Clean Technica | By: Derek Markham | November 14, 2017:
The race to electrify long haul trucking, as well as other heavy cargo carriers, is really starting to heat up, and although we’re all waiting for Musk to blow our minds clean out of our skulls with the Tesla semi reveal, there are other contenders already lining up with their solutions for clean transport.
Cummins has unveiled its electric Class 7 prototype, Chanje has seen its electric trucks ordered by the likes of Ryder, Nikola Motor Company has released some details of its Class 8 hydrogen-electric truck.
Heck, even dairy farmers are getting into building electric trucks, powered by manure, as befits the industry.
But we may have to wait for a bit for production electric big rigs to hit the market, and even once those electric trucks begin to see service, there will still be millions of other semi trucks — both existing and new models — on the road that are strictly diesel, with no clear path to cleaning up their footprints.
However, Hyliion, a Pittsburgh-based company, has two solutions that could help save fuel and reduce emissions from long haul trucks…
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