article thumbnail

Daimler Truck North America delivers first electric Freightliner eM2 box trucks – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

The company’s two eM2s, with 26-foot-long box bodies, will operate out of its Cleveland terminal as part of its less-than-truckload freight business. It is designed for pickup and delivery applications. The Freightliner eM2 has typical ranges of 180 miles for Class 6 and 250 miles for Class 7.

article thumbnail

IHS Markit sees supply crunch coming for electrical steel; potential disruptor of OEM electrification plans

Green Car Congress

Cleveland-Cliffs is the only US producer of NOES via its 2020 acquisition of AK Steel; Cliff’s NOES and GOES manufacturing share common production equipment. Cleveland-Cliffs is focused more on GOES production to address the increasing regional demand for electrical transformers, thus reducing available xEV-grade NOES capacity.

Supplies 243
article thumbnail

Nuvera breaks ground on automated fuel cell production facility in China

Green Car Congress

which designs, engineers, manufactures, sells, and services a comprehensive line of lift trucks and aftermarket parts marketed globally primarily under the Hyster and Yale brand names. and its subsidiaries, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, employ approximately 7,800 people worldwide. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling, Inc.

China 150
article thumbnail

NASA and Virgin Orbit 3D print, test rocket combustion chamber

Green Car Congress

The company partnered with NASA experts in combustion and additive manufacturing (3D printing) at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama; Glenn Research Center in Cleveland; and Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. We can reduce that time considerably. GRCop-84 (Cu-8 at.%

Alabama 381
article thumbnail

NASA, Aerojet Rocketdyne hot fire test rocket engine injector made by 3-D printing

Green Car Congress

NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland conducted the successful tests for Aerojet Rocketdyne through a non-reimbursable Space Act Agreement. Aerojet Rocketdyne designed and fabricated the injector by a method that employs high-powered laser beams to melt and fuse fine metallic powders into three dimensional structures. Credit: NASA.

Cleveland 236
article thumbnail

UPS to add more than 6,000 natural gas trucks 2020-2022; $450M investment

Green Car Congress

As part of the new agreement, Agility will provide complete end-to-end natural gas systems for heavy-duty gas trucks, terminal tractors and medium-duty walk-in vans, which are UPS’s familiar brown delivery trucks. Houston, Texas, and Cleveland, Ohio.

Gas 223
article thumbnail

Alcoa opens 3D printing metal powder plant

Green Car Congress

Located at the Alcoa Technology Center, the world’s largest light metals research center, the plant will produce proprietary titanium, nickel and aluminum powders optimized for 3D printed aerospace parts. Alcoa also has invested in a range of technologies to further develop additive processes, product design and qualification.

Cleveland 150