Truck Talk: Machine gun-tested edition

Cummins Inc. is beginning development of a hydrogen-fueled medium-duty 6.7-liter and a heavy-duty 15-liter engine. Part of the development work to be undertaken at Cummins’ Darlington facility in the United Kingdom will be funded by the U.K. government. … Run on Less — Electric, the multi-month project of the North American Council for Freight Efficiency and RMI (formerly the Rocky Mountain Institute), reached the finish line this week with a finding that if all medium- and heavy-duty trucks ran on electricity, 100 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) would be eliminated from the atmosphere. … Volvo Trucks is sharing some of its customer information with electric vehicle charging and energy management provider AMPLY Power. In turn, AMPLY is sharing with Volvo its insight into what might deter a fleet from electric truck adoption. AMPLY is part of the recent deployment of five VNR Electric trucks to Manhattan Beer Distributors in The Bronx, New York.

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