Truck Tech

Our Next Energy is on its way to providing 600 miles of range on a single charge for its lithium iron phosphate batteries. Founder and CEO Mujeeb Ajaz believes scaling the technology will be the long-sought battery breakthrough by the end of the decade. Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lightning eMotors will need more money to scale the electrification of school buses and transit vans. But it occupies a niche with few competitors. Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest: Gareth Joyce, CEO, Proterra Inc. Topic: Amid a tough business environment, Proterra is working to contain costs and consolidate its electric buses and battery assembly in South Carolina. Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It will be awhile before human drivers lose their seats in autonomous trucks, but it’s already happened in distribution yards using Outrider technology.  Andrew Smith, CEO and Founder of Outrider Inc, joins the show today to discuss the latest in autonomous driving technology. Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You didn’t know you needed a smart phone until you tried to live without one. Ali Javidan, Founder and CEO of Range Energy, thinks fleets will feel the same way about electrifying their trailers. Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Hyliion HyperTruck ERX will debut a quarter sooner than expected, but fewer trucks than planned will be delivered this year. Meanwhile, the next-gen Karno technology shows promise beyond transportation. Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Would skeptics of fully driverless trucking be more accepting of a remote operator guiding an Enride autonomous truck? Niklas Reinedahl, General Manager of North American Operations at Einride Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Workhorse has twice squandered a first-mover advantage in battery-electric step vans. Can it put the ball in play or is this the company’s third strike? Alan is joined by Rick Dauch, CEO Workhorse Group. Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Advanced Clean Transportation Expo by all accounts is the must-attend industry show as trucking transitions to zero emissions and carbon neutrality. Join Alan Adler has he covers wide range of topics with multiple top of the industry guests including... Erik Neandross, CEO, Gladstein, Neandross and Associates Matt Horton, Founding CEO, Voltera Power Carey Mendes, President, Energy, Nikola Corp...

With hydrogen fuel cells eligible for significant incentives, Hyzon Motors CEO Parker Meeks looks forward, including to a pilot with hybrid powertrain maker Hyliion Holdings. Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Autonomous trucking generates a lot of headlines. It isn’t a viable business yet. And a shakeout of players continues. Chris Urmson, truly part of the old guard in autonomy and the co-founder and CEO of Aurora Innovation, offers his perspective. Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guests: Angus Pacala, co-founder and CEO, Ouster Inc. and Sam Abuelsamid, principal analyst, Guidehouse Insights  Topic: The vast world of lidar suppliers all want to be the perception technology of choice for autonomous vehicles. It’s doubtful they all will survive the shakeout already underway.   Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...

Alan hosts Mike Ramsey, Vice President and Analyst, Automotive and Smart Mobility at Gartner Inc. in the lastest episode of Truck Tech. Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As Gatik prepares to autonomously move groceries around Dallas for Kroger, Truck Tech catches up on the middle-mile driverless business with Gatik co-founder and CEO Gautam Narang. Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Truck Tech reports the latest from the Work Truck Week event in Indianapolis with Shyft Group CEO Daryl Adams talking about the reveal of a new version of the Blue Arc Class 5 electric truck; from-the-floor look at Work Truck Week with Antti Lindstrom of S&P Global Mobility and the story behind the rebranding of Cummins New Power division as Accelera with Cummins CEO Jennifer Rumsey and Accelera b...

Truck Tech explores the ready-or-not state of electric truck charging with a look at the North American Council for Freight Efficiency’s Run on Less Electric Depot program. What will it take to charge 15 or more trucks with behind-the-fence infrastructure? Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jose Samperio, Executive Director and General Manager of Cummins North America On-Highway business and Andrew Wrobel, powertrain analyst with Rhein Associates Truck Tech explores the future of trucking powertrains focusing on Cummins’ announcement that it is retiring two legacy powertrains in favor of a smaller-displacement engine capable of serving medium- and heavy-duty truck customers. Follow t...

Truck Tech explores prospects for a hydrogen economy with Nikola Energy President Carey Mendes and Hexagon Purus CEO Morten Holum. Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guests: Mike Plasencia, Ryder System Inc., and Sam Saad, Gatik Inc. Video from Daimler Truck North America’s  reveal of its Super Truck 2 prototype at Manifest in Las Vegas and a discussion on lessons learned by Ryder and Gatik in working together on middle-mile autonomous trucking plus Ryder’s perspective on its partnerships with multiple Class 8 autonomous trucking startups. Follow the Truck Tec...

FreightWaves Midwest Bureau Chief Alan Adler welcomes Guidehouse Insights analyst Sam Abuelsamid to take a look at what's coming in the trucking technology space in 2023. They discuss where the transformation to electrification and autonomous trucking move this year, as well as some other predictions. Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me...

FreightWaves’ Alan Adler covers the latest in trucking technology news and interviews Rebecca Brewster, president and chief operating officer of the American Transportation Research Institute on Truck Tech. Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FreightWaves’ Alan Adler covers the latest in trucking technology news and interviews John O’Leary, CEO Of Daimler Truck North America, in the first weekly episode of Truck Tech. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices