Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2020

Meritor, a leading global supplier of drivetrain, mobility, braking and aftermarket solutions for commercial vehicle and industrial markets, has acquired all the outstanding common shares of Transportation Power (TransPower), a provider of electrification technologies for large commercial vehicles. Earlier post.).

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Peterbilt Energy Storage California Commercial 170

Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2016

The Loop heavy­duty powertrain combines an electric battery with a hydrogen fuel cell designed around its patented eFlow technology. Loop says that its powertrain is ideally suited for urban freight applications, such as yard trucks and delivery trucks operating at commercial distribution centres, and drayage trucks operating at ports.

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Fuel Peterbilt Energy Batteries 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2020

Agility Fuel Solutions (Agility), a leading global provider of clean fuel solutions for medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles, introduced the new fifth-generation ProRail CNG fuel system. Gen5 ProRail installed on a Peterbilt 567. ProRail systems are installed on one or both sides of the vehicle’s frame rail.

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Fuel Peterbilt Carbon Fiber Fuel Economy 243

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2015

XALT Energy and Efficient Drivetrains (EDI) announced a tentative agreement through which XALT will supply EDI with its NMC graphite Lithium-ion battery energy storage packs for use in EDI’s PHEV PowerDrive and electric power export solutions. The packs will be used for commercial truck fleet replacement orders.

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Li-ion PHEV Supplies Lithium Ion 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2010

CPI), a wholly-owned US subsidiary of LG Chem, to provide batteries for certain future Eaton hybrid electric drive systems. The announcement was made today during a groundbreaking celebration at CPI’s new battery cell manufacturing facility in Holland that was attended by President Barack Obama and Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm.

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Eaton Power Powered Hybrid 218

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

recently entered into a five-year agreement with Western Michigan University (WMU) to invest in and jointly staff a 1,000-square-foot testing lab to focus on hybrid drive systems for commercial and military vehicles. Eaton Corp. Eaton hybrid power systems have accumulated more than 30 million miles of road-tested service around the world.

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Eaton Michigan Universal Commercial 199

Teslarati

JANUARY 19, 2023

Frito-Lay called it a template for and an aid to help accelerate the continued proliferation of large-scale commercialization of zero-energy and net-zero energy technologies at freight facilities and warehouses. megawatt-hours of on-site battery storage. Six Peterbilt 220EV electric box trucks. 12 Crown Li-ion forklifts.

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Tesla Peterbilt Energy Storage Li-ion 138

Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2021

announced a long-term supply agreement with PACCAR, the manufacturer of light-, medium- and heavy-duty trucks under the Kenworth, Peterbilt and DAF nameplates, to provide battery packs, modules and battery management systems (BMS) for PACCAR’s battery electric vehicles (BEVs). Romeo Power, Inc.

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Peterbilt Supplies Kenworth Power 221

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The goal of CARB’s Zero and Near Zero Emission Freight Facility program is to support transformative, cost-effective clean technologies that can be adopted by other freight facilities and accelerate the commercialization of these technologies statewide. Project partners will provide $22.9 million in matching funds. Partner match: $15.4

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Clean Cleaning Transportation San Francisco 191

Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2017

million miles in a commercial fleet setting of city buses, and has been deployed across major North American OEMs including International, Freightliner, and Peterbilt platforms. The EDI PowerDrive 6000 has been durability tested over 1.5 The truck offers 20+ miles of all electric range, and a top speed of 65 mph.

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PHEV Range Peterbilt Gas-Electric 170

Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2016

This is the first large-scale demonstration of zero-emission Class 8 trucks that involves major manufacturers, including BYD, Kenworth, Peterbilt (both Paccar companies) and Volvo. Full battery-electric trucks will be developed by BYD and a team consisting of Peterbilt and California start-up TransPower.

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Peterbilt Kenworth California BYD 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2014

At the Mid-America Trucking show, PACCAR companies Kenworth and Peterbilt introduced more fuel efficient version of their heavy-duty models: the Kenworth T680 Advantage and the Peterbilt Model 579 with EPIQ package. Production of the commercial model began this month. Peterbilt Model 579 with EPIQ. Click to enlarge.

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Kenworth Peterbilt Eaton Fuel 275

Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2019

Allison Transmission, a global leader in medium- and heavy-duty propulsion solutions for commercial vehicles, introduced the new AXE Series e-axle systems for medium- and heavy-duty trucks at the Advanced Clean Technology (ACT) Expo in Long Beach, CA. —David S. Graziosi, Allison Transmission President and CEO.

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Peterbilt Long Beach Commercial International 220

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2019

has 22 electrification programs with global OEMs that the company expects to put at least 130 fully electric medium- and heavy-duty commercial trucks on the road through 2020. Meritor’s eCarrier platform ( earlier post ) integrates an electric motor into the axle, freeing up space for batteries and other components. Meritor, Inc.

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2020 Global Peterbilt California 239

Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Newsom signed a funding bill to invest $106 million in the construction of additional hydrogen stations through the end of the decade, for the first time backing stations for commercial vehicles as well as passenger cars. Through a chemical process, electricity is created to power the motor and (alternately) charge a lithium-ion battery.

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Toyota Hydrogen Lexus California 64

Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Commercial Zero-Emission Vehicle Investors Challenged, But Industry Moves On. This is happening amid struggles to overcome manufacturing obstacles, raw materials shortages and the uptick in conventional battery-powered cars. Even with all it’s gone through, Nikola has managed to produce and deliver 93 battery-electric semis.

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Conversion Re-Charge Peterbilt Emissions 83