Pickup Trucks

  • 2019 Chevrolet Volt

    General Motors announced it would kill the Chevrolet Volt in mid-2019. Rivian revealed its good-looking electric truck. A new report details how much climate change will hurt the U.S. economy. And new solid-state batteries from China. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Following other announcements from competitive automakers, GM announced that it will cut several cars from its lineup to focus on more profitable crossovers and SUVs. Among those that will be cut is the first modern plug-in car, the Chevrolet Volt. Rivian showed pictures and revealed additional specs of its first...

  • Rivian R1T electric pickup concept
    Rivian R1T all-electric pickup revealed: 400-mile range, 160-kw DC fast charging

    With the Rivian R1T pickup revealed this morning, just ahead of the Los Angeles auto show, and the R1S SUV expected to be shown here this week, a Michigan-based electric-vehicle startup called Rivian might have something that’s been a long time coming: the first widely available fully...

  • Western Star semi tractor used to promote Fitzgerald Glider Kits
    EPA announces tighter smog regulations on heavy trucks

    The EPA has loosened or eliminated a lot of regulations since President Trump took office, but last week the agency announced it would tighten regulations on emissions of nitrogen oxides from heavy trucks such as semis. The EPA notes that smog-forming NOx emissions from heavy trucks fell 40 percent...

  • Ford partners with Walmart for self-driving delivery service
    Toyota Corolla Hybrid, Tesla Autopilot safety, Rivian pickup: Today's Car News

    Toyota announces it will build a hybrid version of the Corolla. Rivian teases images of its upcoming electric pickup. Mercedes-Benz launches a consumer fuel-cell test fleet. And we crunch the accident-rate numbers on Tesla's Autopilot. All this and more on Green Car Reports. At a California event...

  • Rivian R1T electric pickup concept teaser
    Rivian teases electric pickup and SUV planned for LA auto show

    A new startup automaker, Rivian, plans to beat Tesla to the punch with an electric pickup truck. After years of stealth, the company is finally poised to reveal its new pickup and SUV at the LA auto show later this month. This week, the company set up a media site complete with space for pictures...

  • Nissan Frontier Sentinel concept  -  São Paulo auto show
    Nissan Frontier pickup made mission-ready with two Leaf battery packs

    In a concept vehicle for the São Paulo Motor Show, Nissan has outfitted its local-market Frontier pickup with two Leaf battery packs—creating what it’s calling the Frontier Sentinel. But it’s not anything close to what you might suspect. The Sentinel isn’t...

  • XL Hybrids Ford F-250 XL3 Hybrid

    There's no way to save more fuel than to do it in something that already uses a lot of it. That's what hybrid truck "upfitter" XL aims to do by adding hybrid and even plug-in hybrid systems to Ford pickups. On Tuesday, the Massachusetts-based company announced that it received certification to sell its F-250 Hybrid in California, which has stricter emissions standards than other states. That gives XL the right to sell the F-250 XLH Hybrid in its home state of Massachusetts and 11 other states that follow California's emissions regulations and the District of Columbia. DON'T MISS: XL Hybrids...

  • Toyota Project Portal 2.0 fuel cell-powered semi-trailer truck
    Toyota introduces second hydrogen fuel-cell powered semi working in Los Angeles

    Toyota is going big on fuel cells. Its latest effort expands on the Mirai sedan by converting semitrucks to hydrogen fuel-cell power. The company has been testing a fuel-cell powered semi for more than a year at the Port of Long Beach, California, ferrying goods from the Toyota Logistics facility...

  • Fitzgerald Glider Kits headquarters in Crossville, Tennessee
    EPA reinstates limitations on dirty diesel glider trucks

    In a reversal of its reversal, the EPA said Thursday that it would enforce limits on dirty "glider" trucks after all. Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler put the brakes on his predecessor's decision to not enforce an Obama-era rule on dirty diesel big-rigs. CHECK OUT: States join to halt EPA's...

  • EPA administrator Scott Pruitt  [photo from 2014]
    Pruitt leaves poison pill at EPA for glider-truck emissions rule

    In his last act as EPA Administrator on Friday, Scott Pruitt vacated an Obama-era ruling that dramatically restricted sales of polluting "glider" trucks. Pruitt's earlier efforts to repeal the ruling were opposed by a broad, bipartisan coalition of environmentalists, public health advocates, truck...

  • General Motors Brownstown Township factory for assembly of Chevrolet Volt battery packs
    Tesla Mode X crash report, Honda-GM pair up, plug-in deals, more electric trucks: Today's Car News

    A report from the National Transportation Safety Board reveals details of a fatal Tesla Model X crash in California. Is Autopilot to blame? Honda and GM are expanding their partnership to share batteries for electric cars. Freightliner and Volvo are building electric trucks to compete with the...

  • Freightliner eCascadia electric semi-truck
    Electric trucks coming from Daimler, Freightliner, Volvo, and others

    It's not even on the road yet and the Tesla Semi is getting some new competition. German Automaker Daimler, which owns Freightliner, Fuso, and other truck brands, announced that it would deliver its first 30 electric trucks to customers in North America for testing later this year. Last month...

