What does proposed China component ban mean for autonomous trucks?
Autonomous truck developers are trying to figure out what a proposed ban on Chinese components will mean to them.
Autonomous truck developers are trying to figure out what a proposed ban on Chinese components will mean to them.
Driverless truck developers are looking to third-party validators to back their safety claims.
Electrification startup Synop is carving a niche for itself focused on help electric fleets return electricity to the grid and get paid for it.
Sitetracker helps companies like ChargePoint automate tasks surrounding getting electric charging points up and running faster.
A newsier-than-typical Advanced Clean Transportation Expo featured the first appearance by Tesla and a single stage gathering of legacy OEMs.
Even an EV-friendly policy analyst acknowledged during a House subcommittee hearing that trucking faces big challenges in meeting the EPA’s new zero-emission regulations.
EV Realty flips the electric truck charging script: It buys future charging sites with power already there.
After numerous rides in autonomous trucks monitored by safety drivers in case of a mishap, I found it almost surreal to climb into Aurora Innovation’s Class 8 driverless truck, buckle […]
Natural gas, battery and fuel cell electric vehicles all vie to displace diesel. Which will win? Maybe all of them.
New Class 8 truck deliveries have fallen for four consecutive months even as vocational equipment sales rise.
General Motors and Komatsu plan hydrogen-powered off-road mining trucks by mid-decade with on-site hydrogen making possible.
TuSimple Holdings is following through on winding down its U.S. autonomous trucking business, laying off 150 more employees.
Consistent with its rivals, Traton sees orders slowing but strong deliveries across its brands including Navistar.
Can Hyliion pivot to make stationary generators the base of its business as it decides whether to pursue the Hypertruck ERX?
Can Outrider hold onto its healthy lead in distribution yard autonomy as competition begins to form?
A Dana Inc. supplier used non-conforming rolled metal tubes in two lots of drive shafts, leading to Daimler Truck and Navistar recalls.
Could Kodiak leverage some of the work Navistar has in on a redundant chassis for a Class 8 autonomous truck?
Navistar saw a big drop in orders, but deliveries of new International trucks helped parent Traton to strong second-quarter results.
Hydrogen’s historical link to the Hindenburg disaster is receding as its use as a transportation fuel grows.
Lightning eMotors identifies electrifying small school buses and shuttle vans as its niche. Scaling depends on finding new capital.
Navistar Inc. is recalling an additional 22,684 trucks and buses for a brake fluid leak that can lead to an under hood fire.
Megawatt charging is too much for pretty much every electric truck save for the purpose-built Tesla Semi. But that is slowly changing.
Navistar Inc. is recalling more than 92,000 trucks and buses because an antilock brake system warning light may not work.
Former Daimler Truck North America CEO Roger Nielsen will become chairman of Proterra Inc. (Photo: Daimler Truck North America)
The Advanced Clean Transportation Expo has grown so large that organizers kept a waiting list for exhibitors.
Quarter after quarter, Paccar Inc. points to parts sales as driving its revenue and profits. Rush Enterprises deserves some of the credit.
General Motors is recalling 40,000 medium-duty trucks built by Navistar that can catch fire because of leaking brake fluid.
Navistar is recalling about 45,000 older trucks because insufficient current to the HVAC blower motor led to melting and fires.
TuSimple plans driverless trucking on a commercial basis in Arizona next year – without a manufacturing partner.
Settling multiple distractions surrounding TuSimple was Cheng Lu’s priority when he returned as CEO in November.
Xiaodi Hou habría intentado atraer a empleados a su nueva empresa
TuSimple co-founder Xiaodi Hou quit the board at the autonomous trucking startup as the company investigated him for employee poaching.
Germany’s Traton Group topped $42 billion in revenue for 2022 with Navistar contributing significantly to the top and bottom lines.
In some rare good news for autonomous truck software developer TuSimple, the FMCSA closed a probe into a crash last April.
It is pretty much acknowledged across the trucking industry that a consolidation of players in autonomous trucking is coming.
Uber Freight and Volvo Autonomous Solutions are stressing patience over hype in working to digitally schedule loads for the truckmaker’s one-stop shop for all things autonomy.
Big numbers tied to electric infrastructure released this week reinforce the chicken-and-egg cliche about electric trucks.
The breakup with Navistar is a big deal for autonomous truck developer TuSimple, but its balance sheet could limit reputational damage.
El drama de la startup y sus fallos de comunicación obligan a la división Traton a hacer las maletas
The industry’s first autonomous trucking marriage between TuSimple and Navistar is the first to end in divorce.
Navistar is recalling more than 31,000 vehicles across 12 product lines because fasteners may break due to inadequate heat treating.
Driver-facing cameras are seen as intrusive and an invasion of privacy in the truck-driving community. Yet fleets are rapidly adopting them.
Data centers and electric charging infrastructure share an insatiable demand for power. Neha Palmer understands both.
Small fleets make up 90% of the nation’s carriers. Waymo Via and C.H. Robinson used beer runs to familiarize them with autonomous trucking.
Navistar is recalling 8,002 more trucks for a connecting rod defect discovered in 2020, bringing to 23,802 the number of trucks included.
