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.
To demonstrate its capabilities as an electrification powertrain supplier, Cummins showed a concept Class 8 day cab, featuring a hybrid fuel cell-battery electric drivetrain.
Hyundai offered a sneak-peek at a futuristic, hydrogen-powered Class 8 tractor at the North American Commercial Vehicle Show and confirmed it is considering entering the North American Class 8 market with the vehicle.
This year's slowdown in truck sales, the rapid pace of technological change, and Kenworth's fuel-cell electric truck project were the highlights of Kenworth's remarks to reporters at the North American Commercial Vehicle Show.
Within just 20 years, the world's biggest truck maker wants to offer only CO2-neutral trucks in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Cummins and Hyundai are teaming up to develop and commercialize electric and fuel cell powertrains, starting with the North American commercial vehicle market.
Battery- and fuel-cell-powered electric trucks are new to the market. Can different technologies find a home, or will a single winner emerge?
Hydrogen-electric truck maker Nikola has entered into an exclusive strategic partnership with a major global truck builder “to accelerate industry transformation toward [the] emission neutrality of Class 8/heavy-duty trucks in North America and Europe through the adoption of fuel-cell technology.”
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.
The three-year Alberta Zero-Emissions Truck Electrification Collaboration project will see two hydrogen fuel cell electric trucks pulling loads of up to 140,000 pounds on 430-mile round trips between Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta, beginning next year.