California’s recent adoption of the ACF regulation, which will phase out diesel trucks over the next few years, has highlighted the pressing need for heavy-duty EV charging infrastructure. WattEV is doing its part. Construction of its 26-truck charging plaza at the Port of Long Beach is complete, and the company, along with charging standards organization… Read more »
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Kenworth delivers T680E electric truck to Knight-Swift Transportation
Truckload carrier Knight-Swift Transportation has received its first Kenworth T680E Class 8 electric truck along with a supporting PACCAR 120 kW EV charging station from Inland Kenworth in Phoenix, Arizona. The Kenworth T680E is designed for pickup and delivery, regional haul and drayage applications. It has an 82,000-pound GVWR and an estimated operating range of… Read more »
Tesla delivers “badass” Semi, teases megawatt charging for Cybertruck
The Tesla Semi is finally here, and it’s officially a beast. “If you’re a truck driver and you want the most bad-ass rig on the road, this is it,” said Tesla’s CEO at a delivery event at the company’s Nevada Gigafactory, just before he handed over key cards to two PepsiCo executives. EV pundits were… Read more »
Autocar delivers electric terminal tractor to California supermarket chain
Autocar Industries, a manufacturer of “specialized severe-duty vocational trucks,” has delivered one of its E-ACTT electric terminal tractors to Stater Bros. Markets, which operates 171 supermarkets in Southern California and has its own in-house shipping and distribution departments. Autocar delivered the E-ACTT to the Stater Bros. distribution center in San Bernardino, California, and provided operator… Read more »
Autocar begins field-testing electric cabover refuse trucks
Autocar, a manufacturer of specialized severe-duty vocational trucks, has built two alpha refuse trucks featuring an all-electric powertrain. The company is now putting two E-ACX electric cabover refuse trucks through a validation testing process to ensure that they’re just as tough as the company’s existing diesel and CNG trucks. The two E-ACX-64 alpha units are… Read more »
Orange EV Raises $35 million to scale electric trucking solutions
Orange EV may not be well-known to the general public, but it has outlasted a lot of early entrants to the commercial EV space, and is now in its 10th year of operations. The company has 450 terminal trucks in use by more than 130 fleets across 28 US states, Canada and the Caribbean. Yard… Read more »
Orange EV unveils third generation of its electric yard trucks
Orange EV isn’t exactly a household name, but the truck manufacturer deployed its first electric yard truck in 2015, and now has some 400 trucks in operation in the US. Now Orange has announced a new generation of its T-Series electric yard trucks (aka terminal tractors or yard goats). The 2022 e-TRIEVER features subsystems designed… Read more »
California drayage fleet operator orders 20 Kenworth T680E electric trucks
4 Gen Logistics, a provider of drayage services at ports and logistics terminals in California, has placed an order for 20 Kenworth T680E electric trucks. David Duncan is an owner of 4 Gen Logistics and a VP of Phoenix-based Duncan and Son Lines. The two companies currently operate a combined 147 Kenworth T680s. He decided… Read more »
Orange EV claims to have the most electric trucks operating in the US
Electric trucks are much in the news these days, but most of the coverage seems to focus on well-known OEMs such as Daimler and Volvo, which are just beginning to deliver e-trucks to US customers, or Tesla, which has delivered none. Meanwhile, Orange EV, founded in 2012, says it has deployed over 370 trucks to… Read more »
Road test indicates existing electric trucks could replace millions of diesels on short-haul routes
When it comes to long-haul trucking, battery-electric trucks face a number of challenges, including weight restrictions and the need for an ultra-high-power charging solution. However, despite what you may read in those “anything but EVs” articles, the jury’s still out on when, or whether, battery and charging specs will improve to meet these challenges, or… Read more »