At the beginning of October, I published a story on the beginning of Tesla Semi deliveries. The first Tesla Semi for a commercial customer is set to be delivered on December 1, to PepsiCo. There are plenty of financial analyses and specs we could highlight to examine the cost-competitiveness of … [continued]
Reliance Transport, with the help of the Low Emission Transport Fund, administered with the help of funding from New Zealand’s Energy Efficiency and Conversation Authority, has commissioned two battery-powered Scania electric trucks to take the road in New Zealand. Reliance Transport is a last-mile cartage specialist based in South Auckland. … [continued]
CARB wants to remove all diesel truck fleets from California roads by 2045. Some say that is too soon, others not soon enough.
Earlier this week, Tesla announced that an entire event will be held at its Gigafactory in Sparks, Nevada, to celebrate the first deliveries of its class-8 semi truck, the Tesla Semi. Now that the event is all set to happen, Tesla has started sending invites to retail investors to RSVP. These … [continued]
BrightDrop shared with investors today that it expected to cross the $1 billion sales mark in 2023, making it one of the fastest businesses to do so. By the end of the decade, the company expects to reach 20% profit margins and up to $10 billion in revenue. The BrightDrop … [continued]
With the vast majority of ships calling at European, Chinese and US ports, regulation of shipping emissions in these economies would be enough to decarbonise shipping globally. 84% of shipping traffic goes through Europe, China and the US, a new Transport & Environment (T&E) study shows. If these economies were … [continued]
Ten organizations signed the Joint Statement on Green Hydrogen and Green Shipping, committing to rapid adoption of green hydrogen-based fuels this decade to get on track for full decarbonization of the shipping sector by 2050, and calling on policymakers to help achieve the ambitious targets. Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt – November … [continued]
The US hydrogen strategy was positioned in the wrong federal department. It was put in the hands of people who deal with fossil fuels all day long and have a paradigm of burning them for energy, not a paradigm of electricity for energy. It fails Rumelt’s test for the first thing that makes a good strategy, and so its principles and actions will be failures as well.
Volvo Group’s truck plant in Ghent, Belgium, has announced that in 2025 it will start to produce battery modules. So far, the group has been dependent on partners to supply both cells and modules to the group. The investment decision to install battery module manufacturing capacity in Ghent is another … [continued]
Shyft Group, formerly known as Spartan Motors, has nearly five decades of experience designing and building fleet vehicles of all shapes and sizes including half of all last mile delivery vehicles. These delivery vans are what you think of when you think about a standard FedEx or UPS delivery truck. … [continued]
