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Harbinger EV startup medium trucks NAIAS 2022
Harbinger EV truck Jack Schroeder | Harbinger A new Los Angeles-based electric vehicle startup founded by veterans of Canoo and QuantumScape said Wednesday it’s preparing to shake up the medium-...
LG’s $4.4B Battery Plant, Taming Volcanic Brine And More Fuel Cells For Trucks
This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. Corbis via Getty Images Last weekend, I r...
Rivian’s Losses Nearly Triple to $1.7 Billion
Rivian Automotive Inc. reported its net loss in the second quarter nearly tripled to $1.7 billion, further pressuring the electric-vehicle startup to conserve cash and move quickly to fill customer or...
Hyundai to export heavy-duty hydrogen electric trucks to Germany
An XCIENT Fuel Cell truck photographed in South Korea on Nov. 10, 2021. A number of firms in the trucking sector are exploring ways to develop vehicles that use hydrogen. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | G...
Ford reports big jump in July sales, including for trucks and EVs
Ford F-150 Lightning at the 2022 New York Auto Show. Scott Mlyn | CNBC DETROIT – Ford Motor’s U.S. vehicle sales last month showed notable improvements in volumes and truck availability, as the ...
Toyota plans to develop light duty hydrogen fuel-cell trucks
A Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel cell vehicle photographed in Berlin, Germany, in August 2021. The Japanese automotive giant started working on the development of fuel-cell vehicles back in 1992. Krisztia...
Pickup Trucks Remain The Most Popular Vehicles Among Both Consumers And Car Thieves
The Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck was the most-stolen vehicle last year, according to the … [+] National Insurance Crime Bureau. Getty Images It should come as no surprise that the top sellin...
How To Avoid The Highest High Prices On New Cars And Trucks
2023 Toyota Corolla Hatchback Photo: Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. Downsizing is an obvious way for shoppers to try and avoid the most excessive prices for new cars and trucks, yet the trend to bigger and...
California Truckers Struggle to Comply With New Employment Law
Trucking companies and truck owner-operators are scrambling to figure out how to operate under a new California law that toughens definitions of nonemployee drivers, upending decadeslong practices tha...
Rivian Electric Trucks Outsell Ford F-150 Lightning, Stock Soars
Text size Rivian delivered 4,467 vehicles in the second quarter, up 264% from the first quarter. Courtesy Rivian Rivian Automotive gave investors an update on production that quickly sent the stock hi...
Why driving big rig trucks is a job fewer Americans dream about doing
A Walmart truck departs the company’s distribution center in Washington, Utah. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images In April, Walmart made headlines by announcing that it will pay its private fl...
Daimler Trucks says it’s facing enormous supply chain pressure
Supply chain disruptions are still rippling across the globe, and the head of the world’s largest truck maker has warned that parts shortages are slowing the production of thousands of its vehic...
Volvo has started testing trucks with fuel cells powered by hydrogen
According to Volvo Trucks, fuel cells for the vehicles will be provided by cellcentric, a joint venture with Daimler Truck that was established in March 2021. Tomohiro Ohsumi | Bloomberg | Getty Image...
Convoy Of Self-Driving Trucks About To Put The Hammer Down
Autonomous trucking is arriving ahead of schedule and not a moment too soon. It’s happening, along desolate highway stretches, largely in the southwest – heavy-duty 18-wheelers are test-piloting thems...
Convoy Trucks Will Be The First Autonomous Semi-Trucks To Reach Market
Semi-trucks operated in an autonomous convoy Locomation Media Kit There is no doubt that autonomous semi-trucks will change the face of logistics. But there are questions that many would like clarity ...
Gatik, Georgia-Pacific And KBX Announce Commercial Partnership For Driverless Trucks Serving Sam’s Club Stores
Gatik’s Autonomous Class 6 Truck posing for a glamour shot in front of their new delivery point … [+] Sam’s Club. Gatik Automated Driving System developer Gatik, a pioneer in middle ...
Rivian’s Great EV Expectations Meet the Harsh Reality of Manufacturing
At Rivian Automotive Inc.’s factory in Normal, Ill., life is anything but. Car factories around the world routinely churn out models around the clock. About eight months after production on Rivian’s e...
New Cars And Trucks, And The Dealerships That Sell Them, Too
High profits have auto dealerships selling like hotcakes. Getty Images Auto dealers are knocking on wood, but so far, nothing much seems to be making a dent in the current streak of record profits for...
Electric Trucks Can Fight Inflation – And Petro-State Dictators Like Putin
Electric truck being charging at charging station. 3D rendering image. getty Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has cost tens of thousands of lives and produced a stream of devastating images documenting th...
The Best Investment Right Now Might Actually Be Used Cars Or Trucks
Used cars are displayed on a sales lot in San Francisco, California. As the industry continues to … [+] deal with multiple issues, demand and prices of used cars have risen significantly over th...
Electric Trucks, Lower Prices, Familiar Brands, Fire Up EV Interest
2024 Silverado EV RST Photo: Chevrolet More auto shoppers are considering electric vehicles, with the rise in electric trucks, electric vehicles from established “legacy” brands, and more-affordable E...
EV truck battle heats up as Ford delivers first F-150 trucks; F stock goes up
Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) seemingly delighted a retail customer in Standish, Michigan, by making its first delivery of the F-150 Lightning truck. Allegedly, the customer is a Tesla Model 3 owner wh...
Rivian recalls some R1T trucks over child airbag defect
Rivian R1T Field pickup Source: Rivian Rivian Automotive is recalling some of its electric pickups because of an airbag defect that could injure a child in a crash, according to a letter from the Nati...
Kodiak Robotics Reveals Self-Curbing System For Broke Autonomous Trucks
Kodiak Robotics, Inc. unveiled its Fallback technology for detecting issues in its autonomous trucks … [+] and automatically guiding it to the side of the road and call for help. Kodiak Robotics...
AI Upstart Waabi Adding Self-Driving Veterans In Race To Commercialize Robot Trucks
The Toronto-based company is expanding to add hardware engineers to integrate sensors, lidar, vision and computing systems into trucks as it shifts to real-world testing. Waabi, an autonomous driving ...
Ford Hurries Out F-150 Lightning to Grab Share of Electrics Market
The latest electric vehicles offer the power to charge household devices or other EVs using the energy stored in the car’s battery. WSJ’s George Downs explores how some companies are developing vehicl...
Union Pacific incrementally took share from trucks in its fiscal Q1
Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP) opened nearly 2.0% up on Thursday after reporting solid results for its Q1. Shares, however, gave up the intraday gain later as the railroad company said fuel pri...
Texas Ends Rule That Left Trucks Waiting For Hours To Cross Mexico Border
Topline After eight days, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) Friday repealed an order requiring enhanced inspections of vehicles entering the state through the Mexico border—a measure Abbott said was necessar...
Big electric trucks and SUVs are the new gas guzzlers — Quartz
New lines of electric trucks and SUVs are hitting the roads. Automakers are marketing vehicles like Tesla’s Cybertruck, Ford’s F-150 Lightning, Rivian’s R1T pickup truck, and GMC’s Hummer EV to custom...