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Guest: Haley Sage, Learning Program Manager, Volvo Trucks North America
Topic: When selling a Class 8 truck that is 90%, it takes multiple approaches to get ready to go to market.
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Guests: Miranda Richardson, Samantha Parlier and Jim Martin, Daimler Truck North America
Topic: The fifth-generation Freightliner Cascadia incorporates enough driver-friendly features to qualify as a new model short of a complete makeover.
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Guests: Heather Duffy, Shell; Kevin Otto and Mike Roeth, North American Council for Freight Efficiency
Topic: The Shell Starship is getting a bit long in the tooth but it still provides useable data for fleets to squeeze extra fuel and freight efficiency
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Guest: Magnus Gustafsson, Volvo Truck vice president of connected services
Topic: Volvo's expanded Blue Service contract extends maintenance coverage to incorporate data mining to predict things that might go wrong in addition to obvious repairs.
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Guest: Joachim Ladra, head of marketing, cellcentric
Topic: The Daimler Truck-Volvo Group fuel cell joint venture is working on a 375-kilowatt single fuel cell system that replaces the twin 150-kW stacks in current use. Daimler also shows its pilot liquid hydrogen fueling station in Wörth am Rhein, Germany.
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Guest: Andreas Gorbach, Daimler Truck head of technology
Topic: From the IAA Transportation show in Hannover, Germany, Daimler Truck Head of Technology Andreas Gorbach discusses how the future of trucking could virtually place a driver at home while still on the road.
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Allen Schaeffer, executive director, Engine Technology Forum
Topic: A variety of drop-in fuels, from renewable diesel to renewable natural gas and hydrogen, all suggest a strong future for internal combustion engines even as electrification gets most of the attention.
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Guest: Brian Balicki, head of design, Volvo Trucks North America
Topic: Designers incorporated all the environments where a commercial truck travels for Volvo's first over-the-road truck purpose built for North America.
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Qasar Younis, co-founder and CEO and Peter Ludwig, co-founder and CTO, Applied Intuition
Topic: Applied Intuition counts nearly every major automotive and truck maker among its customers for bespoke development of software and tools for range of autonomy use cases
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For this episode of Making the switch, we visited the Cummins Jamestown, New York engine plant where the X15N natural gas engine is built. Plant manager Shawn Hricko talks about the diesel-like performance of the industry’s first 15-liter natural gas engine which is lighter than the current 12-liter and features up to 10% better fuel economy.
Industry analysts estimate that renewable natural gas (RNG) could grow to power one in five heavy-duty trucks in the U.S. over the next decade. UPS, Frito-Lay, Wegmans and other fleets count on RNG to reduce emissions and cut fuel costs. With looming regulations that dramatically restrict nitrogen oxide emissions, trucking fleet managers and executives need to understand the role RNG can play in meeting the new rules.
To help unpack the RNG story and assist fleets in making informed decisions about switching from diesel to RNG, we talked with stakeholders throughout the natural gas ecosystem. Following this episode on Cummins, future episodes will feature Kenworth, Hexagon Agility, Clean Energy, Opal Fuels and Paper Transport covering the business case, viability and advantages of RNG for heavy-duty trucks.
Make the switch!
Download this guide is designed to help heavy-duty fleets make an informed analysis of natural gas trucks, RNG fuel and cost of ownership: https://hexagonagility.com/rng-for-heavy-duty-fleets-ebook
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Guest: Scott Davidson, CEO, Revolv
Topic: There is so much more involved in electrifying commercial fleets than buying trucks and chargers. Companies like Revolv want to connect all aspects of electrification - from site permits to driver training.
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Guest: Shawn Hricko, plant manager, Cummins Jamestown Engine Plant
Topic: As Cummins moves to build a variety of fuel-agnostic engines, the focus is on the 1 million square-foot Jamestown, New York, engine plant, which is capable of assembling more than 500 heavy-duty truck engines a day.
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Guest: Maddie Sullivan, product marketing manager, Volvo Trucks North America
Topic: As Volvo debuts its new-from-the-ground-up VNL flagship, Truck Tech takes a deep dive on the integration of safety systems that seeks to avoid crashes and lessen the impact of unavoidable accidents.
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Guest: Steve Girsky, CEO, Nikola
Topic: Nikola's financial future is still far from assured but interest is growing in the electric truck maker as it delivers on its promises of fuel cell trucks and hydrogen distribution to fill them.
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Guest: Tyler Duvall, co-founder and CEO, Cavnue
Topic: The federal highway system has not had a major overhaul in 70 years beyond physical upgrades. Startup Cavnue thinks sensor technology could make a big difference in safety and performance.
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Guest: Matt Zimmer, president, Zengistics
Topic: Whether it's reducing the number of loads or helping a company decide where to locate its next distribution site, Zengistics applies Turvo-driven apps to help shippers save on total cost of ownership.
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Guest: Ted McKlveen, co-founder and CEO, Verne
Topic: The prospects for hydrogen as a transportation fuel improve by packing more energy into a kilogram of the element. Startup Verne expects to demonstrate a long-haul truck using its super-cold hydrogen storage technology by the end of the year. The industry is watching.
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Guest: Londonne Corder, Outrider chief marketing officer
Topic: Dirty and dangerous distribution yards have great potential for automation. Outrider is leading those efforts at its test site near Denver where FreightWaves was invited to for a behind-the-scenes look.
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Guest: Kurt Neutgens, co-founder and chief technology officer, Orange EV
Topic: Distribution yards are a sweet spot for heavy-duty electric trucks. They cost more up front, but they have a fast payback and unmatched durability with 98% uptime in the case of Orange EV.
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