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ACT Expo 2025: Battery Experts Fret Tariffs, Encourage Specific Designs
There’s a chaotic elephant in almost every room of the 2025 Advanced Clean Transportation Expo: Tariffs and the Trump administration’s seemingly hostile approach to environmentally friendly technology like EVs and alternative energy sources. Read on to learn more about it.
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Clarios Brings AI to Idle Management for Heavy Trucks
The predominant low-voltage battery maker Clarios today announced that IdleLess, a sensor-and-AI-driven system for heavy-duty trucks that it says can save up to $3,300 per year per...
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Challenges and Opportunities of Electrifying Off-Highway Machines
The off-highway machine industry is embracing new technologies to optimize operations, specifically regarding electric and hybrid off-highway equipment. The electric...
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WXC 2025: GM’s Hydrotec-Based EV Charger Takes Center Stage
In 2022, General Motors announced that it was exploring commercial applications for its Hydrotec hydrogen fuel cells. Those efforts have culminated in a mobile hydrogen power...
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Hydrogen Is Hitting Some Headwinds
Nikola announced on February 19 that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and had begun pursuing “value-maximizing sale transactions” for its operations. Also a maker of battery-electric heavy...
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Propane Powers Ahead for Medium Duty Sector
The seemingly constant changing winds of North American emissions regulations have put many alternative propulsion-supplying OEMs on high alert over the first quarter of this year. However, not...
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Artificial Intelligence Being Schooled for Mining Applications
A battery-electric Honda midsize SUV entering production in early 2026 will use Helm.ai’s artificial intelligence to facilitate conditional automated driving. The start-up...
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Kalmar Launches 3rd-Gen Electric Terminal Tractor
Electric vehicle (EV) growth may be stagnant in certain market sectors amid pushback on EV mandates along with lingering infrastructure and TCO concerns, but in terminal tractor operations...
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Autonomous Quarry Haulage in High Demand
At Komatsu’s Quarry Days 2025 event at its Arizona Proving Grounds outside of Tucson, dealers, customers, and media got the opportunity to operate Komatsu mining and construction equipment, learn about its latest technology innovations, and talk to product experts. Read on to learn more.
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FPT’s Battery Pack Dives into Marine Market
FPT Industrial formed its ePowertrain department in 2018 and since has developed a range of electric drivelines, battery packs and battery management systems (BMS) targeting on-road commercial...
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Is Hydrogen Propulsion Production-Ready?
Hydrogen internal combustion engines (H2-ICE) and hydrogen fuel cells still have challenges to meet to bring production of commercial and off-highway vehicles to fruition. More than a high-level...
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Not Quite Your Father’s Cab
When New Holland developed its model year 2025 FR Forage Cruiser self-propelled forage harvester, the operator environment was top of mind, evidenced by the “more informative cab” leading the list of...
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The Intersection of Autonomy and Cybersecurity
The race to greater autonomy is on in the industrial and commercial transportation industry and for good reason. Autonomous vehicles have the potential to transform commercial trucking,...
Articles Energy
JLG Reveals New Electric Telehandler
JLG Industries has unveiled its first electric telehandler, the E313, designed for all-terrain and off-road use. The battery-powered E313 offers zero-emission and low-noise operation for moving...
Original Equipment Motion Control
Freightliner Unveils Latest Cascadia Class 8 Truck
Freightliner has unveiled the fifth generation of its Cascadia Class 8 truck. The new version is scheduled to begin production mid-2025 and reportedly offers new advanced safety features,...
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Hybrid Powertrains in the Product Mix
Perfect is the enemy of good. That aphorism embodies some of the frustrations voiced by trucking-industry companies and associations when it comes to satisfying lower greenhouse gas (GHG) and NOx...
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GM Defense Deploys Next Gen Tactical Vehicle
GM Defense has unveiled the future of its tactical vehicles with the Next Gen prototype, which was exhibited at the annual AUSA meeting in Washington, D.C. for the first time late last year.
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Study: Excessive Real-World NOx Emissions from HD Diesel Pickups
An eight-year study of in-use emissions from heavy-duty diesel pickups in Colorado and Virginia showed those vehicles to be emitting oxides of nitrogen (NOx) far in excess of...
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CES 2025: Cat Debuts Hybrid-Electric Retrofit on 972 Wheel Loader
A 55,000-lb (24,948-kg) front end loader with substantial field usage time underwent a 12-week hybrid-electric conversion in advance of its CES 2025 debut. “This...
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CES 2025: Oshkosh Puts AI, Autonomy and Electrification to Work
A multi-brand global company that serves several different industries marked its debut at one of the world’s largest technology exhibitions by highlighting its...
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CES 2025: Deere Advances Off-Highway Autonomy
With the pungent smell of garlic in the air and the threat of tremors from three major fault lines, a select group of journalists invited to John Deere’s Gilroy, California, test center in...
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Bosch Sees Two Paths Forward for On-Road Hydrogen Trucks
The incoming Republican White House administration is expected to significantly alter regulations that impact the country’s transportation sector. Emissions regulations may change,...
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Improving the Ageless ICE
Agriculture, industrial, mining, construction, freight transport and other major global economy sectors rely on vehicle power to thrive. “Internal combustion engines – those powered by gasoline, diesel,...
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SwRI Rolls out Hydrogen Demonstration Truck
For decades, the running joke around hydrogen being a viable fuel for commercial trucks has been that its “ten years away from being ten years away.” Though H2-fueled rigs operating at scale...
Technical Innovation Energy
CATL Expands Battery Range for Heavy-Duty Trucks and Buses
Chinese battery manufacturer CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd.) completed the launch of its TECTRANS battery system for the commercial transport sector at IAA...
Technical Innovation Energy
Donaldson Filters Keep Fuel Cells Clean
One of the advantages of the internal combustion engine is that it can function with relatively simple intake air filtration. Provided that dust is kept out, air entering the engine can ensure that...
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