  • 2019 Chevrolet Silverado 1500

    Chevrolet announced last week that its upcoming 2019 Silverado full-size pickup will offer a new turbo-4 in place of the base V-6 in some models. Like the V-8s in some of GM's large pickups, the new engine will have active cylinder management that cuts two of the four cylinders during light loads. Earlier this year, GM announced that two of its available V-8 engines, a 6.2- and 5.3-liter V-8, can cut up to seven of their eight cylinders in specific circumstances. The new 2.7-liter turbo-4 will be the first 4-cylinder engine in a modern full-sized pickup, and will be the base engine in...

  • 1912 Commercial Truck, Curtis publishing
    1912 electric truck: Take that, Tesla Semi!

    Commercial Truck company of Philadelphia built 5-ton electric trucks as far back as 1912. We know because two of these C-T Model A 10 trucks showed up for sale on simultaneously on Hemmings Motor News last month.

  • 2018 Ford F-150 Power Stroke
    2018 Ford F-150 Power Stroke first drive: diesel, the not-so-efficient way

    Ford has a gem of a diesel engine under the hood of the 2018 F-150 Power Stroke—as long as drivers aren’t enamored with good fuel economy. Wait, what? After a day of driving F-150 diesels in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains near Boulder, Colorado, unladen, with beds loaded up with...

  • 2018 Ford F-150 Power Stroke
    Ford releases fuel economy figures for new F-150 diesel

    A full-sized pickup that can get 30 mpg sounds impressive, and it is. Ford has released the fuel economy ratings for the new F150 Powerstroke diesel, and that's the highway rating for the two-wheel drive model. In the city it's rated to get 22 mpg from its turbocharged 3.0-liter V6 engine, and gets...

  • Bob Lutz at Via Motors extended-range electric truck conversion launch, 2012 Detroit Auto Show
    Via Motors to collaborate with Chinese maker Geely on electric trucks

    Electric trucks are getting more attention now than they did eight years ago, as the world prepared for the launch of the first modern electric cars to be sold in volume. The Tesla Semi tends to draw enormous amounts of attention, while less glamorous fleet buyers are ever more favorable toward...

  • Western Star semi tractor used to promote Fitzgerald Glider Kits
    Fake science: University disavows study EPA cited to approve old dirty diesels in "glider" trucks

    Last November, the Environmental Protection Agency said it would rescind a rule that banned companies from fitting outdated, older, and dirtier diesel engines into brand-new "glider" chassis-cab trucks. Among the many regulations to limit emissions and other forms of pollution that EPA...

  • Ford F-250 Super Duty pickup truck fitted with XL Hybrids upfitted hybrid-electric powertrain

    The idea of a Ford F-Series hybrid pickup truck has now been around since August 2011, but its maker now expects to launch such a truck sometime during 2020. Meanwhile, on Tuesday, Boston-based XL Hybrids unveiled both a Ford F-250 Super Duty pickup fitted with its XLH hybrid system and an F-150 light-duty pickup with its XLP plug-in hybrid system. The pair of trucks will be shown to the public on the company's display at the NTEA Work Truck Show, which will run from March 6 through 9 in Indianapolis. DON'T MISS: Ikea invests in hybrid-vehicle builder XL Hybrids The hybrid and plug-in hybrid...

  • Image from "Introducing Rivian | Our Vision" video, January 2017
    Electric pickup truck in 2020 to launch mysterious Rivian's "future mobility"

    When a mysterious company called Rivian issued a mysterious video in January 2017, it promised to "reshape mobility." As is often the case, that has turned out to involve electric cars. A year later, the company has released a few more details about its plans and its team. DON'T MISS: Chinese...

  • 2019 Ram 1500 Laramie Longhorn Edition
    What percent of US full-size pickup trucks will plug in by 2025? Twitter poll results

    If the U.S. is serious about reducing carbon emissions from road vehicles—under the current administration, the jury remains out—pickup trucks are key. More than half of the reduction in fuel consumption in pickup trucks projected under corporate average fuel economy rules comes from...

  • Ram 1500 Plug-In Hybrid pickup truck and Chrysler Town & Country plug-in hybrid minivan, April 2012
    What green tech best suits pickup trucks in 2030? Twitter poll results

    U.S. car buyers have increasingly ignored passenger sedans and hatchbacks and replaced them with utility vehicles of various sorts, and that's a trend that shows no sign of abating. One reason is that crossovers and SUVs now get better fuel economy than they did 10 years ago, when owning one...

  • 2019 Chevrolet Silverado 1500, 2018 Detroit auto show
    Inline-6 turbodiesel in 2019 Chevy Silverado pickup to be built in Michigan

    The forthcoming diesel-powered 2019 Chevrolet Silverado will, without a doubt, thump with the Heartbeat of America. During the new truck's launch at the 2018 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, GM product chief Mark Reuss hinted at a future announcement regarding the next-generation...

  • 2019 Ram 1500, 2018 Detroit auto show
    What percent of US full-size pickup trucks will plug in by 2025? Take our Twitter poll

    The big announcements at this year's Detroit auto show, now open to the public, were pickup trucks, one from each of the three U.S. automakers. The 2019 Chevrolet Silverado and 2019 Ram 1500 full-size pickups made their debut, each its company's highest-volume single nameplate. So did the 2019 Ford...

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