Emma N. Hurt is an Atlanta-based freelance journalist whose work has appeared in outlets including the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the Wall Street Journal and the Atlanta Business Chronicle. She can be found on Twitter: @Emma_Hurt.
CharIN has been working to promote the CCS electric vehicle charging standard in passenger vehicles. Now it wants to extend the standard to heavy- and medium-duty vehicles.
The Georgia Department of Transportation has planned an unprecedented barrier-separated, commercial vehicle-only lane project. It would also be the country’s first smart commercial vehicle corridor.
As telematics, sensors and computerization in tractors have become standard features, comparable technologies in the trailers hooked behind are finally catching up.
While driverless big trucks remain fodder for press releases and experiments, the trucking industry is making other levels of autonomous technology increasingly standard.
Since leaving Tesla, Ian Wright has focused on electrification of the heavy-duty vehicles that made economic sense. The EV industry veteran tells Trucks.com how things have progressed.