Class 8 electric trucks

A California carrier made history Thursday by using an electric truck to haul freight across the U.S.-Mexico border.

Electric trucks and charging infrastructure should advance this year without some of the growing pains that held them back in 2023.

Forum Mobility joins a growing number of startups planning multiple megawatt charging facilities serving California drayage.

An electric vehicle charger without data intelligence on when it is available and operating is like a hot dog without a bun.

The production of electric trucks is still so small that it’s easy to overlook the hundreds subject to recall campaigns.

Nikola has a minimum of 180 days to get its share price above $1 or it could be delisted from the Nasdaq.

The epicenter for electric trucks in Southern California is so far a small part of the massive Velocity Truck Centers.

As their populations grow, Class 8 electric trucks are proving as susceptible to safety recalls as diesel-powered units.

Truck-as-a-service startup Forum Mobility enters a $400 million joint venture to establish electric drayage truck charging sites.

The Volvo VNR Electric lacks a nifty interior, but two extra battery packs add serious range on a single charge.

Volvo Trucks North America is making vehicle as a service mandatory for buyers of its Class 8 electric trucks.

Daimler Truck CEO Martin Daum has strong opinions on cabovers versus conventional trucks, fuel cells and other issues.

Rusty Rush not only operates more truck dealerships than anyone on the planet, he also knows technology. And he has opinions on just about everything. So, buckle up. It’s Rush hour. 

The Class 8 Tesla Semi electric truck created the market for battery-powered freight movement. Is production edging closer?

Pilot Co. will build a public network of high-speed charging stations with General Motors to get ahead of electric vehicle charging demand.

Twin SPAC backer ArcLight Capital is investing $50 million in a truck-as-a-service business that handles Class 1-8 vehicles.

Nikola Corp. adjourned its annual meeting Wednesday after too few investors voted on a proposal to raise the number of shares in the electric truck maker.

Startup Xos Trucks introduced full-fledged heavy- and medium-duty electric chassis cabs, signifying its graduation from a powertrain component integrator.

Nikola is helping to bring electric infrastructure companies to the Arizona desert where it has begun production of electric trucks.

Electric truck maker Nikola projects it will build 300-500 battery-electric trucks this year and post up to $150 million in revenue.

With a growing stack of letters of intent, Nikola approaches player status in electric trucks if its demonstration units meet performance requirements.

Nikola and Volvo bag new orders for electric trucks as the industry transition to zero tailpipe emissions gains momentum.

Fleetmaster Express recently ordered 10 Volvo VNR Electric Class 8 trucks to transition from a diesel fleet to an electric one.

The similarities of solving fleet challenges helped Rich Mohr decide to leave Ryder System after 25 years to join ChargePoint.

Confident that the indictment of founder Trevor Milton won’t lead to legal trouble, Nikola focuses on supply challenges.

Nikola puts FreightWaves in the passenger seat of a battery-electric Class 8 daycab nearing production in Arizona.

Nikola’s top five executives are taking $1-a-year salaries with huge stock payouts ahead if they restore lost share value.

The Q1 earnings call covers everything but financials as Hyliion Holdings reworks its filings to show stock warrants as liabilities instead of equity.

Volvo Trucks North America will begin building Class 8 VNR Electric day cab trucks in Virginia in December, continuing an industry surge in bringing battery-operated commercial vehicles to market.

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The numbers will be small but the competition fierce as major truck makers debut their first fully electric Class 8 trucks in 2021. Kenworth will be in the zero-emission mix with its T680E built on a Meritor electric drive system.

Logistics giant NFI is adding 5,000 new jobs before the end of 2020, further evidence of the demand on trucking to meet pandemic-induced and holiday freight needs.

Nikola Executive Chairman Trevor Milton says buzz-building is part of the startup electric truck company’s growth strategy as its closes in on producing Class 8 trucks.

J.B. Hunt Transport got first dibs on a Freightliner heavy-duty eCascadia in an expanded customer outreach that Daimler Trucks North America hopes will amp fleet interest in when it begins taking orders in late 2021.

The focus on stock price gyrations in Nikola Corp. overlooks a major part of its business plan — making and selling hydrogen fuel for its trucks and anyone who wants it.

Tesla’s six-month stock price runup helped the company eclipse Toyota as the world’s most valuable transportation company. Reported orders for 650,000 CyberTruck pickups match 2018 and 2019 deliveries of all Tesla electric-powered models.

Logistics giant Agility is betting on soon-to-be-public Hyliion Inc. with a 1,000-unit order of its new hybrid-electric truck with a natural gas generator, as well as an investment in the startup.

Though it no longer can call itself Thor Trucks, electric truck startup Xos is progressing toward regular production with a modular platform aimed at winning partnerships with bodybuilders.

With a June 2 merger vote that would make fuel cell electric truck maker Nikola a public entity, the company’s book value has quadrupled to $12 billion in the last week.

Charging-as-a-service startup AMPLY Power raised $13.2 million from institutional investors Soros Fund Management and Siemens USA as it expands electric infrastructure management to commercial trucking from transit buses

With predictable short-haul drayage round trips from inland California to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, battery-powered trucks could account for up to half of NFI Industries’ 4,000-truck fleet by mid-decade.

Anheuser-Busch is one of the biggest customers in line for hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric trucks from Nikola Corp., iNow, it is jumping into California’s electric truck demonstration race with 21 BYD battery-electric beer delivery trucks.