Start-up company Nikola has unveiled it’s long awaited truck concept last night in the US. First thing Iepieleaks notes is that the gasturbine has been interchanged for a hydrogen fuel cell system. Sill, the Nikola delivers 1.000 hp. The Nikola One utilizes a fully electric drivetrain powered by high-density lithium batteries. Energy will be supplied…… Continue Reading
The Ginaf company is building electric driven distribution trucks by the name Duratruck. These trucks are based on Mercedes-Benz Atego trucks and they get a completely new electric driveline. The one on the pictures is a E2114 Duratruck that was delivered recently to the Hulshoff company in Amsterdam. The truck has a 270 kW electromotor…… Continue Reading
At Iepieleaks you expect the latest trucking and vehicle info and you expect news which officially isn’t news yet. So what about this little movie we found on the web? It shows a test of an autonomous driving ambulance which actually belongs to the army. The film shows consciousness about road deaths and about safety…… Continue Reading
During the third Guangzhou International Commercial Vehicle Exhibition the Auman EST won the very first ‘Chinese Truck of the Year’ award ever. The Auman EST is the latest heavy-duty truck model from Beijing Foton Daimler Automotive Co., Ltd. (BFDA), which extends the portfolio of locally manufactured trucks. Hereby, Daimler Trucks once again strengthens its global…… Continue Reading
Mammoet finished moving the first houses from the Swedish city of Gällivare to nearby Koskullskulle. Gällivare has been built on iron deposits and the houses in the city have to make way for a mine. Because many of these houses are of high cultural value, the governmental mining company wanted to move them in one…… Continue Reading
The Pacton Flex XL container chassis is a trailer that can handle just about any container within the European legislations. The trailer is extendable to be able to transport anything from 20- up to 45 ft shipping containers, including high-cube. Just watch the movie for all positions. Pacton also produces tipping container trailers.… Continue Reading
American truckbrand International has been away from the Australian market but now there is an agreement that Iveco gets the rights to sell them Down Under. That is what we learn from BIGRIGS.COM, and that is a bit of a suprise since the Volkswagen Truck and Bus Group has a minority share in International. Both…… Continue Reading
President-elect Trump digging coal or not, in the US there are several firms developing eletrically driven vehicles. We already mentioned Tesla developing a fully electric pick-up, but meanwhile, there’s also the Workhorse Group having a pick-up under development that will hardly need gas. Hardly, because the Wotrkhorse W15 has a small range extender supplying energy…… Continue Reading
Toyota Motor Corporation will begin to sell fuel cell buses (FC buses) under the Toyota brand from early 2017. Having already undergone repeated field tests for practical use, the Bureau of Transportation of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government plans to utilize two of these FC buses (model name: Toyota FC Bus) as fixed-route buses. Toyota plans…… Continue Reading
Dutch company Emoss presents the E.V.E.R truck, an 18 ton tractor with electic power and a range extender. Together these two make a range of 900 km possible. The CNG engine is from a GM passenger car and it provides electrical power for the main engine of 320 kW. With the 120 kVh battery package…… Continue Reading
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