Rusty Rush not only operates more truck dealerships than anyone on the planet, he also knows technology. And he has opinions on just about everything. So, buckle up. It’s Rush hour.
Lego bricks can help explain a lot of things, including a very messy supply chain. Penske Truck Leasing’s Paul Rosa got creative .
TuSimple told federal officials about the crash of one of its supervised autonomous trucks and temporarily grounded its fleet. But it neglected to inform its partner, Navistar.
Se sospecha que 8.483 camiones International LT y LoneStar tienen esta condición
Navistar is recalling 8,483 International LT and LoneStar Class 8 trucks because battery cables can overheat to 260 degrees Fahrenheit.
Nikola’s could keep adjourning its annual meeting as it pursues unvoted proxies to raise the number of authorized shares.
The management shakeup at TuSimple has become a full management house cleaning. Hyliion sees early benefits following Cummins’ partnership.
The feds released a first-time report aimed at developing a clearer picture of autonomous vehicle safety.
TuSimple co-founder Mo Chen launches Hydron, an autonomous trucking venture that would use hydrogen fuel to achieve zero emissions.
Electric trucks — battery and fuel cells — unsurprisingly overwhelmed the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo.
Is a bigger battery on wheels the best way to make autonomous trucks more efficient? Solo Advanced Vehicle Technologies thinks so.
Traton Group is glad it bought Navistar when it did. The U.S. truck and bus maker is helping offset war and other issues at the German holding company.
TuSimple, the autonomous truck developer is delaying its purpose-built driverless truck to 2025 while slowing its roll in other areas.
Nikola is helping to bring electric infrastructure companies to the Arizona desert where it has begun production of electric trucks.
Navistar spending more than $190 million for an integrated powertrain in Alabama for North America .
How did Navistar manage to build its assembly plant in San Antonio for a relatively paltry $250 million? Partly by ignoring a famous baseball movie line.
Con un tercer socio, el transportista apuesta por la tecnología para paliar la escasez de conductores
U.S. Xpress is tripling down on autonomy, adding Kodiak Robotics to pilots with Embark Trucks and TuSimple.
FreightWaves’ Mary O’Connell and Joe Antoshak sit down to talk about the top 500 for-hire carrier list and the 2022 driver pay guide just completed.
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Navistar designed its new $250 million plant to Industry 4.0 standards, including robots that talk to each other and paperless operations.
With Daimler Truck already on board, Platform Science adds Navistar as the second manufacturer to factory install its open-source telematics.
Traton Group is still focused on battery power for trucks but tossed a bone to hydrogen in raising its electrification spending to about $3 billion by 2026.
Mack Trucks left the medium-duty market for two decades. The initial reaction to its return suggests people missed the bulldog.
La campaña de Sophomore gira hacia las aplicaciones profesionales con una transmisión más pesada
El área de ensamblaje, brillantemente iluminada, carece intencionadamente de los adornos de la fabricación pesada
In a century-old manufacturing complex where General Motors once built gears and axles, Waymo manufactures autonomous cars and trucks.
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Truckload operator Werner Enterprises is an early evaluator of the latest powertrain technologies, including a hydrogen-powered Cummins engine.
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Like the doorman at a posh nightclub who decides who gets in, truck manufacturers are choosy about what Class 8 orders they’ll accept.
As ransomware attacks battered transportation and logistics companies in 2021, here are six things we learned about cybersecurity and freight.
La startup logra el santo grial del transporte autónomo
mostrando su “madurez comercial”
TuSimple achieved its goal of sending a Class 8 truck with no one in the cab on a nighttime run along Interstate 10 in Arizona.
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Suspending electric van production, converting debt to equity and reducing cash burn are among the new CEO’s early moves at the troubled Workhorse Group.
Traton Group is optimistic for future quarters as it posts solid nine-month results with recently acquired Navistar included for the first time.
After settling a class-action lawsuit over defective MaxxForce engines, Navistar agrees to pay the government for Clean Air Act violations.
With 14,200 reservations for its autonomous trucking software, Embark Trucks predicts it will surpass the first-year revenue target.
Last of major truck makers to launch an electric truck, Navistar places first five medium-duty eMV Series models with Penske Truck Leasing.
Truck manufacturer Navistar faces a data breach lawsuit after disclosing that sensitive information about 49,000 people may have been exposed in hack.
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NHTSA details new crash-data reporting requirements for self-driving trucks.
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TuSimple is sitting on $1.5 billion in cash as it ramps up hiring and expands its autonomous freight network.
Cummins is working with Air Products to convert about 2,000 trucks fore the world’s largest maker of hydrogen. gas
The cybercriminals who operate a dark web marketplace admit to hacking companies’ networks and stealing their data. But they say ransomware violates their moral code.
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Aurora Innovation gets a $10.6 billion enterprise value, the second highest of four autonomous driving software developers seeking to go public.
Supplier readiness is a key to Navistar and TuSimple achieving commercialization of a high-autonomy Class 8 truck in 2024.
Proterra has been making electric buses for more than a decade. It is also making batteries and charging infrastructure.
FMCSA is proposing to revise rules for advanced driver-assist cameras.