry is still in the early stages of electrification. A significant portion of the fleet population will be electric by 2030 or 2035, but much needs to happen before then from electrical grid upgrades to improvements in battery technology. Two senior engineers at Dana outline the challenges that lay ahead on the road to electrification.
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The Department of Energy's SuperTruck 3 program will provide funding for research and development of electric and fuel-cell trucks, including a broader range of vehicles than the tractor-trailers in the first two programs.
Read More →As Congress returns to Washington this week, the debate over what, exactly, constitutes “infrastructure” is cranking up as President Joe Biden starts work to get a version of his American Jobs Plan passed.
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