For Wards Intelligence Subscribers Toyota applies its hybrid expertise to the Tundra, bringing a powerful new propulsion system to the fullsize truck market.
The move will impact dealers, who will be asked to specialize around ICE vehicles, BEVs or commercial vehicles, and transition to new sales and service methods in the process.
For Wards Intelligence Subscribers As widely reported, global growth in battery-electric vehicles will start accelerating, but the propulsion type still is a long way from dominating the market.
For Wards Intelligence Subscribers Jim Nebergall, general manager of the hydrogen-engine business at Cummins, sees hydrogen-fueled engines as a good short- and medium-term solution to decarbonizing the long-haul, heavy-duty truck market.
Described as the industry’s first unified, fuel-agnostic engines, these platforms will use engine blocks and core components that share common architectures and a high degree of parts commonality. This new design approach will be available for diesel, natural gas and hydrogen.
For Wards Intelligence Subscribers Automakers can’t afford to invent everything from scratch if they want to get SDVs on the market by mid-decade. ETAS is focused on supplying the basic software building blocks that will allow OEMs to meet their objectives.
A field crash investigation lab, high-voltage battery lab, forensics lab, 1,640-ft. track and a Vehicle Dynamics Area pad are scheduled to be operational in fall 2023.
For Wards Intelligence Subscribers The upstart battery recycler is developing a process, starting in California, for the collection of Ford and Volvo’s spent Li-ions.
Test Drive The re-engineered Frontier is a competitive offering in a truck segment bristling with activity. Based on brisk sales since its arrival in September, Nissan executives might be correct in predicting annual first full-year sales of 70,000 units.
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