fuel cell electric trucks

With fuel cell trucks on the road, Nikola is changing the game, but will it be enough to survive?

A big fine for Lordstown Motors and SuperTruck news carry the week over Work Truck Week and technology and maintenance event.

Natural gas, battery and fuel cell electric vehicles all vie to displace diesel. Which will win? Maybe all of them.

Hydrogen was a big topic through the mobility and transportation space at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Nikola is finally putting its fuel cell electric truck in the hands of retail customers like Bill Hall of Coyote Container.

Nikola CEO Steve Girsky knows the challenges the electric truck maker faces but points to 2024 as the company’s best year.

General Motors and Komatsu plan hydrogen-powered off-road mining trucks by mid-decade with on-site hydrogen making possible.

Nikola is offering 133.3 million new shares at 75 cents each and issuing $175 million in new debt to scale its fuel cell truck business.

Nikola Corp. founder Trevor Milton is seeking probation instead of prison on his federal fraud convictions.

Daimler Truck set a record for a zero-emission hydrogen-powered fuel cell truck, traveling 650 miles on a single fill of liquid hydrogen.

Hyliion Holdings has enough cash and investments to run its business through 2024 without raising new capital.

J.B. Hunt Transport is helping Nikola reduce its inventory of battery-electric trucks and adding to the order bank for fuel cell models.

One of the drawbacks of hydrogen adoption as a transportation fuel is the lack of infrastructure. Guess what? A network of hydrogen fueling already exists.

Nikola Corp.’s hopes for a zero-emissions trucking future may be realized without the startup being part of it.

Nikola Corp. maintains it can raise capital through equity sales, but its auditor says that’s uncertain, prompting a notice of going concern.

Nikola customers will test Plus autonomy on the startup’s battery and fuel cell electric trucks this year and make it standard in 2024.

Deliberate perfectly describes Paccar’s approach to trucking electrification. The company offers nine commercial electric trucks but skips the hype.

Nikola coined HYLA as the brand for its hydrogen business, and Biagi Brothers will make early fuel cell truck runs for Anheuser-Busch.

A $240,000 incentive from California plus other subsidies could bring parity between a Nikola fuel cell truck and a diesel rig.

With a goal of decarbonizing the economy, numerous companies are adopting centuries-old electrolysis to split oxygen and hydrogen atoms.

Daimler Truck’s cellcentric joint venture with Volvo Group is a fuel cell truck first, but a big battery pack makes it a parallel hybrid.

Werner Enterprises is sure enough of the Cummins hydrogen-powered X15H internal combustion engine engine that it ordered 500 of them.

Electric trucks — battery and fuel cells — unsurprisingly overwhelmed the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo.

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Michael Lohscheller has been named president of Nikola Corp., charged with leading the electric truck maker’s global growth.

Nikola hydrogen-powered fuel cell trucks and BYD battery-electrics conducted beer runs to Los Angeles-area bars before Sunday’s Super Bowl.

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Navistar’s new CEO aligns with parent Traton Group in declaring batteries will be the ultimate solution to zero-emission transportation.

With a growing stack of letters of intent, Nikola approaches player status in electric trucks if its demonstration units meet performance requirements.

Nikola’s founder sells another large chunk of his holdings in the electric truck startup that wants him to reimburse an expected $125 million SEC fine.

Editor’s Note: Updates with closing stock price Nikola Corp. set aside $125 million to potentially settle a Securities and Exchange Commission complaint but will seek to get indicted founder Trevor […]

The automaker is committing to hydrogen as its fuel of the future — and not just for its commercial vehicles.

The remarkable lack of engine noise in Hyzon Motors’ hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric truck is matched by its lack of emissions.

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Confident that the indictment of founder Trevor Milton won’t lead to legal trouble, Nikola focuses on supply challenges.

Hyzon Motors, the fuel cell electric truck maker, has $550 million to invest in production, R&D, and hydrogen making for trucks and buses.

Nikola’s top five executives are taking $1-a-year salaries with huge stock payouts ahead if they restore lost share value.

Hyzon Motors plans to deliver the first of 15 hydrogen-powered fuel cell trucks in the Netherlands in Q3, further establishing Europe leadership.

The soon-to-be parent of Navistar increases electrification investment to $1.9 billion by 2025 and says 80% of its brands’ trucks will be electric by 2030.

Roger Nielsen will need a new outlet for his electric and driverless truck passion as the Daimler Trucks North America CEO retires after a 35-year career.

