Volvo Trucks North America has facilitated an important step toward the wide-scale electrification of medium- and heavy-duty trucks in North America through the expansion of charging options for fleet operators.
A sweet animated video of the Tesla Semi’s drivetrain, from 2018, found its way to me and inspired this piece on the Tesla Semi and how electrifying semi trucks and other large vehicles will help our environment.
California thinks it’s strutting its stuff again and showing off its green leadership. Yesterday, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) proudly proclaimed that it was the first in the world to adopt a requirement that truck manufacturers switch from producing diesel trucks to producing zero-emissions trucks.
One April 28th, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released the final draft of the Advanced Clean Trucks standard, a policy that will require truck manufacturers to make electric trucks. The proposal’s release kicks off a 30-day public comment period leading up to a Board vote on June 25-26.
Financing and clean energy leadership from companies such as Ideanomics* point toward a future of decreasing carbon emissions alongside reliable economic growth. Commercial EV conversion offers a way to significantly help the environment. It should be supported legislatively in order to smooth the necessary transition away from fossil fuels in every developed country in the world. China can lead the way.
We all tend to live in our own circle, our own world to some degree. Some of us are up to date on the transition to EVs and what is truly available, and some are missing that information. Thanks to CALSTART, there’s now a great new tool for finding out what is presently available in e-mobility.
SCE’s Charge Ready Transport Program helps customers add charging for more than 8,000 trucks and industrial vehicles.
Here’s an in-depth look at electric semi trucks and electric heavy-duty trucks on the market today and planned for the coming years.
Whatever happened to Brammo, the once promising electric motorcycle maker with its funky 6-speed gearbox? After Polaris acquired the company and left it to linger for years, Cummins just snapped up Brammo and is jumping into the electric truck party.
The heavy-haul and long-distance electric truck industry has been relatively quiet, working away with today’s current battery technology but primarily behind the scenes. But things kicked off much more in public when Tesla started talking about its electric truck and stories started to pop up.
Fuso, now part of Daimler, has been making the news with an electric vehicle (EV) truck ready to lift the heavy load, the E-Fuso Vision One, right on the heels of its e-Canter, which you can read about here from fellow writer Steve Hanley.
