Category: Vehicles

September 15, 2023

Quantron, a provider of zero-emission commercial vehicle technologies, is rolling out an expanding range of fuel cell electric and battery-electric trucks in Europe and plans to bring a fuel cell-powered Class 8 tractor to the North American market next year. […]

September 12, 2023

The Golden State serves as a key link for freight and home for AV firms such as Aurora Innovation, Kodiak Robotics and TuSimple Holdings. Those firms and others such as Gatik, Volvo Autonomous Solutions and Waabi are developing autonomous trucking […]

September 8, 2023

If you want to know how quickly electric vehicles might spread across the U.S., just look at California. In the past five years, EVs have gone from 2% of new-car sales in the state to 22%. The pace of adoption […]

September 7, 2023

A newly developed robotic driving seat will be showcased at the British Science Festival by UCL researchers, as part of ongoing efforts to increase public trust in highly automated vehicles. The driving seat, developed by scientists from UCL’s Intelligent Mobility […]

September 7, 2023

Honda will join Ford, GM and other electric vehicle makers in adopting Tesla’s charging technology, the company announced Thursday. Honda Motor Co. said it will use Tesla’s fast-charging port for its EV models that go on sale in North American […]

August 21, 2023

As automakers continue to struggle with logistics delays for newly produced vehicles, railroads say they are working to fix the issues, while car haulers see a business opportunity. Automakers say industry-wide rail car shortages are limiting their ability to send […]

August 16, 2023

You’re probably familiar with previous technology format wars, whether it be VHS versus Betamax or Blu-ray versus HD DVD. Now another has quickly brewed in the way people plug in and charge their electric vehicles. It’s a battle of CCS […]

August 15, 2023

VinFast Auto Ltd. soared in its debut as a public company, vaulting its market capitalization beyond that of General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co., as traders flipped shares of the electric vehicle maker. The Vietnamese company, which went public […]

August 15, 2023

U.S. retail sales for medium-duty trucks grew 10.9% in July compared with the year-ago period, according to data from Wards Intelligence. Total retail sales for Class 4 through Class 7 trucks increased to 19,618 units from 17,682 units, marking the […]

July 31, 2023

According to fleet executives as well as fleet maintenance managers, the death of the internal combustion engine may prove to be greatly exaggerated in spite of the excitement about electric powertrains. Industry leaders have been working to give the basic […]

July 25, 2023

Congress is wading into the debate over whether automakers should be allowed to sell hundreds of thousands of self-driving cars while manufacturers seek federal permission to expand testing of the technology. The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee is scheduled […]

July 24, 2023

Republican congressional leaders have sent a letter to Ford Motor Co. CEO Jim Farley claiming they had received documents showing hundreds of jobs at the company’s planned battery plant in Marshall will go to employees of a Chinese battery firm. […]

July 21, 2023

In a new report, the United States Chamber of Commerce recently laid out the potential social and economic benefits of passenger autonomous vehicles (AVs), and assessed several related adoption scenarios that highlighted the need for advance national regulatory action. “As […]

July 17, 2023

Ford Motor Co. is slashing prices on the electric version of its best-selling F-150 pickup by as much as 17%, reversing price hikes implemented last year on its debut battery-powered truck. The F-150 Lightning Pro, the cheapest version of the […]

July 10, 2023

Designing reliable aircraft can be both challenging and time-consuming, as it often entails several steps and analyses. Deep learning models could potentially help to speed up aircraft design and deployment, helping developers to identify the most promising solutions or potential […]

June 28, 2023

Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to lock in supplies of the once-obscure “white gold” in a politically and environmentally fraught competition from China to Nevada to Chile. General Motors Co. and the […]

June 21, 2023

More than a decade ago, a high-flying startup called Better Place made a billion-dollar bet that electric car drivers would prefer to swap depleted batteries for fresh ones in minutes rather than charge them for hours. At the time, most […]

June 14, 2023

With the federal government incentivizing the expansion of domestic electric-vehicle battery manufacturing, a new Cornell University study examines the long-term energy and sustainability prospects of U.S. production, and highlights policy approaches for building a more resilient battery supply chain. EV […]

June 1, 2023

Both companies said the deal would help them push towards their goals to reduce emissions — albeit in different ways. “The acquisition would add talented manufacturing and technical resources to Cummins’ workforce, position Cummins closer to key suppliers and consumers […]

May 19, 2023

Using a motorised arm, a worker at Volvo’s factory near Gothenburg slowly guides massive black blocks alongside a chassis, the three tonnes of batteries soon to power an electric truck. “This is where the difference lies,” explains Sandra Finer, vice […]