The Chanje V8070’s ground-up design as an electric truck for the U.S. market gives it an edge. He added that the evolving economics of this class of fleet electric vehicle should allow it to compete at “price parity” with existing diesel models because of lower operating costs.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, with Efficient Drivetrains Inc., think they may have a solution to power problems in the industry’s first plug-in hybrid Class 6 truck.
Daimler Trucks and its subsidiary, Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus, debuted the E-Fuso Vision One electric heavy-duty truck at Tokyo Motor Show.
According to Daimler, the Mitsubishi Fuso eCanter is the world’s first series-produced all-electric medium-duty truck.
Toyota didn’t get to be one of the largest automotive companies in the world by thinking small. So, a Toyota fuel cell-powered Class 8 truck should only be slightly surprising.
General Motors presented its Silent Utility Rover Universal Superstructure (SURUS), a flexible fuel cell electric platform with autonomous capabilities, at this week’s meeting of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA).
A new startup called Chanje (pronounced “change”) jumped into the electric vehicle (EV) market, but not with a vehicle you might expect. In its inaugural press release, Chanje unveiled its first vehicle: a commercial, all-electric Class 5 van called V8070.
Robert Bollinger, founder of Bollinger Motors, wanted to build an electric vehicle that focused more on what it could do, rather than what statement the car could make. The result is the B1 electric sport utility truck.
So in the end what may seem like the obvious next step for school buses–going electric–is going to take some time, but it’s already started.
We’re not saying we have reached a tipping point in a shift to heavy-duty EVs, but the movement reached a high water mark at the 2017 ACT Expo.