With federal incentives and limited maintenance potential, medium-sized electric trucks could be a viable option for fleets. (Lion Electric) With its potential use and broader recharging capabilities, the medium-duty truck market will adopt battery-electric vehicles faster than the heavy-duty one will, experts and industry officials say. Adoption, in fact, could happen quickly. Ann Rundle, ACT ...more
A delivery driver on a cargo bike on the streets of New York. The Microhubs Pilot's objectives include lowering truck emissions and improving safety. (Streets Blog New York via Twitter) New York City officials will experiment this summer on a new system using delivery trucks to drop goods at special off-street or curbside microhubs for ...more
Port of Seattle by David Ryder/Bloomberg News The Pacific Maritime Association, the management organization representing 29 West Coast Ports and warehouses, claims that significant labor unrest by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union has shut down the Port of Seattle. In a statement released on Twitter June 9 the PMA accused the ILWU of “coordinated ...more
Firefighters stand near the collapsed section of I-95. (Office of Emergency Management via AP) PHILADELPHIA — An elevated section of Interstate 95 collapsed early June 11 after a tanker truck carrying flammable cargo caught fire, closing a heavily traveled segment of the East Coast’s main north-south highway indefinitely, authorities said. Transportation officials warned of extensive ...more
Both directions of a portion of I-95 in Philadelphia are closed indefinitely after a major fire caused an overpass to collapse. The Philadelphia Fire Department (PFD) responded to the scene around 6:30 a.m. on June 11.PFD said that a large vehicle fire occurred underneath I-95 at the Cottman Avenue Exit in the northeastern part of ...more
A Tesla charger. Competing charging companies fell on the news of Tesla’s deal with GM. (SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg News) Tesla Inc. stands to earn as much as $3 billion by 2030 thanks to deals with Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. for their electric vehicles to use its charging network, according to Piper Sandler & ...more
Signage outside Lordstown Motors Corp. headquarters in Lordstown, Ohio, in 2021. (Dustin Franz/Bloomberg News) Lordstown Motors Corp. intends to sue backer Foxconn Technology Group as the companies remain at odds over a stalled investment in the EV startup. Foxconn, best known for assembling iPhones for Apple Inc., remains “unlikely” to follow through on that investment, ...more
High-temperature steel alloy in production. A 10% reduction in vehicle weight can result in a 6% to 8% fuel-economy improvement, according to DOE. (Department of Energy) A new high-temperature steel alloy rendering engines more durable and efficient has been developed by a team from Cummins Inc. and Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s lightweight materials’ researchers. “The ...more
American Trucking Associations American Trucking Associations is carrying out a safety spending survey and is seeking participants, it said. Last conducted in 2015, responses will be used to estimate annual industry spending on safety and provide a benchmarking resource. Questions in the survey cover mandatory and discretionary safety expenditures including safety compliance, maintenance, on-board safety ...more
TuSimple TuSimple Holdings has begun Level 4 autonomous test runs on a major freight corridor in Japan, the autonomous driving technology company announced June 6. The Tomei Expressway is a main highway for freight moves in the country as it connects Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. TuSimple Japan commenced regular testing on the corridor in January ...more
