Revoy hybrid tandem trailer rolls towards reality with $27 million raise
Revoy hybrid tandem trailer rolls towards reality with $27 million raise

By packing batteries and an electric drive axle into a tandem trailer that fits between a conventional semi truck and trailer, Revoy EV promises to “electrify” trucking and cut a fleet’s fuel bill in half. Now, after years of development, the concept i…

Plug-in port: Brazilian Port of Santos electrifies DP World terminal
Plug-in port: Brazilian Port of Santos electrifies DP World terminal

DP World is electrifying its port fleet at the Brazilian Port of Santos with 15 battery-electric terminal trucks and three electric reach stackers in a move that marks another key step toward clean freight handling at one of Latin America’s busiest con…

E-quipment highlight: SANY SKT145Ei cabless, autonomous haul truck [video]
E-quipment highlight: SANY SKT145Ei cabless, autonomous haul truck [video]

It’s not just capable of driverless operation, the SANY SKT145Ei doesn’t even have a place for the driver to sit! The company’s latest all-electric heavy haul truck ditches the driver’s cab in favor of a millimeter-wave radar-guided sensor suite on a p…

Kalmar Ottawa electric yard truck gets to work in Canada
Kalmar Ottawa electric yard truck gets to work in Canada

Kalmar Ottawa has been a leader in diesel-powered yard trucks for decades, but as global logistics fleets move to reduce costs and insulate themselves from volatile diesel prices, the company is making that shift, too – and they’re out to prove their n…

Another day at the office: Fortescue CEO test drives 150 ton haul truck [video]
Another day at the office: Fortescue CEO test drives 150 ton haul truck [video]

Industrial mining giants Fortescue have been leading the charge towards electrifying every aspect of their operations – and last week, the company’s CEO took some time to actually get out and test drive some of the company’s newest battery-powered heav…

Windrose says 10 of its electric semi trucks are coming to Texas’ I-35 corridor
Windrose says 10 of its electric semi trucks are coming to Texas’ I-35 corridor

The electric semi truck market seems to be heating up in Texas, with Wen Han’s upstart Windrose brand set to deploy 10 fully electric Class 8 trucks on the I-35 freight corridor between Dallas and Laredo en route to Mexico (but there are some caveats).

E-quipment highlight: Avant Tecno e727 electric wheel loader
E-quipment highlight: Avant Tecno e727 electric wheel loader

Increasingly volatile fuel prices are making electric equipment options a need, rather than a want for many fleets, and Avant Tecno is working to meet that need with the new e727 electric wheel loader – the company’s largest offering in North America.

Deliveries, automation, and the gateway drug to electrification with BIG JOE
Deliveries, automation, and the gateway drug to electrification with BIG JOE

Full autonomy, big delivery numbers, and a push towards electrification that’s moving global markets? We must be talking about electric forklifts! On today’s uplifting episode of Quick Charge, we’ve got Big Joe CMO Martin Boyd here to walk us through s…

Electric, autonomous, and there’s 800 of them: inside this week’s BIGGEST deal
Electric, autonomous, and there’s 800 of them: inside this week’s BIGGEST deal

In a massive deployment of self-driving trucks that makes most autonomous and electric vehicle deployments look tiny in comparison, Chinese heavy equipment brand Tonly just signed a deal to deliver 800 autonomous, “New Energy” mining trucks to Xinjiang…

Order up: Janus Electric set to convert 67 diesel trucks to battery-swap EVs
Order up: Janus Electric set to convert 67 diesel trucks to battery-swap EVs

Australian conversion experts Janus Electric are celebrating a series of orders that will see the company convert 67 Class 8 heavy-duty freight and drayage trucks from diesels to advanced, battery-swap electric vehicles.