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One of the world’s largest OEMs to back California and Biden transportation electrification goals

The weekly DOE/EIA average retail diesel price rose 5.8 cents a gallon Monday to $2.441 a gallon. That’s the highest one-week increase in prices since September of last year when Hurricane Dorian was impacting oil markets.  The increase also brings the weekly price up to the highest level since Aug. 31 of this year  when […]

People aren’t going out as much and that is putting a small but notable squeeze on one part of ambitious renewable fuel plans

Nine California state legislators send letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom urging him to take a technology-neutral approach to decarbonizing medium- and heavy-duty trucking.

The weekly Department of Energy/Energy Information Administration average retail diesel price released Monday, the basis for most fuel surcharges, rose 1.1 cents to $2.383 per gallon. Here’s a scorecard of some oil price moves in recent days.  — The DOE/EIA price from a week earlier, $2.382 per gallon, was the lowest DOE/EIA price since August […]

The incoming Biden administration is expected to increase regulatory oversight of electric and self-driving vehicles.

Ryder is a major seller of used trucks. So it was notable that in its quarterly earnings report, it said the amount of money it was getting from the sale of used trucks was better than its estimates and that the market had been a pleasant surprise. To talk about the market for used trucks, […]

A Canadian trucking and logistics company has put money down on 150 Tesla Electric Semis in what could be the biggest big rig order yet for the electric vehicle company.

Beset by poor margins, refiners have announced closures and are expecting a lot more in the not-too-distant future

But margins made on those diesel sales were down from 2Q and last year

California air quality chief on short list to helm Biden EPA; 125 zero-emission models in production; LA mayor seeks proposals on zero-emission drayage technology.

Zero-emissions credit sales drive Tesla profitability; heavy-duty truck manufacturers to access REC markets

The maker of fuel-efficiency technology for heavy-duty trucks bets on logistics software and the carbon markets.

Drop in stocks relative to demand was the biggest ever in the latest report; demand figures finally seem to be reflecting strong trucking market

Also on this week’s edition: diesel did something last week it hasn’t done in at least 30 years.

The Western States Hydrogen Alliance will focus on maximizing rollout of hydrogen fuel cell electric technology across multiple commercial sectors in 13 Western states.

The groups say more federal oversight is needed for the transport of liquefied natural gas by rail.

Soon after Dave Ables took over as president and CEO of Dart Transit Co. and as the first days of the pandemic receded into a strong freight market, he knew there was a problem: retaining and attracting drivers. So the Minnesota-based company put through an increase in compensation on several different fronts. It wasn’t just […]

A “dance floor” inside the driver’s cabin for easy movement.  Exterior cameras linked to a digital display inside the cabin, giving the driver a 360-degree view outside the vehicle. Those are just two of the features in Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) highly anticipated new custom electric delivery van designed and built in partnership with electric vehicle […]