Background
5 Jul 2022

BYD: Electric Trucks
Chinese OEM BYD Motors are an established player in the US electric truck market.
24 Jan 2022

Funding for Megawatt Truck Charging Along California Freight Corridors
The Electric Power Research Institute and CALSTART have been awarded $13 million from the California Energy Commission to jump start California's high-power charging infrastructure for medium and heavy-duty vehicles. The two organizations will lead a first-of-its-kind collaboration to launch the country's first zero-emission, freight-charging corridor network.
External press release
3 Jun 2021

Leading Nations Pursue Global Agreement on Zero Emission Trucks
Austria, Canada, Chile, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden have just issued a call to action urging leading nations to jointly pursue a global Memorandum of Understanding to accelerate the manufacturing and adoption of zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles.
15 Nov 2016

Industrial vehicle technology conference reveals trends
The iVT Electric and Hybrid Industrial Vehicle Technology Symposium November 9-10 took place in Cologne Germany, the first of a series splitting out Industrial EVs from the whole subject of EVs and batteries covered in UKIP, the organisers' Novi Michigan event every year. About 200 attended with around six table top exhibitors. Most of the speakers were on topic and had valuable things to say. Others varied from McLaren to hydraulics people and those modestly improving conventional vehicles.
28 Nov 2014

New electric trucks
The new IDTechEx report, Industrial and Commercial Hybrid and Pure Electric Vehicles 2015-2025 forecasts in eleven categories because so much is now happening.
28 Jul 2014

Ballard's fuel cell module to be tested
Canadian company Ballard Power Systems is supplying a FCvelocity®-HD7 fuel cell power module to a North American bus manufacturer.
9 Sep 2013

US DoT awards USD13.6m for fuel cell buses
The US Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced $13.6 million in federal funding to advance the commercialization of American-made fuel cell buses for the transit industry.
13 Aug 2012

Frito-Lay rolls out growing fleet of electric delivery trucks
Frito-Lay the $13 billion convenient foods business unit of PepsiCo, plan to increase their all electric truck fleet to 105 in California by the end of the year, making it the largest deployment in any US state.
6 Mar 2012

Motiv Power Systems $1.16 million grant for new battery-electric truck
Motiv Power Systems Secures $1.16 Million California Energy Commission Grant for New Battery-Electric Truck and utilizes traditional diesel truck assembly line infrastructure to accelerate EV adoption.
14 Dec 2011

BAE Systems delivers hydrogen fuel cell bus for Sunline Transit
BAE Systems has delivered a zero-emissions bus for SunLine Transit, a Southern California regional transit agency, this week.
1 Jun 2011

Profiles of military electric vehicle suppliers
Suppliers and developers of electric vehicles for the US Military.
28 Jun 2010

BAE Systems gains Bus EV business
In 2009, BAE Systems reported sales of £22.4 billion (US$ 36.2 billion). BAE Systems is a global defence, security and aerospace company with approximately 107,000 employees worldwide.