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Kenworth Adds Cummins Westport ISL G Natural Gas Engine to Product Line

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Kenworth Truck Company is expanding its product line with the introduction of the Cummins Westport ISL G natural gas engine for the Kenworth T800 short hood and W900S models. Now available for order, Kenworth's natural gas models are focused on vocational, municipal, and pickup and delivery applications.

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Aurora enters long-term, global, strategic collaboration with Toyota and Denso for self-driving cars at scale

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Autonomous driving software company Aurora has entered a long-term, global, and strategic collaboration with Toyota and Denso, one of the largest global manufacturers and tier-one automotive suppliers, respectively, to build and globally deploy self-driving cars at scale. Earlier post.).

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Ideanomics to acquire wireless charging provider WAVE

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Wireless charging systems offer several benefits over plug-in-based charging systems, including reduced maintenance, improved health and safety, and expedited energy connection. Ideanomics is a global company focused on the convergence of financial services and industries experiencing technological disruption.

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Emerging Fleet Trends—Going Electric

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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. Using a Fleet Management Company.

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AMP Americas in deal with two national dairy cooperatives to build 7 CNG fueling stations, bring in more Class 8 CNG trucks

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The stations, which will be built in Waco, Amarillo, Harrold, Sweetwater, Weatherford, Kerrville and Midland, will initially fuel forty new Class-8 Kenworth and Peterbilt CNG sleeper trucks, a number that will double over the course of the agreement. million miles per year, servicing routes throughout Texas.

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UPS to invest $130M in > 700 natural gas vehicles and infrastructure; > $1B invested in alt fuels since 2008

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Carlton Rose, president, global fleet maintenance and engineering for UPS. The company is the largest consumer of RNG in the transportation sector. Four hundred semi-tractors will be supplied by Freightliner and Kenworth and 330 terminal trucks by TICO. Last year, UPS used 15 million gallon equivalents of RNG. Plainfield, Ind.;

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Odyne Systems delivers 7 plug-in hybrid work trucks through the Wisconsin Clean Transportation Program

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The Odyne plug-in hybrid drive system reduces fleet operating and maintenance costs, and depending on duty cycle, enables large trucks to obtain significant fuel economy improvements compared to traditional diesel engines. The trucks are used for construction and maintenance of the Marshfield utility grid. Manufactured by DUECO, Inc.

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