Manufacturing
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Electric truck maker Xos evolves into full-fledged manufacturer
Startup Xos Trucks introduced full-fledged heavy- and medium-duty electric chassis cabs, signifying its graduation from a powertrain component integrator.
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Truck Tech: Desert bloom edition
Nikola is helping to bring electric infrastructure companies to the Arizona desert where it has begun production of electric trucks.
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Nikola launches regular production of Class 8 battery-electric trucks
Class 8 battery-electric trucks will generate the first meaningful revenue that Nikola can take to the bank.
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Truck manufacturer Paccar knocks Q1 financials out of the park
Q1 sales and earnings at the parent of Kenworth, Peterbilt and DAF Trucks posted records despite persistent supply chain issues.
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Customers put squeeze on maker of compressors to localize manufacturing
T/CCI makes heavy-duty air compressors in China, but it is looking to do what it can to meet customer demands to localize production.
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Truck plant anatomy: How Navistar built in San Antonio for just $250M
How did Navistar manage to build its assembly plant in San Antonio for a relatively paltry $250 million? Partly by ignoring a famous baseball movie…
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Truck Tech: ‘Into the Groove’ edition
Truck Tech is a weekly newsletter providing perspective and context on autonomy, electrification and other technologies impacting the fleet ecosystem.
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Navistar cuts ribbon on advanced manufacturing truck plant in Texas
Navistar designed its new $250 million plant to Industry 4.0 standards, including robots that talk to each other and paperless operations.
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GSCW chat: Outlook for US industrial sector with Bloomberg’s Sutherland
The industrial sector is one of the first that may see some signs of inflation abating.
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Cummins playing supply chain whack-a-mole for everything but semiconductors
Cummins Inc. deals with multiple short-term supply chain glitches, but it could take two years to fix chip shortages, CEO Tom Linebarger says.
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