Is the flux capacitor made famous in “Back to the Future” an answer to more efficient hydrogen storage on Class 8 trucks?
As public confidence in autonomous vehicles continues low, autonomous trucking developers are reeling in safety data from third-party experts.
The lanes are getting longer for autonomous trucks and the promise of greater profitability is predicted to follow.
As electrification and infrastructure startups mature, banks get interested in lending money to help the best of them grow.
A name change to drop the word diesel from its title may have been the politically correct move. But diesel is not going anywhere.
The potential energy and environmental gains from autonomous trucking are laid out in a new white paper from Aurora Innovation.
A big fine for Lordstown Motors and SuperTruck news carry the week over Work Truck Week and technology and maintenance event.
Hyliion is getting a second chance to make a viable business with its Karno technology that could help generate a buyer for the company.
The financial freezeout of startups by investors may be thawing as FOMU — the fear of messing up — begins to subside.
Hyliion Holdings is throwing in the towel on its Hypertruck ERX natural gas-electric powertrain to focus on generator technology.
Can Hyliion pivot to make stationary generators the base of its business as it decides whether to pursue the Hypertruck ERX?
Startup Hyliion Holdings is pausing orders of its Hypertruck ERX as costs rise and electric trucks get better.
Hyliion Holdings has enough cash and investments to run its business through 2024 without raising new capital.
Hyzon Motors is willing to consider selling itself or merging to keep making progress on its fuel cell system.
TuSimple plans driverless trucking on a commercial basis in Arizona next year – without a manufacturing partner.
Hyliion Holdings is teaming up with financially struggling Hyzon Motors to develop a hydrogen-powered fuel cell version of its hybrid truck.
Batteries. Electrified components. Fuel cells. Cummins Inc. has plans for all of them. But hydrogen-making electrolyzers top the list.
It is pretty much acknowledged across the trucking industry that a consolidation of players in autonomous trucking is coming.
The approach of Cummins Inc. to hydrogen-fueled internal combustion engines is very different from how and when it talks about most of its products.
Daimler Truck CEO Martin Daum has strong opinions on cabovers versus conventional trucks, fuel cells and other issues.
A Nikola whistleblower collected $600,000 from a short seller of the company’s stock and could be in line for a bigger payday from the SEC.
Hyliion Holdings is buying generator technology from General Electric Co. that can make electricity from a variety of mixed fuels.
Hyliion still depends on its hybrid electric booster for its revenue, but the orderbook expanded 11% for the Hypertruck ERX in Q2.
On Jennifer Rumsey’s second day as CEO, Cummins Inc. reported strong Q2 earnings in North America.
Cummins Inc., a threat to the survivability of hybrid powertrain developer Hyliion, will partner with the startup on certifying a natural gas engine.
Hyliion gana credibilidad en el transporte de larga distancia de bajas emisiones con Cummins de su lado
Ever willing to try something new, Werner Enterprises teams aligns with Aurora Innovation on 600-mile supervised autonomous freight runs in Texas.
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Multiple fleets placed deposits for 100 extended-range Hypertruck ERX units as Hyliion Holdings declared it has enough money for a late 2023 launch.
El CEO Healy confía en que el camión eléctrico de gas natural de autonomía extendida lo conseguirá
Hyliion Holdings has doubled its headcount amid an unrelenting battering of electric vehicle startup stock values.
Truck Tech is a weekly newsletter providing perspective and context on autonomy, electrification and other technologies impacting the fleet ecosystem.
Truck Tech is a weekly newsletter providing perspective and context on autonomy, electrification and other technologies impacting the fleet ecosystem.
Truckload operator Werner Enterprises is an early evaluator of the latest powertrain technologies, including a hydrogen-powered Cummins engine.
From storing renewable energy stocks to tapping high-voltage transmission lines, the juice to power electric trucks has to come from somewhere.
Hedge funds and retail investors led the takeoff in transportation SPACs that are barely staying aloft. Guess who gets the better end of that deal?
Parts shortages delay winter testing of Hyliion’s Hypertruck ERX while Cummins’ competition casts doubt on the future of the startup’s current Hybrid eX.
Last of major truck makers to launch an electric truck, Navistar places first five medium-duty eMV Series models with Penske Truck Leasing.
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Schneider and NFI Industries will each get 50 battery-electric Class 8 trucks, with California environmental agencies paying a big chunk of the bill.
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Shares of electric chassis maker Xos Trucks closed 14.5% lower in their first day of public trading, getting a reception similar to its peers.
Hybrid powertrain maker Hyliion is increasing electric range to get zero-emission credits for customers of its natural gas-electric Class 8 truck.
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Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Mexico remains top US trade partner; second USMCA labor complaint lodged at Mexican factory; Hyliion expands Texas headquarters; and avocado imports from Mexico up 26%.
Truck Talk is a weekly newsletter that looks under the hood of the trucking industry to add perspective and context to what’s happening.
Truck Talk is a weekly newsletter from FreightWaves that adds perspective and context to happenings in the trucking world.
Truck Talk is a weekly newsletter offering perspective and context on happenings in the industry.
The Q1 earnings call covers everything but financials as Hyliion Holdings reworks its filings to show stock warrants as liabilities instead of equity.
Hyliion Holdings stock is getting hammered along with most electric vehicle startups, but CEO Thomas Healy is staying optimistic.
Capturing wastewater, farm and food waste to make biogas can prevent planet-warming methane emissions from going airborne.
SPAC-backed stocks are getting hammered, but Hyliion soldiers on in preparing the negative net-zero carbon Hypertruck ERX.
Kenworth delivered two natural gas-powered T680 hybrid electric trucks to a fleet for drayage testing in California. They are the first and likely the last.
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Electric chassis maker Xos Trucks may be the next electrification startup to get a financial injection by merging with a special purpose acquisition company, Reuters reported Monday.
Dooner and The Dude stack the first Wednesday episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? with high-profile guests Steve Case, Thomas Healy, Mark Wiese and George Abernathy.
The purchase of 12.5 million shares of Hyliion stock with warrants issued to initial stock purchasers in SPAC sponsor Tortoise Acquisition Corp. netted $142 million for the hybrid truck driveline maker.
Dana Inc. spotted the trend toward zero-emission commercial vehicles four years ago when China offered incentives for battery-powered buses. That led the Tier 1 supplier to start buying and partnering with companies to build an all-in approach to electrification.
Cowen Inc. helps bolster the balance sheets of startup electric vehicle companies by recruiting private investment in public equity to help young companies earn higher valuations.
