Electric Trucks

Cold chain transport via trains, trucks, planes, ships and containers is electrifying.

Survey by Corporate Electric Vehicle Alliance reveals the features buyers want most over the next five years.

In 2021, the global electric truck market size was valued at $670 million and is projected to grow by 23.5 percent between 2020 and 2030. Here are some of the companies vying for that revenue.

Electric vehicle and last-mile delivery company BrightDrop, a subsidiary of General Motors, kicked off 2022 with splashy new deals with Walmart and FedEx. 

The fleet management company’s electrification guru believes EV adoption for fleet vehicles will take off in 2022, and the company is spending big to lead the charge.

The electric truck company, recipient of a huge Amazon delivery network order, has a market cap bigger than that of GM or Ford.

Aside from the decreased maintenance associated with EV technology, fleet managers believe electric trucks will attract those that wouldn’t have otherwise been drivers.

Failure to adopt the Advanced Clean Trucks rule by the end of 2021 will lead to thousands of new diesel vehicles entering the state’s roads over the next five years.

Public and private actions must align strategically if we hope to catalyze the zero-emissions segment for heavy-duty trucks.

If half of the pickup truck owners in Texas switched to an electric model in the next decade and had their vehicles plugged in during a grid reliability event, they would provide the Texas grid with about 460 gigawatt-hours of capacity.