Sodium-ion batteries are one of the hot new things in the EV and broader cleantech industry. They are providing a next era of electrification. That even includes electric mining trucks now! Hina Battery and Shaanxi Tonly Heavy Industries are collaborating on these mining trucks, which are reportedly the first such … [continued]
A display of BYD bus scale models, including London EV buses, 90% of which are either new or run on BYD electric platforms. Photo for CleanTechnica by Raymond Tribdino.
In the third and final* article in this miniseries on BYD’s monthly sales, we’re looking beyond passenger vehicles and jumping into large commercial electric vehicles. If you missed our previous two articles, see this one on BYD’s overall plugin vehicle sales and this one on BYD’s vehicle sales beyond California. … [continued]
Recent CleanTechnica stories from Michael Barnard have highlighted CATL’s joint venture to introduce electric truck swap infrastructure to Europe. That company provides turnkey solutions for swap stations and batteries. Electric truck swap developments extend to other areas of the globe as well. Janus Electric is a company in Australia that … [continued]
CleanTechnica readers were among the first to be told about the prospect of electric semi-truck trailers to be built at the Volvo plant in Wacol, near Brisbane, Queensland. Volvo Group Australia has just announced that the first units have rolled off its production line in Wacol. “These are the first … [continued]
By Ray Wills and Peter Newman CleanTechnica allows comments, and there are always great comments by readers, as well as the obligatory smattering of naysaying trolls. We thought we might collate and comment on the good stuff that came in on our article “China’s Electric Truck Moment Has Arrived — … [continued]
YOKOHAMA, Japan — Isuzu Motors is testing a three-minute battery-swapping system for municipal electric garbage trucks in Yokohama, aiming to eliminate lengthy charging delays for high-demand commercial vehicles. This was first reported in Japan Times but confirmation of the timing came from CleanTechnica sources in Isuzu’s headquarters at Nishi-ki in … [continued]
UAAGI Auto Group, the Philippine distributor of the battery-electric Radar RD6 pickup, said it sold 112 units in June, more than doubling the 44 units delivered in May. While the company did not disclose cumulative sales, the month-over-month increase suggests growing interest in electrified pickups, a segment that has recently … [continued]
By Ray Wills and Peter Newman If the electric car was the opening chapter of China’s transport transition, battery-electric heavy trucks are the next — and it is now moving from promise to industrial reality. And this is happening inside the fastest energy transition in human history. For global oil, … [continued]
China’s electric-truck buildout targets the high-use freight diesel market oil forecasts still rely on.
Oil forecasts that still depend on sustained Chinese road-fuel growth now have a heavy-truck problem. Passenger electric vehicles have already weakened the gasoline story, but freight diesel is the more important system denominator. Commercial trucks operate for longer hours, carry heavier loads and burn far more fuel per vehicle than … [continued]
Volvo’s long-range electric truck shows where freight architecture is moving: batteries and charging at the center, hydrogen forced to prove exceptions.
Volvo’s new FH Aero Electric is the kind of truck legacy manufacturers used to imply battery-electric trucking could not really become. It claims up to 700 kilometers of range, carries up to 725 kWh of usable battery energy, supports megawatt charging, and uses a new e-axle to free more chassis … [continued]
