Commercial vehicle
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The Tomcar LV1 is an electric off-road vehicle designed for use in mines.
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How to turn long-haul trucking all-electric? Tractor swapping!
A Swiss infrastructure company proposes tractor swapping for electric trucks.
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Lighter Volvo aero truck concept is 30 percent more fuel-efficient
Volvo Trucks' concept is lighter and more aerodynamic than a conventional semi.
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Nikola One 2000-hp natural gas-electric semi truck announced
Another company named after Nikola Tesla plans to launch an electric semi truck and UTV.
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The Country's Cleanest Yellow School Bus Is All-Electric
Several companies are collaborating on an all-electric school bus.
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Use Old Electric-Car Batteries To Electrify Used Vans, Carwatt Suggests (Video)
It's a frequent question about electric cars: What happens to the battery packs after they reach the limit of their automotive life? The usual answer is that they'll have a second life as energy storage in houses or for other stationary uses. But what if that second life were in another vehicle?...
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Domino's is converting Chevrolet Spark hatchbacks into pizza-delivery vehicles.
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Fleet Operators Favor New Rules For Fuel-Efficient Big Trucks
Fleet operators appear positive about proposed fuel-economy standards.
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Armored Natural-Gas Plug-In Hybrid Truck To Hit The Roads
A plug-in hybrid armored truck with a natural-gas engine will hit Los Angeles streets next year.
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Higher Heavy Truck Fuel Efficiency May Be Easy, Save Huge Amounts Of Oil
Trucks can benefit from fuel-saving features already used on many cars.
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New Smaller Commercial Vans Do Well Due To Fuel Efficiency
You can save a lot of money by improving the fuel economy of larger and thirstier vehicles, especially if they cover lots of miles each year. That's why business owners are usually considered to be more rational vehicle buyers than retail customers: The fleet vehicles often consume twice the fuel...
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Ford Transit Van Gets Add-In Hybrid Kit For Better Fuel Economy
XL Hybrids unveils a conversion kit for the Ford Transit full-size van.
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Could mild-hybrid systems help improve fuel economy while satisfying owners' demand for low costs?
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Which States Have The Most Diesel Vehicles? New Data Gives Results
Just as diesel fuel isn't available at every single gas station, diesel vehicles are unevenly distributed in the United States. And despite double-digit rises in registration numbers, the preponderance of diesel engines in North America remain in trucks--especially heavy-duty trucks--rather than...
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Daimler Unveils SuperTruck; 12-MPG Semi Is More Than Twice As Fuel-Efficient
Daimler exceeded the goal set by the Department of Energy's SuperTruck program.
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Mack Trucks Updates Its Natural-Gas Powered Semi Tractors
Mack Trucks adds a new transmission and adaptive cruise control to its Pinnacle series tractors.
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Amp Electric's Workhorse Wants To Be 'Tesla Of Trucks' For Electric Delivery Vans
Aside from economic recession and cautious buyers, one of the biggest challenges for companies that want to sell electrified commercial trucks turns out to be ... making or converting trucks. Amp Electric, a surviving veteran of several generations of electric-truck development, decided to solve...
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U.S.P.S. 'Long Life' Vehicles Last 25 Years, But Age Shows Now
The U.S. Postal Service seeks a new vehicle type to replace its aging fleet.
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Coca-Cola plans to have over 200 hybrid-van conversions in operation by 2015.
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Achates Closer To Production Of Radically Efficient Two-Stroke Truck Diesel
Suppose you could take an old engine concept discarded in the 1970s, add modern fuel metering and injection control hardware and software, and offer a compact powerplant that cuts the fuel consumption of today's diesel truck engines by a third.. That's the promise of Achates Power, which has been...
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Further Crackdowns On Diesel Emissions Only A Matter Of Time?
European analysts expect stricter diesel-emission standards in the near future.
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FedEx Tests Wrightspeed Electric Trucks With Diesel Turbine Range Extender
While electric passenger vehicles get the lion's share of public attention, commercial trucks are often as good or better for electric drive. With a huge global fleet and a constant drive to reduce emissions and fuel costs while improving efficiency and delivery speed, FedEx has long tested...
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Echo Automotive Fails: Bolt-On Plug-In Hybrid Kits Used Bright Technology
Starting a company is tough; starting a company in the green automotive field may be even tougher. So it seemed like the engineering team from defunct startup Bright Automotive, once granted investment by GM, might have a second chance to see their technology on the road. The assets and...
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Portland Tests BYD K9 All-Electric Passenger Bus: Quick Ride
If Warren Buffett needed to catch a ride across town, we suspect he might do it exactly the way that we did this past week: in an all-electric BYD bus. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway famously invested big in China’s BYD Motors in late 2008 -- likely spurred by the company’s...
Bengt Halvorson