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Volvo Trucks Customer QCD orders 30 more VNR Electric trucks for Southern California fleet

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In early 2023, the battery-electric Class 8 trucks will be deployed in QCD’s Southern California fleet operations delivering products to restaurants and coffee shops throughout Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. Located in the St.

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How to Choose the Right Vehicle for Your Fleet

Clean Fleet Report

In the complex logistical ballet of modern commerce, fleet vehicles serve as the lifeblood of countless enterprises, ranging from the acrobatics of urban delivery services to the steadfast endurance of long-haul transport. What are the daily demands of your fleet operation?

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Emerging Fleet Trends—Going Electric

Clean Fleet Report

Converting Fleets to EVs and Adding Roadside Assistance. EVs make a lot of sense for commercial fleets with reduced fuel and maintenance costs and batteries that can be sized to a specific route to eliminate range anxiety. Companies making near and long-range plans for their fleets are no longer merely thinking gasoline or diesel.

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Mercedes eSprinter review, Aptera funding, Tesla California sales, EV crash course: Today’s Car News

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In a first drive of the 2024 Mercedes-Benz eSprinter electric van , we saw how businesses and fleet managers are going to run out of excuses, as diesel’s living on borrowed time. As a sales roundup released this past week by dealers in California pointed out, EV sales from franchised dealerships were way up 94% from 2022 to 2023.

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Two Volvo Trucks carriers, Producers Dairy order VNR electric trucks

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By the end of 2021, the Virginia-based fleets will utilize the zero tailpipe emission trucks to transport inbound parts and components daily to the Volvo Trucks New River Valley Assembly Operations (NRV) in Dublin, Virginia, where every Volvo truck in North America is assembled.

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2022 Los Angeles Auto Show Review

Clean Fleet Report

We reviewed the last year of this small but fun EV, noting its limitations, not the least of which was an 84-mile driving range. We expect it to be a blast to drive, and will review it when we have the chance to get behind the wheel. The 911 Dakar will be in dealers in Spring 2023, with a base price of $223,450.

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Nikola voluntarily recalls 209 Class 8 battery-electric trucks over battery safety issue; temporary hold on BEV sales

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Extensive internal and third party-led hypothesis testing, employee and contractor interviews, and hours of video footage review has since suggested foul play or other external factors were unlikely to have caused the incident. Nikola Truck Safety.

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