A Big Week for Electric Trucks
Did the tide just turn from "theoretical" to "eventual" on electric truck deployment in North America? HDT Senior Editor Jack Roberts thinks so.
January 31, 2020
Did the tide just turn from "theoretical" to "eventual" on electric truck deployment in North America? HDT Senior Editor Jack Roberts thinks so.
January 31, 2020
Meritor's T.J. Reed, global vice president of electrification, talks to HDT about the company's recent acquisition of TransPower and the state of electric commercial vehicles.
January 23, 2020
The world’s fifth largest economy is about to bet big on electric trucks.
December 19, 2019
A "messy middle" period of new alternative-fuel technology trials has already begun, a new report says. In a couple of decades, fleets will be moving freight in a zero-emissions mode both profitably and productively, it predicts.
December 10, 2019
DHL Express has begun testing new, improved versions of the electric StreetScooter Work and Work L delivery trucks in Europe. A North American evaluation program is planned as well.
December 10, 2019
At a recent conference at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, Shell presented an array of speakers who sized up the state of alternative fuel technologies in trucking and a likely timeline for real-world adoption of these new means of moving freight.
November 27, 2019
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.
August 21, 2019
Akasol is one of Europe’s largest supplier of battery systems for commercial vehicles with hybrid-electric or all-electric drives and is now moving into the North American commercial vehicle market.
August 2, 2019
At the end of the day, says Senior Editor Jack Roberts, an electric truck is simply just a truck. And while they may have a different propulsion system than conventional powertrains, the positives they offer many fleets outweigh the negatives.
March 22, 2019
Dana hosted a test drive of trucks outfitted with its latest technology at TMC’s annual meeting in Atlanta.
March 20, 2019
The Lion Electric Co. showed off its first all-electric Class 8 urban truck at the American Trucking Associations' Technology & Maintenance Council annual meeting in Atlanta March 19, saying it will be commercialized this fall.
March 19, 2019
Naysayers scoffed at Elon Musk's claims that the Tesla Semi Truck would be capable of some long-haul runs, but the company is already showing it to investors across the country. Did the tech guru just prove them wrong?
August 30, 2018
HDT's Jack Roberts gets behind the wheel of one of Volvo's new electric trucks in Sweden, as Volvo shows that electric truck technology is ready to go to work in some real-world fleet operations.
June 21, 2018
Thor Trucks COO Giordano Sordoni says electric trucks are a surprisingly good fit for the majority of Class 8 operations today.
May 24, 2018
The first-ever Guidance Report issued by NACFE seeks to clear the air on both the myths and realities of battery electric vehicles in fleet operations today and in the near future. Blog commentary by Jack Roberts.
May 9, 2018