Our sources say that Volvo Trucks has an alliance with the South-Korean company Samsung SDI for developing battery’s for electric trucks. Volvo has plans to commercialise the FE and FL series electric driven trucks and that makes that there is a need for large and high quality battery’s. It seems that the developement is being…… Continue Reading
The Nikola Tre is the all electric truck for Europe with a radius up to 1200 km. The truck is running on hydrogen and produces its own energy. For the first time Nikola has showed photo’s of the interior of this future truck for Europe. The company says they already have 13.000 orders for the…… Continue Reading
Tesla is working on the electric Semi heavy tractor and it seems to be working. On the photo we see a Tesla Semi transporting Tesla passenger cars. This is off course a test truck of the company but the idea is to bring this truck to the market. We have one question for Tesla: Your…… Continue Reading
Daimler Trucks, the world’s leading truck manufacturer, achieved one of the best sales years in its history in 2018: Based on initial data, unit sales of the Mercedes-Benz, FUSO, Freightliner, Western Star, Thomas Built Buses and BharatBenz brands increased to well over 500,000 vehicles in 2018 Read all about it by clicking here!… Continue Reading
At the turn of the year, Volkswagen is offering a glimpse of the company’s future mobile quick charging station. It can be set up flexibly and independent of the power supply wherever it is needed: for example, in public parking lots in the city, on company premises, or as a temporary charging point at large-scale…… Continue Reading
In response to widespread interest from European customers, Nikola Motor Company has created a hydrogen-electric truck for European markets. Reservations for the new Nikola TRE (means “Three” in Norwegian) are now open at www.nikolamotor.com. Guests at the April 16-17 Nikola World in Phoenix will be able to view a prototype display of the Nikola TRE,…… Continue Reading
Hyundai is presenting a heavy fuel cell truck. The Official presentation is planned for 2019 but the press release shows an artist impression of the fuel cell truck just before the IAA2018 in Hannover. Hyundai has a lot of experience with fuel cell vehicles. The last 20 years the Korean company took the lead with…… Continue Reading
Tesla intends to make serious business of the segment of best sold vehicles in the US. The thing is, this first sketch promises something that looks quite different from a traditional pick-up truck. Yet, this is what Tesla showed. The pick-up truck looks more like a vehicle meant to drive on the surface of Mars,…… Continue Reading
Volkswagen and Ford have started negotiations to form a van alliance. Volkswagen used to have such an alliance with Daimler, which ended in 2013. The objective of such an alliance is to cut costs in the development of a new generation of clean vans. Volkswagen was urged by it’s commissioners to start talks with Ford.…… Continue Reading
Chinese electrial vehicle specialist en battery producer BYD has delivered a Class 8 electric truck to a Californian governmental board. The authority intends to find out in how far electrical trucks may replace diesel trucks in port area’s. The truck will start shuttling containers on a short with a company specialised in this kind of…… Continue Reading
Bigtruck magazine editie 11 2024
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