Navistar is selling an engine-testing facility in Illinois to an industrial park developer, laying off 250 employees by the end of the year. The need for engine testing is shrinking amid the industry transition to alternative propulsion like battery-electric vehicles.
As car plants curtail production because of a global semiconductor shortage, suppliers and truck makers try to discern what to expect amid near-record Class 8 truck orders.
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Heather Kettelhohn told the North American Supply Chain Summit she arrived at Cummins Inc. just four days before the pandemic began to shut down the company’s global operations. She had to learn on the fly while applying her decades of planning expertise.
Two years following its initial cross-country journey, Shell has announced its updated Starship concept tractor-trailer combination will make a second trip in early 2021.
From trains to trucks to data centers, Cummins Inc. sees $400 million in revenue from hydrogen-making electrolyzers in 2025 as it pursues green hydrogen from renewable sources like solar and wind instead of gray hydrogen made from natural gas.
Engine maker Cummins is working with Navistar to develop a Class 8 hydrogen fuel cell truck that carrier Werner Enterprises will put through its paces as fuel cells continue to find favor in the future of long-haul trucking.
Daimler Truck and Volvo Group expect to hit the ground running in their fuel cell joint venture. Volvo is buying Daimler’s expertise and helping offset the development cost of the zero-emissions technology while the rivals will compete in producing hydrogen-powered trucks.
A look at how college English major Amy Davis navigates hydrogen fuel cells and other alternative energies at Cummins, the trucking industry’s top engine maker.
Diesel engine leader locks up engine supply agreement with Navistar through 2026.
The stalled truck engine business will recover as it always does. But Cummins isn’t waiting around as it charges into making hydrogen and fuel cells for trains, ships and trucks.
Engine maker Cummins soundly beat estimates for earnings and sales in the second quarter because its plants in China worked overtime as the country rebounded from the coronavirus pandemic.
Cummins saw a tough environment for most of its segments in 2020 before the word pandemic became common. Now it is depending on its collective experience in managing bad times to pull it through again.
An electric fuel heater in some Cummins’ diesel engines that can overheat and catch fire led Navistar to recall about 50,000 trucks and buses.
Cummins says Dynamic Skip Fire for diesel engines is promising in reducing smog-forming emissions in line with CARB and EPA goals to lower nitrous oxide pollution from heavy-duty trucks.
Daimler Trucks and Volvo Group, two truck makers lukewarm on hydrogen fuel cells, hedge their bets to leverage Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz fuel cell efforts for heavy-duty trucks.
Cummins could provide feedstock to make several million N95 masks a month by leveraging the same nano-material it uses to stop the fouling of diesel truck engines to protect healthcare workers tending to coronavirus patients.
Engine maker Cummins already was predicting a difficult 2020 before the outbreak of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China, where Cummins’ manufacturing operations are shuttered.
Mack likes the stability of the medium-duty truck market, where it can sell small trucks to current customers without the dizzying ups and downs of the Class 8 market.
Mack is back in medium-duty trucks with its first offering in two decades coming this summer from a new plant near Roanoke, Virginia.
