With increased power, enhanced efficiency, and an extended range, the Next Generation eCanter from FUSO offers a wide array of applications and operates with zero CO2 emissions during driving. After making its European debut at the IAA Transportation in Hanover in September 2022, Daimler Truck subsidiary FUSO has commenced the … [continued]
With the recent first sales of the Tesla Semi, the company is making a big buzz. Not only is it great for Tesla, but it’s great to see companies like Pepsi and Frito-Lay switching their local and regional runs to electric. As charging infrastructure for electric trucks proliferates, and as … [continued]
Team Global Express (TGE) plans to run 36 medium and 24 light rigid electric trucks in Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The move is partially funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA). TGE is running the large-scale trial to judge the emissions reduction before assessing the replacement of … [continued]
If the children are good this Christmas, their presents may be delivered by Australia Post’s large fleet of electric vehicles. Of course, if they are naughty, they will get a lump of coal. (The 16th century legend of Krampus was eerily prescient of our current crisis, don’t you think?) Australia … [continued]
As the first customer of the second test phase in Germany, DB Schenker has received a battery-electric eActros of the so-called “innovation fleet”. This leading company for global logistics services will use the 25-ton truck for the delivery of general cargo — i.e., palletized goods that are too large and heavy for parcel delivery — in the city center of Leipzig.
Volvo Buys into Daimler Fuel Cell Tech for Heavy Trucks, spending $650 million to form new joint venture and reduce its carbon footprint.
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.
A little over a year ago, we announced that Mercedes had kicked off a Fuso Canter E-Cell pilot in Portugal to test out its light trucks in real-world environments, and the results are finally in. Delivery and transport trucks are a key opportunity for EV technology, as they typically run on … [continued]
