Daimler Truck Financial Services USA plans to support Daimler Truck North America’s range of electric products with financing and leasing solutions that can be customized to meet each customer’s needs, including trucks and charging infrastructure. Because the Detroit ePowertrain produces less heat tha...
How much payload can the electric box truck haul? The Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) for the eM2 is 26,000 lbs. (Class 6) or 33,000 lbs. (Class 7). The approximate tare weights for these two variants are 12,980 lbs or 16,230 lbs., respectively. (“Tare weight” is the tota...
Tesla may have nearly 2,000 orders for its planned long-distance Semi electric truck, but it has never built a truck and has not announced where or who will build it. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said it will arrive in 2019, however the company’s track record for meeting production schedules is...
In the currently prioritised hub-to-hub application, the truck drives autonomously between freight centres along US motorway corridors. In a possible future scenario, the charging infrastructure and autonomous logistics centres could be brought together. The electric charging process could take place at ...
including what the charging infrastructure is like, and whether it’s practical to stop and charge when you’ve got a delivery to make. Freightliner also wants to learn about how the truck is used, and how it performs. Finally, it’s interested in finding out whether the companies using...
charging port placement on the truck, human-machine interface (HMI) controls and more. To-date, a diverse array of commercial trucking fleets including the nation’s largest for-hire fleets, grocery distributors, and less-than-load carriers have participated in the CX Fleet, with more ...