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All That's Truckingby Deborah LockridgeNovember 7, 2019

Looking into Trucking's Future with DTNA's Roger Nielsen

Battery-electric trucks and fuel-cell electric trucks will exist side by side – and sooner than you may think, predicted Daimler Trucks North America chief Roger Nielsen in a short interview with Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge.

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Newsby StaffNovember 7, 2019

Mercedes-Benz Electric Truck Testing Returns Promising Results

Mercedes-Benz has been testing its all-electric eActros commercial trucks in real-world usage for about a year. So far, it has received positive feedback for using the electric vehicles in short range distribution applications.

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Newsby Deborah LockridgeOctober 29, 2019

Peterbilt Looks to 2020: Electric Trucks, Vocational Sales, Uptime Initiatives

Projecting to end 2019 with near-record Class 8 market share and record-setting medium-duty market share, Peterbilt is looking to the strength of the vocational market for 2020 to help it continue that success, while adding new uptime-related initiatives and planning to have electric trucks in production by the end of next year.

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Newsby David CullenOctober 29, 2019

Navistar Unwraps Electric Truck

The OEM revealed a prototype for a battery-electric drive version of its International MV medium-duty truck, dubbed the eMV, which is slated to come to market by early 2021.

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Newsby David CullenOctober 25, 2019

Daimler to Offer Carbon Neutral Trucks by 2039

Within just 20 years, the world's biggest truck maker wants to offer only CO2-neutral trucks in the U.S. and elsewhere.

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Newsby StaffOctober 23, 2019

Eaton Teases Electric Truck Transmission Ahead of NACV Show

Eaton said its new four-speed electrified vehicle transmission operates at higher speeds than its traditional internal combustion gearbox counterparts, with gears optimized for typical electric motor performance and power curves for maximum efficiency.

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Articlesby Jim ParkOctober 22, 2019

Q&A: NACFE's Rick Mihelic Talks About the Size, Weight and Cost of Batteries

Rick Mihelic, director of future technology studies for the North American Council of Freight Efficiency (NACFE), talks with Equipment Editor Jim Park on the economics of truck batteries.

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Newsby David CullenOctober 7, 2019

Volvo to Sell Electric Class 8 Truck in the U.S. by End of 2020

The battery-electric version of Volvo Trucks North America’s VNR Class 8 regional hauler— dubbed the EVNR-- is now slated “to go on sale at the end of 2020,” according to VTNA President Peter Voorhoeve.

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Articlesby Jim ParkSeptember 4, 2019

Will Future Trucks Be Powered by Batteries or Fuel Cells?

Battery- and fuel-cell-powered electric trucks are new to the market. Can different technologies find a home, or will a single winner emerge?

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Newsby Jack RobertsAugust 21, 2019

Freightliner Delivers First eCascadia Electric Trucks

Daimler Trucks North America presented the keys to its first two production eCascadia battery-electric tractors to Penske and NFI on Aug. 21 in Napa Valley, California.

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