GNA’s survey of market trends released this week found that heavy-duty electric truck deployments in the U.S. “In every sector, fleets are increasingly turning to a spectrum of advanced clean vehicle technologies and low-carbon fuels to not only meet their sustainability goals but improve their fleet’s bottom line,” Erik Neandross, CEO of GNA, the ACT Expo’s organizer, said in opening remarks at the start of the weeklong event. This week Freightliner, a Daimler brand, unveiled a new version of its electric Cascadia truck that goes 230 miles per charge, and last month Nikola began delivering its Tre BEV truck that gets up to 350 miles per charge. Freightliner, Kenworth, Peterbilt, Volvo, BYD and Lion Electric already sell battery-powered semis to U.S. Musk said last month during Tesla’s results call that it might go into production by 2023 at the new Giga Texas plant in Austin. The company missed that target and hasn’t announced an official new date for the Semi’s release. Elon Musk said his electric car company would shake up the trucking industry when he unveiled the Tesla Semi in 2017, promising a heavy hauler that would go 500 miles per charge and hit the market by late 2019. Tesla was a notable absence from the advanced truck show. Bake in generous incentives, such as rebates of up to the $120,000 per truck that California provides, and the switch to electric vehicles looks even more compelling.įreightliner is rolling out an updated version of its Cascadia electric semi with up to 230 miles of range per charge. While the purchase price for battery and hydrogen vehicles exceeds that of diesel, gasoline and natural-gas fueled trucks, potentially by tens of thousands of dollars, the companies all say the total cost of ownership, including fuel and maintenance expenses, gives them an advantage. “That’s 50% by 2030 and by 2040, 100%.”Īlong with Navistar, top global truck manufacturers and brands, including Daimler Truck, Volvo, Hyundai and Hino, Peterbilt, Kenworth, International and Mack, China’s BYD, engine giant Cummins and electric truck startups including Proterra, Nikola, Hyzon, Hyliion and Xos are scrambling to get zero-emission commercial vehicles into operation with trucking and logistics customers, as well as city fleets. As a result, “We believe 50% of our sales will be electric by 2030,” said Carlbaum. In part, that’s because the Volkswagen Group affiliate will leverage technology improvements flowing from VW’s plan to spend $100 billion on battery and electric propulsion R&D.
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Mathias Carlbaum, Navistar president and CEO “The point of cost parity (of electric trucks), depending on the application, is much sooner than many think.”
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