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PACCAR puts charge into electric trucks with infrastructure plan
Manufacturers take varied approaches to avoiding the chicken-and-egg conundrum of electric trucks. PACCAR is selling and financing them with leases for battery-powered trucks.
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Trucking
Sticks and carrots drive heavy-duty electric truck adoption
Greenhouse gas regulations are the sticks and incentives are the carrots in driving the heavy-duty truck and commercial vehicle industry to embrace electrification.
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Trucking
Class 8 engine sizes shrink as emissions rule changes loom
The engine displacement in Class 8 commercial tractors is expected to drop in coming years as stricter federal emissions standards take effect in the next…
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Sustainability
Natural gas truck sales surge even as electric trucks get the hype
The rise and fall of interest in natural gas trucks typically depends on the price of oil. Now, the availability of clean energy credits in…
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News
California clean tech coalition endorses “transforming trucking” legislative package
“Our members consider the legislation a betrayal. They complied with the Truck and Bus rule and now face the specter of being told it’s not…
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Equipment
Tyson Foods to test opposed-piston technology engine
Tyson Foods will be testing a tractor that will utilize Achates Power’s opposed-piston engine technology that is said to reduce NOx emissions by 90% from…
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