Fontaine Modification names Jennifer Sweet vice president of work truck sales and business development
Fontaine Modification Work Truck & EV Solutions has hired Jennifer Sweet as vice president of work truck sales and business development. Sweet began her career at a full-line GM dealership as commercial manager selling GM light and medium duty vehicles. She later spent 10 years with a GM and Isuzu joint venture as a medium duty
BYD, AVSTA agree on battery electric school buses
BYD and the Antelope Valley Schools Transportation Agency (AVSTA) announced Monday a plan to bring 20 battery electric school buses to students in the Antelope Valley. The buses will be built in Lancaster, Calif., at the BYD Coach and Bus facility by members of the SMART Union. AVSTA CEO Morris Fuselier III expressed excitement about
Morgan Olson, EAVX, REE Automotive show off a newly-designed electric walk-in step van
EAVX, Morgan Olson and REE Automotive are hosting the first live demonstrations and customer evaluations this week of Proxima Powered by REE, the newly announced fully drive-by-wire walk-in step van. The joint events highlight the benefits of the newly-designed EAVX and Morgan Olson body paired with REE’s fully-flat, modular P7 chassis and x-by-wire technology. Over the next several weeks,
Isuzu, Cummins partner to create a battery electric truck
Cummins and Isuzu Motors Limited recently announced an agreement to create a prototype medium-duty, battery electric truck to demonstrate in North America. This truck represents the first zero-emissions solution facilitated by the Isuzu Cummins Powertrain Partnership (ICPP) formed in May 2019. Through this arrangement, Cummins will integrate the Cummins PowerDrive6000 into Isuzu’s F-Series truck and
Isuzu Commercial Truck announces contest winners
Isuzu Commercial Truck of America, distributor of low cab forward trucks, has announced the winners of its 2022 National Sales Walkaround, National Service Walkaround, National Parts Salesperson Product Presentation and North America I-1 Grand Prix Technical competitions. The finals of all four contests took place at Isuzu’s Center of Excellence in Pittston, Penn., between August
Sono Motors unveils production design of its Solar Bus Kit
Sono Motors recently held its first “Celebrate the Sun” Community event. During which, the Munich-based OEM celebrated the debut of its Solar Bus Kit, a scalable B2B retrofit solution that reduces fuel consumption and inner-city greenhouse gas emissions, thereby contributing to climate protection, the company noted. The Solar Bus Kit is optimized for the most
Xos makes initial delivery of 100% battery-electric stepvans to Gabrielli Truck Sales
Xos, a fleet services provider and manufacturer of Class 5 through Class 8 battery-electric vehicles, recently announced it has signed a dealership agreement and initial delivery with Gabrielli Truck Sales to offer the suite of Xos vehicles to its customers across New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Gabrielli will be selling Xos’ flagship Class 5
Pegasus Bus introduces Atlas models using Peterbilt Chassis
Pegasus Bus Co. recently announced details surrounding the design of its all-new Atlas models today. The advanced, feature-rich Atlas bodies will be built for shuttle, paratransit and Type A school buses on the Peterbilt 535 chassis, and for shuttle, paratransit and Type C school buses on the Peterbilt 536 and 537 chassis. At 48 seats,
Lightning eMotors, Collins Bus to expand electric school bus offering
Lightning eMotors, a provider of medium-duty and specialty commercial electric vehicles for fleets, and Collins Bus Corp., a manufacturer of Type A School Buses and a subsidiary of REV Group recently announced the expansion of their zero-emission Type A school bus offering to include both GM and Ford chassis platforms. Expansion of the Lightning eMotors-Collins
Medium-duty box trucks are electrifiable, NACFE reports
The North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) released the fourth and final market segment report—Electric Trucks Have Arrived: The Use Case For Medium-Duty Box Trucks—based on findings from last year’s Run on Less – Electric (RoL-E) freight efficiency demonstration. The top level finding from the report is that 100% of that market segment will embrace
Lightning eMotors repowers vehicles for zero-emission shuttle services
Lightning eMotors, a provider of zero emissions medium duty commercial vehicles and electric vehicle technology, is giving old gasoline and diesel vehicles a second zero-emissions life by repowering a variety of passenger transit vehicles for shuttle service providers to some of the leading tech companies located throughout Silicon Valley. The all-electric vehicles include Class 3
Dana, Lion Electric Co. announce long-term agreement for electrified systems
Dana Incorporated recently announced that it has confirmed its strategic supply relationship with current OEM partner Lion Electric Co. to support its line-up of electric buses as well as medium- and heavy-duty trucks. The strategic relationship covers the supply of the electrical drive systems, including electric motors, inverters, and controllers, as well as axles and
