Category: Engines & Drivetrains

ATLIS MOTOR VEHICLES AND VCST ANNOUNCE e-DRIVE COLLABORATION TO SUPPORT ELECTRIC VEHICLE COMMERCIALIZATION

ATLIS MOTOR VEHICLES AND VCST ANNOUNCE e-DRIVE COLLABORATION TO SUPPORT ELECTRIC VEHICLE COMMERCIALIZATION

| April 20, 2022

Collaboration integrates electric gearbox modules to help increase efficiency, range and enable true work truck performance characteristics  Atlis Motor Vehicles (ATLIS), a start-up mobility technology company developing an electric work truck and the batteries and motors to drive it, announced an effort with VCST, a world-class automotive supplier of powertrain components, to support its product development. […]

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Acela Truck Company Introduces First Custom-Designed 4×4, High Mobility, Cab-Over Wildland Urban Interface Fire Truck Chassis

Acela Truck Company Introduces First Custom-Designed 4×4, High Mobility, Cab-Over Wildland Urban Interface Fire Truck Chassis

| April 20, 2022

Straya 4×4 is a purpose-built wildland/urban interface fire truck chassis. Its cab-over design and military-grade performance offers best-in-class maneuverability  Acela Truck Company high-mobility truck chassis manufacturing, is introducing its new Acela Straya four-wheel drive, high mobility, cab-over, 19,500# GVWR truck chassis in North America. The Straya is the first ever purpose-built wildland/urban interface fire truck chassis.  […]

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Near-Zero Heavy-Duty Diesel Engine Enters Fleet Service

Near-Zero Heavy-Duty Diesel Engine Enters Fleet Service

| April 19, 2022

The Achates Power ULNOx Heavy-Duty demonstration truck has entered fleet service with Walmart Achates Power has announced that the cleaner, heavy-duty diesel engine it developed in a project funded by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and several partners has entered fleet service with WALMART Corporation in a Peterbilt 579 tractor. It is the only […]

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Carrier Transicold Adds Fully Autonomous, All-Electric Vector eCool Sustainable Solution

Carrier Transicold Adds Fully Autonomous, All-Electric Vector eCool Sustainable Solution

| April 19, 2022

This fully electric trailer refrigeration unit operates autonomously without the need for a diesel engine As Carrier continues to gain momentum with its all-electric transport refrigeration offerings worldwide, its Vector eCool™ units are now available and on the roads of Australia. Carrier Transicold is a part of Carrier Global Corporation (NYSE: CARR), the leading global […]

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Clean Energy Expands Sustainable Fueling with Contracts for Renewable Natural Gas, More Dairy Development Projects

Clean Energy Expands Sustainable Fueling with Contracts for Renewable Natural Gas, More Dairy Development Projects

| April 15, 2022

Estes Express Lines, the nation’s largest privately-owned freight transportation carrier, is deploying an additional 100 natural gas trucks Clean Energy Fuels Corp. continues to meet the growing demand for renewable natural gas (RNG), a sustainable transportation fuel made from organic waste, with new fueling contracts, infrastructure expansions, and RNG production projects. “More fleets are finding […]

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Fuel Retail Industry Commends Year-Round E15 Sales; Urges Administration to Address Additional Barriers

Fuel Retail Industry Commends Year-Round E15 Sales; Urges Administration to Address Additional Barriers

| April 14, 2022

Industry cautioned, however, that ongoing impediments related to infrastructure compatibility could limit market penetration of higher blends of ethanol being sold NATSO, representing truckstops, travel plazas and off-highway fuel retailers, and SIGMA: America’s Leading Fuel Marketers commended the Biden Administration for permitting year-round sales of gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol (E15). The industry cautioned, however, […]

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