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Tesla Semi heads to three-week peformance event to assess EV fleets

Teslarati

While there will be twenty-one commercial EVs at the event, the Semi seems to be the highlight of the entire event. The event will also be looking at things like total electric energy and fuel for all trucks on each day, and what that will mean in total energy usage once all Class 8 trucks are converted to EVs.

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Volvo Trucks North America demonstrates pilot electric VNR models; Volvo LIGHTS

Green Car Congress

Volvo Trucks North America offered a first look at its Class 8 battery-electric project trucks during an exclusive event at TEC Equipment dealership in Fontana, California. The Volvo LIGHTS project was made possible by an award to South Coast AQMD of $44.8 Earlier post.) Earlier post.) Volvo Group contributed $36.7

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2025 Mercedes-Benz G-Class works on its quads (motors, that is)

Baua Electric

With the electric version of its military-grade G-Class, Mercedes-Benz promises even more freedom from pavement than all those American-built flagwavers, and it does it all with batteries. Joining the G-Class in the 2025 model year will be this G 580 with EQ Technology—not, as had been speculated, the “EQG.” It lights up a 12.3-inch

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Mercedes-Benz launching capacitive steering wheel in E-Class this summer

Green Car Congress

This summer, the Mercedes-Benz E-Class will introduce a new, comprehensively digitalized generation of steering wheel: the capacitive steering wheel. These direction indicators, which seem bizarre from today’s perspective, were replaced by orange-yellow flashing lights which were activated by turning the ring via a central control unit.

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Event: Ford Bronco Sport Off-Roadeo

Clean Fleet Report

Event: Ford Bronco Sport Off-Roadeo Experiencing the Bronco Sport in the Wild When Ford debuted the all-new Bronco Sport in 2021, it said it was “Built Wild.” In addition, we are often invited to manufacturer events highlighting new vehicles or technology. As part of these events we may be offered free transportation, lodging or meals.

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Mercedes-Benz further expands Car-to-X communication; pothole detection

Green Car Congress

New C-Class and S-Class models as well as the EQS ( earlier post ) can detect potholes or speed bumps. If the chassis control unit registers such an event, and the “Car-to-X Communication” service is activated, the information is sent to the Mercedes-Benz Cloud in real time via the mobile phone network, together with positional data.

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Letting in the Light

Electric Auto Association

TEVA chapter member Mark Smith gives technician training class in India. Gerhardt had joined with Ed Benjamin of the Light Electric Vehicle Association (LEVA) to offer training programs—and certification— to aspiring ebike mechanics. Today, he [Benjamin] teaches the online classes, and we evolved the hands-on,” Smith said.

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