Hino Trucks

The Advanced Clean Transportation Expo has grown so large that organizers kept a waiting list for exhibitors.

Mack, Isuzu and Hino offer new battery-electric medium-duty work trucks as the industry transition accelerates from diesel and gasoline power.

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The costs of keeping up with four engine technologies and the pace of self-driving trucks push rival truck manufacturers into partnerships.

DHL Express was pleased with a trial of nine Lightning eMotors electric Ford Transit vans and is now ordering an additional 89 units to deploy in New York and California.

With medium- and heavy-duty trucks already using its electrified chassis, Xos Trucks will have $575 million to scale its business following a SPAC merger.

With European investors and loads of experience in Asia, Hyzon Motors is targeting the U.S. for heavy-duty fuel cells it plans to build in General Motors’ former research and development facility.

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.

Daimler Truck and Volvo Group expect to hit the ground running in their fuel cell joint venture. Volvo is buying Daimler’s expertise and helping offset the development cost of the zero-emissions technology while the rivals will compete in producing hydrogen-powered trucks.

In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, Massachusetts voters will decide the fate of proprietary vehicle repair data, refrigerated trailers go zero emissions and Xos is one of many suppliers named for the new Hino fuel cell truck.

Startup Xos originally sold itself as a Class 8 electric truck chassis maker. After pivoting to middle-mile medium-duties when they looked like the sweet spot, Xos is back to the larger trucks with a contract from Hino Trucks.

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.

Mexico’s new “Administrative Registry of the Automotive Industry of Heavy Vehicles” will contain monthly data from trucking companies, including wholesale and retail sales, as well as import, export and production numbers for trucks in Mexico.

The departure of Andreas Renschler as CEO of TRATON assures that new executives at TRATON and Navistar will oversee what most see as an inevitable combination.

Tesla’s six-month stock price runup helped the company eclipse Toyota as the world’s most valuable transportation company. Reported orders for 650,000 CyberTruck pickups match 2018 and 2019 deliveries of all Tesla electric-powered models.

Toyota subsidiary Hino Trucks is recalling 13,700 conventional body trucks because the negative battery cable is too short, preventing one in five trucks from restarting after being turned off.

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.

Toyota and Hino, its heavy truck subsidiary, are offering few details on an Asian heavy-duty truck fuel cell program that complements Toyota’s Oceans 10 project with Kenworth Truck Co. in the U.S.

Hino Trucks is already increasing its investment in a new plant in West Virginia, where it will build Class 7 and 8 trucks in addition to medium-duty models.

It’s been about 50 years since a truck maker has successfully entered the Class 8 market in North America and lasted, said Dominik Beckman, director of marketing and dealer operations for Hino Trucks. So what makes Hino think it can do that now?

Hino Trucks will expand its product offerings to include Class 8 vehicles, starting in 2019, the company said this week.