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Peterbilt Model 579EV.
Videosby Jack RobertsMay 12, 2025

Peterbilt's New Electric Trucks

Peterbilt has introduced its Model 579EV and Model 567EV electric trucks for vocational and regional-haul applications. Join HDT at the Texas Motor Speedway for an up-close look at the new trucks and a few laps around the track!

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Peterbilt 2025 model lineup.
Newsby Jack RobertsApril 17, 2025

Peterbilt's New Trucks and Technology Upswing

New general manager Jake Montero said a raft of new products and new technologies both in -- and outside of -- its trucks have Peterbilt positioned for strong grown in 2025.

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Articlesby Vesna BrajkovicMarch 16, 2022

Quantix Preps for Electric

Quantix is prepping to receive two of the first production Peterbilt Model 579 electric trucks in April 2022. See what it's taken to get this far.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 6, 2022

Peterbilt Showcases First Model 579 with Aurora Driver

Peterbilt unveiled the first Model 579 equipped with the Aurora Driver Level 4 advanced autonomous system during the CES 2022 convention in Las Vegas.

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Photo Galleriesby Jack RobertsOctober 21, 2021

Peterbilt Shows Off Vocational, Medium-Duty Trucks [Photos]

Check out this photo gallery of what Peterbilt's vocational dealers saw in the high desert on the Utah border at the Gateway Canyon Resort in Gateway, Colorado, from trucks to antique cars to beautiful scenery.

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Newsby StaffAugust 23, 2021

Peterbilt Delivers 579EVs to California Drayage Operation

Peterbilt delivered 10 electric Class 8 Model 579EVs to Shippers Transport Express to use in the company's drayage operations at the Port of Oakland.

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Newsby Deborah LockridgeApril 27, 2021

Yellow Buying More than 1,200 Peterbilt Model 579 Trucks

Yellow Corp. is refreshing its fleet with an order of 1,222 Peterbilt Model 579 trucks, the largest single-year order Peterbilt has ever had of trucks spec’ed exclusively with a Paccar powertrain.

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Newsby StaffApril 27, 2021

A&R Logistics To Be One of First to Deploy Peterbilt 579EV

The new trucks are expected to be on the road later this year, which would make A&R one of the first to put the electric vehicles into service.

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Articlesby Deborah LockridgeFebruary 8, 2021

Peterbilt Chief on EVs, Autonomous Tech and the New Model 579

Peterbilt just culminated a five-year development process with the launch of its New Model 379 Class 8 truck – but it’s far from the only thing the company has been working on. We talked to General Manager Jason Skoog about the new truck, electrification, and autonomous technology.

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Photo Galleriesby Jack RobertsFebruary 4, 2021

Peterbilt's New Model 579 in Photos

Peterbilt has unveiled its first major upgrade to the Model 579 highway tractor since its launch in 2012. Senior Editor Jack Roberts visited Peterbilt's Denton, Texas, manufacturing plant, took a New Model 579 test drive and attended the virtual launch of the new truck. Here's what he saw.

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