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Road Test: 2025 Ford F-150 Lightning SuperCrew Pro 4X4

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Ford held focus groups to ask truck owners a wide range of questions about trucks. The focus groups liked never having to buy gasoline or diesel again or have the cost and hassle of tune-ups and other conventional truck maintenance. Not electric trucks, but trucks. Story and photos by John Faulkner. [

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Does the manual gearbox have a future in an EV world?

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BEVs currently only have a single speed transmission, confirmed Autovista Group senior residual value analyst Robert Redman. Many brands are streamlining, and therefore not offering a manual transmission option, confirmed Ralf Sulzbach, senior project manager consulting at Autovista Group.

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Flash Drive: 2026 Toyota BZ EV

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Because of this we dont address issues such as long-term reliability or total cost of ownership. Disclosure Clean Fleet Report is loaned free test vehicles from automakers to evaluate, typically for a week at a time. Our road tests are based on this one-week drive of a new vehicle.

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UMTRI study finds total cost of ownership of diesels in US often much less than gasoline counterparts

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Though there are some exceptions to these positive results for some of the diesel versions of vehicles from a total-cost-of-ownership perspective, the overall direction of the results supports the idea that diesel vehicles are competitive within the U.S.

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Volvo Penta, TICO complete build of prototype electric terminal tractor

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The Volvo Group recently announced its ambition to be a net-zero emissions company by 2050, at the latest. The Group is now committing to the Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTI), with targets and roadmaps established this year. Several prototypes will be built and tested by the two parties over the coming year.

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Pride Group orders 100 Lion electric trucks; Lion’s largest order to date

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Lion Electric (Lion), a manufacturer of all-electric medium- and heavy-duty urban vehicles, received a purchase order from Pride Group Enterprises (Pride) for the acquisition of 100 all-electric Lion6 and Lion8 trucks. The order represents Lion’s largest single order of zero-emission trucks to date.

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UPS collaborating with Workhorse to deploy 50 electric trucks; rivaling acquisition cost of conventional; no subsidies

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UPS plans to deploy 50 plug-in electric delivery trucks that will be comparable in acquisition cost to conventional-fueled trucks without any subsidies—an industry first that would breaki a key barrier to large scale adoption of electric fleets. The company is collaborating with Workhorse Group, Inc.