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Daimler will buy electric truck battery modules from Chinese supplier CATL
Daimler Trucks and Buses has entered a long-term supply agreement for lithium-ion batter technology for its coming range of electric trucks.
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Volvo shows Class 8 electric truck for California partnership
Volvo Trucks North America (VTNA) is on track to deliver five Class 8 VNR electric trucks to California for its multi-partner Low Impact Green Heavy…
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Volvo Trucks imports Dynamic Steering technology from Europe (VIDEOS)
Volvo Trucks will offer its Dynamic Steering system as an option in 2020. Volvo says it reduces the strain of maneuvering a heavy-duty truck steering…
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Class 8 truck production cuts intensify as market slackens
Class 8 truck manufacturers are beginning to pare production as the backlog of record orders from 2018 shrinks and new orders continue to be slow.
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Daimler Trucks begins Level 4 autonomous testing on public roads
Daimler Trucks is moving closer to its goal of commercially producing Level 4 autonomous trucks with public road testing in Virginia.
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Additional suppliers reveal investments in Nikola’s fuel cell-electric trucks
Nikola Corp. revealed two more funding sources of its heavy-duty fuel cell truck on Thursday, September 5. German supplier Robert Bosch LLC and South Korean…
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Navistar crushes third quarter revenue and profit projections
Navistar International Corp. blew past revenue and earnings estimates for its third fiscal quarter. It is reducing production but expects to gain market share in…
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Video: Volvo unit conducts Japan’s first Level 4 autonomous trucking demo
U.D. Trucks, the Japanese unit of Swedish truck maker AB Volvo. conducted the first test of an Level 4 autonomous truck in the island nation.…
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CNH Industrial takes $250 million lead in Nikola’s Series D round
Nikola Corp. expects to raise more than $1 billion in its Series D runding raising. That starts with London-based CNH Industrial that invested $250 million…
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Mack Defense submits armored heavy dump truck for U.S. Army testing
The U.S. Army is conducting live-fire testing on an armored heavy-duty dump truck from Mack Defense, the first of up to 683 trucks included in…
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