The U.S. Postal Service is testing its first long-haul self-driving delivery truck in a two-week pilot program that will use an autonomous semi-trailer to deliver mail between distribution centres in Phoenix and Dallas. TuSimple, a […]
Daimler Trucks North America has announced this week that it will begin building electric powered Freightliner trucks at its Portland Oregon facility with an expected start to production in 2021. Daimler had already been developing […]
One thing Nikola didn’t reveal at its major launch event, Nikola World in Scottsdale Arizona a fortnight ago was the falling out it had suffered with the then supplier of its fuel cell stack supplier, […]
Following last week’s story of start up zero emission truck maker Nikola’s major announcements at its Nikola World event, legacy truck maker Kenworth has shown the Paccar empire is open to embracing clean green trucks […]
Nikola founder Trevor Milton arrived at the grandly named Nikola World event in Scottsdale, Arizona aboard a transport mode from a bygone era sitting atop a wagon pulled by the Budweiser Clydesdales. The contrast was […]
Heavy-duty truck deliveries in the USA have fallen by a dramatic 64 per cent in the first quarter of 2019 following record sales during the same period in 2018. The major issue affecting the US market […]
Nikola Motor Co. has concluded a $AUD 34-million ($US23million) deal to purchase a 157-hectare site in central southern Arizona for a hydrogen-electric truck manufacturing plant. The 93000-square-metre plant will be built in a planned industrial […]
Toll, the Australian logistics and transport giant. which is now a subsidiary of Japan Post has announced it has added the first two electric vehicles to be operated by Toll Express Japan. The light-duty all-electric […]
German transmission and automotive technology giant, ZF has announced it is buying US brake technology specialist Wabco, for a reported $AUD10 (US$7 billion). ZF says the purchase will be a meeting between two companies which […]
California state legislators have introduced a bill proposing a law that would phase out diesel trucks in the US’s most populous state in an effort to control pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. However the action […]
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