trucks

  • Get ex-cons driving lorries to ease HGV crisis, says logistics boss

    Haulage company Clipper has recommended hiring ex-prisoners and the long-term unemployed in order to plug labour shortages in the HGV market.

  • Here comes the next shoe to drop for Nikola

    Nikola may now need to quickly raise cash as its GM deal has fallen apart.

  • Einride unveils autonomous truck fleets that require just one operator

    Swedish startup Einride has created a system that will enable autonomous truck fleets that only require one (or even zero!) operators at a time. Einride, which touts itself as the first “fully electric, totally autonomous transport vehicle to operate on a public road,” utilizes remote monitoring and operation capability to allow operators to oversee and control its Next Gen Pods on-demand, with no need for a human driver on board.

  • We are watching to see if Tesla and Elon Musk will reveal a 'million-mile' battery: Xpeng vice chairman

    All eyes are on Tesla as it reportedly readies the reveal of its new battery.

  • Why you won't be able to buy a 2021 Ford Bronco outside of the US

    The Ford Bronco won't be global just yet.

  • Tesla rival Nikola scores deal to make thousands of 1,000-horsepower electric garbage trucks

    Nikola is moving full steam ahead in its attempt to overhaul the trucking industry.

  • Hundreds of US Postal Service delivery trucks are catching fire as they continue to outstay their 24-year life expectancy

    Two separate engineering firms hired to determine the cause of the fires were unable to really find a pattern.

  • Proposed CO2 capture system could reduce truck emissions by 90 percent

    A significant chunk of carbon dioxide emissions come from the transportation sector, and within Europe nearly 40 percent of transport emissions come from trucks. Now, researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Lausanne (EPFL) have come up with a new concept for capturing carbon dioxide from truck exhausts which could reduce emissions by up to 90 percent.

  • 2019 GMC Sierra AT4 review: An off-road daily driver

    The Sierra AT4 is for those pickup owners who want off-road capability, as well as a daily driver you can take out for a night on the town. It also happens to be GM's best pickup in quite a long time.

  • Volvo Trucks’ autonomous vehicle is hauling goods in Sweden

    Volvo Trucks' autonomous vehicle Vera is ready to hit the road. In collaboration with ferry and logistics company DFDS, Vera will begin transporting goods between a logistics center and a port terminal in Gothenburg, Sweden. The vehicle will haul shipping containers along a predefined route, including a stretch of public roads.

  • Germany tests its first 'electric highway' for trucks

    Germany is joining the ranks of those countries betting on "electric highways" to foster eco-friendly trucking. The country has started real-world tests of an eHighway system on a 3.1-mile stretch of the Autobahn between Frankfurt and Darmstadt, with an electric-diesel hybrid truck merging into everyday traffic while it received power from overhead cables to keep it from using its combustion engine. Earlier tests in the country relied on either slow nighttime tests or the safety of an unused military airfield.

  • Ford just embarrassed the hell out of its pickup truck rivals

    Ford maintains its lead in the truck category in the first quarter of 2019. Yahoo Finance talks with Ford Chief Financial Officer Bob Shanks about its performance.

  • Nikola will unveil electric versions of two semi-trucks in April

    Nikola seems to have cracked the nut on how to build fully electric semi-trucks. It revealed its Nikola Two and Nikola Tre will be available in electric configurations as well as hydrogen. Nikola does plan to keep working on hydrogen trucks, so it's not fully switching to electric any time soon. It says hydrogen's cheaper for long-haul drives, and the startup expects to see 50 times as many orders for hybrids as its electric semi-trucks. However, it claims EVs are particularly useful for "inner cities and non-weight sensitive applications."

  • Daimler wants self-driving trucks on the roads in ten years

    Level four autonomy is the dream of many automakers. A vehicle that drives itself without any driver interaction but has a steering wheel and pedals so that when the human in the car is ready to take control, they can. Daimler wants to put that technology in semi trucks within the next 10 years.

  • GM to recall about 1.2 million vehicles worldwide

    The recall covers certain 2015 Chevrolet, GMC and Cadillac pickup trucks and SUVs, and includes about 1.02 million vehicles in the United States.

  • The future of Daimler trucking is electrified and autonomous

    If a company isn't talking about the transformation of transportation there's a good chance it might get caught flat-footed when cars start driving themselves loaded with battery packs. Mostly these conversations center around passenger vehicles, but trucks could do with some cleaning up, too, and one of the companies on the forefront of that is Daimler.

  • General Motors CEO: We have to earn our right to exist

    General Motors is the largest female-led company in the world.

  • 2018 Range Rover Velar: Brawn and beauty—at a price

    Land Rover had a need to slot another SUV in its ranks below the ‘range’-topping Range Rover and Range Rover Sport, but above the entry level (and slightly long in the tooth) Evoque. Enter the Velar.

  • Mercedes AR app gives truck drivers crucial info on their rig

    Mercedes isn't new to experimenting with augmented reality, and at MWC 2018 the company showed off its latest creation with that technology. The "Vehicle Lens" app is exactly what it sounds like: It uses a smartphone to give you an AR view of a car or truck, showing vital information as you move around and point the camera at different parts of your ride. If you have it facing the wheels, for example, you see details about tire pressure. That will come in handy before taking a trip. In addition to that, Vehicle Lens can display engine info like mileage and coolant levels, how much fuel there is and personal info about drivers -- including if they've been driving for too long.

  • Ford revs up production of Expedition and Navigator

    Ford is betting big on SUVs and boosting production of two of its popular vehicles by twenty-five percent this year. Yahoo Finance's Seana Smith, Rick Newman, talk with Joe Hinrichs, President of Global Operations, Ford