by dankeelan | Jun 27, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Trucks
The trucking industry appears ready to embrace SAE Level 4 technology that would permit driverless operations along predetermined, geofenced routes, allowing the industry to address driver shortages and ever-rising e-commerce freight volumes. But after a few...
by dankeelan | May 30, 2024 | Featured, Hydrogen, Trucks
Honda introduced its Class 8 Hydrogen Fuel Cell Truck Concept at the Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo, showcasing the start of a new demonstration project aimed at future production of fuel cell-powered products for the North American market. This exposition...
by dankeelan | May 20, 2024 | Featured, Fuel Cell, Hydrogen, Trucks
from Digital Trends Honda remains committed to hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, but the market for those vehicles remains limited. So Honda is looking at other uses for fuel cells — including commercial trucks. To show how that could work, Honda converted a semi truck to...
by dankeelan | May 16, 2024 | Diesel, Energy, Hybrids, Trucks
When full-size pickup trucks were first equipped with diesel engines in the late 1970s, it wasn’t part of an effort to post huge performance numbers. Instead, General Motors’ much-maligned 350-cubic-inch diesel V8 was tuned primarily to sip fuel and spun out a paltry...
by dankeelan | Apr 11, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Trucks
Kodiak Robotics launched an advisory council to bolster its efforts to commercialize autonomous trucks with the help of trucking industry leaders, the company announced March 27. The Kodiak Industry Advisory Council will focus on product development, deployment...
by dankeelan | Apr 4, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Transportation, Trucks
Perched in the cab of a 35,000-pound semi-truck lumbering south on Interstate 45, AJ Jenkins watched the road while the big rig’s steering wheel slid through his hands. Jenkins was in the driver’s seat, but he wasn’t driving. The gigantic 18-wheeler was guiding...
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