End-to-end ecosystem combines Navistar trucks, GM fuel cell systems and mobile hydrogen producer in test on dedicated J.B. Hunt Transport routes.

As the trucking industry rebuilds toward meeting replacement demand, PACCAR expects new products will help it continue gaining market share.

Nikola is recasting its board of directors to make crisis management and business expertise available to management as the electric truck startup seeks to regain credibility lost after a stratospheric beginning as a public company.

Brett Pope, director of electric vehicles for Volvo Trucks North America, suggests waiving the 103-year-old federal excise tax to help make the Volvo VNR Electric Class 8 regional hauler it will begin selling in 2021 more affordable.

Plug Power’s hydrogen solutions are expanding into Walmart e-commerce applications after proving effective in the company’s grocery and retail networks.

Soaring heights and crashing lows describe Nikola Corp.s first six months as a public company. Allegations of fraud and a stock price decline from the high $70s to the upper teens led Yahoo Finance users to vote the electric truck startup the worst company of the year.

Toyota is using the next-generation fuel cell that powers its 2021 Mirai passenger car in production-intent Kenworth trucks for internal testing as it begins handing off the earlier-generation fuel cells for customer demonstrations.

In a federal filing, Nikola founder Trevor Milton reports selling about 3.2 million of his 91.6 million shares in the electric truck startup.

Engine maker Cummins is working with Navistar to develop a Class 8 hydrogen fuel cell truck that carrier Werner Enterprises will put through its paces as fuel cells continue to find favor in the future of long-haul trucking.

The official line on continuing negotiations is unchanged. But Nikola’s CEO refers to GM batteries and fuel cells for its trucks as alternatives.

Kenworth and Peterbilt climbed Pikes Peak with Class 8 electric trucks, then descended the 12-mile course of switchbacks and twisting turns to show the range-extending value of regenerative braking.

Volvo Trucks North America will begin building Class 8 VNR Electric day cab trucks in Virginia in December, continuing an industry surge in bringing battery-operated commercial vehicles to market.

In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, a Florida jury awards a plaintiff $411 million in the latest nuclear verdict. Plus, a lack of freight capacity has some worrying about holiday shipping delays, and Toyota and Hino will bring a Class 8 fuel-cell electric truck to the U.S. next year.

After three weeks of negative media following a short seller’s allegations of fraud, Nikola is fighting back. The startup electric truck maker showed a timeline of planned milestones to reel back fleeing investors and keep customers from canceling orders.

South Korea’s Hyundai will test heavy-duty fuel cell trucks in the U.S. in 2021 as Nikola resets following its founder’s departure.

Nikola founder Trevor Milton is out as executive chairman of the electric truck startup, the latest fallout from a brutal report by a short seller accusing him of lying about the company’s technology.

After delaying a rebuttal to short seller Hindenburg Research’s screed on the electric truck startup’s integrity, Nikola publishes detailed responses to 15 of the accusations Monday, calming jittery investors.

General Motors is putting its battery and fuel cell expertise to work for startup electric truck maker Nikola in exchange for an 11% ownership stake worth $2 billion.

Nikola Executive Chairman Trevor Milton says buzz-building is part of the startup electric truck company’s growth strategy as its closes in on producing Class 8 trucks.

The focus on stock price gyrations in Nikola Corp. overlooks a major part of its business plan — making and selling hydrogen fuel for its trucks and anyone who wants it.

Before mass-producing electric trucks in Arizona, Nikola plans hand-built models in a pilot facility that will speed sales while phased construction of its $600 million plant proceeds.

The California Air Resources Board has mandated a percentage of zero-emission Class 8 trucks must be built for sale in California. Darren Prokop’s commentary covers the ins and outs of this regulatory mandate.

At 28, Hyliion founder and CEO Thomas Healy is planning 15,000 global sales of his hybrid-electric powertrain systems for Class 8 trucks by 2024. A serial entrepreneur, Healy spoke with FreightWaves about his third startup — expected to go public before summer ends.

Daimler Trucks AG is creating a fuel cell subsidiary as a forerunner to a 50-50 joint venture with Volvo Group to make fuel cell-powered backup systems for data centers and eventually hydrogen-fueled heavy-duty trucks.

Daimler Trucks and Volvo Group, two truck makers lukewarm on hydrogen fuel cells, hedge their bets to leverage Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz fuel cell efforts for heavy-duty trucks.