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Business

Things that aren’t in the news, but should be

“The same people who don’t hesitate to sit in the fuel island for 30 minutes will lose their mind trying to get out of the parking lot. It’s like a switch is flipped from ‘Nope, not moving,’ to ‘GOTTAGOFAST!’ (The first person to blame this on ELDs gets a throat chop.)” …

November 20, 2017

Business

Tesla to unveil electric Class 8 tractor this week

Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk on Sunday tweeted that the company’s electric semi will make its debut Thursday night.

November 13, 2017

Business

First look at Tesla semi? Unauthorized photo posted to Reddit

Tesla’s in-development Class 8 electric tractor, which is scheduled to be unveiled later this month, appears to have been spotted in an undisclosed location in California — the picture from which was posted to Reddit this weekend, though later removed.

October 4, 2017

Business

NTSB: Trucker partially to blame in fatal 2016 crash involving Tesla sedan operating autonomously

NTSB concluded the driver of the tractor-trailer involved in the crash failed to yield the right of way to the oncoming Tesla sedan. A post-crash drug test also revealed the truck operator had used marijuana before the crash, according to NTSB’s report.

September 13, 2017

Business

Cummins reveals all-electric tractor prototype

Cummins on Tuesday became the latest company to introduce an all-electric tractor, unveiling — just weeks ahead of an expected electric truck introduction from electric vehicle pioneer Tesla — a Class 7 concept tractor.

August 29, 2017

Business

Tesla’s electric big rig will also be autonomous, reports indicate

Reports indicate Tesla’s electric big rig, slated for reveal in September, will autonomous capabilities. The company is said to have met with California officials this week to discuss testing its autonomous electric trucks on the state’s roadways.

August 10, 2017

Business

Jump start: Electrified truck concepts come to life, and owner-operators want in

The electrified truck concept has taken on a real life, with players large and small vying for future shares of the Class 8 market. It’s not only large fleets that are placing orders — owner-operators, too, have shown interest in the emerging technology.

July 5, 2017

Business

Cummins plans electric powertrain for short-haul applications, long-haul still a ways off

Cummins announced Wednesday evening in a teleconference it will introduce a fully electrified powertrain for the urban transportation market by 2019 and a range-extended electrified powertrain by 2020.

June 16, 2017

Business

Nikola mulling per-mile pricing system for hydrogen-powered tractor, says testing to begin next fall

Nikola unveiled the 1,000-hp fully electric rig last year. The company says it produces no emissions and can operate up to 1,200 miles before its hydrogen fuel cell needs to be replaced.

May 11, 2017

Business

Tesla rendering teases electric big rig

“It’s meant to alleviate the heavy-duty trucking loads,” says Tesla’s Elon Musk. “This is something which people do not today think is possible. The think the truck doesn’t have enough power or it doesn’t have enough range. With the Tesla semi, we want to show than an electric truck actually can out-torque any diesel semi.”

May 3, 2017

Equipment

Tesla says it will unveil an electric truck this year

Tesla co-founder Elon Musk originally announced the “Tesla Semi” in a blog post last summer, saying the truck “will deliver a substantial reduction in the cost of cargo transport, while increasing safety and making it really fun to operate.”

April 17, 2017

Channel 19

An ‘Autonomous Trap’: The limits of technology, illustrated

A new video is a a fairly cheeky expression of the limits of technology in the face of the human mind and its proclivities for art, invention and persistence, by British artist James Bridle, trapping an autonomous car in a salt circle. Might it work on auto-trucks as well? …

March 21, 2017