Sustainability

Diesel truck efficiencies deserve to be promoted

“Roger that, Ghost Rider. I’m chewing up the boulevard at a high rate of fuel consumption. We’ll catch you on the flip, 10-4.” I may have…

Hydra Energy retrofits add to a changing truck market

What on earth have we seen unleashed in the truck-making world? Everybody and his third cousin twice removed has launched a new truck or soon will. If not a new…

Natural gas truck sales get a boost

Class 8 natural gas retail sales rose 24% so far this year in the U.S. and Canada, according to the ACT Alternative Fuels Quarterly report. However, the industry analyst notes…

Navistar, In-Charge provide carbon-free electricity for EVs

Navistar and In-Charge Energy are now offering carbon neutral electricity through their electric vehicle charging infrastructure. In-Charge Energy’s In-Control software platform automates the process of collecting electric vehicle charging energy…

Mack comes out with electric APU

Mack Trucks has introduced a factory-installed electric auxiliary power unit (eAPU) for the Mack Anthem with 70-inch sleeper cab. The Idle Free Series 5000 eAPU features a 10,000 BTU compressor…

Purolator slashes emissions

Purolator has slashed its emissions by 8% per package, the company announced in its 2020 Sustainability Report. “The onset of Covid-19 reinforced our essential role in the daily lives of…

Hydra Energy gets first paying customer for hydrogen retrofit

Hydra Energy has secured its first paying customer for a reversible hydrogen retrofit kit, following three years and 200,000 kilometers of testing. Prince George, B.C.-based Lodgewood Enterprises has taken delivery…

Gardewine Group receives grant to deploy electric shunt truck

Gardewine Group will receive a $150,000 grant from the Manitoba government to support the purchase of a heavy-duty electric shunt truck, along with the associated electrical infrastructure and operational testing.

Cummins to offer 15L natural gas engine

Cummins is bringing back to the North American market a 15-liter natural gas engine. It says the move is part of a broader strategy to develop low- and zero-emissions engines…

OPG subsidiary set up to help fleets transition to electric power

Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has set up a subsidiary dubbed PowerON Energy Solutions, to help fleets set up the charging infrastructure needed to electrify some or all of their fleet.

Ballard hits 100M-km milestone with fuel cells

Ballard Power Systems has achieved a 100-million-kilometer milestone, with medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles powered by its fuel cell technologies. It has more than doubled its total kilometers traveled over…

Quebec trucker designs a hybrid forestry truck that consumes up to 15% less fuel

Larry Bolduc has been a truck driver for more than 25 years and is now the head of the family business Transport Raoul Bolduc in Girardville, Que., in the Saguenay/Lac-St-Jean…

GM brings BrightDrop electric commercial vehicle to market in record time

General Motors says it has completed its first production builds of its subsidiary BrightDrop’s EV600 electric commercial vehicles, marking the fastest concept-to-commercialization process in company history. It also announced it…

Run on Less – Electric finds 5.2 million trucks could be electrified today

Run on Less – Electric has concluded. And the conclusion is, there are a lot of fleets and applications that could be electrified today. The three-week demonstration put on by…

Volvo adds fleet charging start-up to Innovation Lab

Volvo Group has established an Innovation Lab in Silicon Valley, where it is bringing together start-ups that will help it transition to more sustainable systems. Volvo refers to the lab…