Jacobs launches engine brake for Hino XL Series trucks
Jacobs Vehicle Systems has launched a compression release engine brake for the 2020 Hino XL Series truck. The Jacobs Engine Brake is currently available on Hino’s A09 engine and will come factory-installed on all XL7 and XL8 Series trucks. Company engineers collaborated to optimize the engine brake for the new truck, the companies said. Some
Choosing the best truck for the job: Hino talks trucks built for ‘day-in-day-out’ work that minimize operating costs
According to Glenn Ellis, vice president, marketing & dealer operations for Hino Trucks, “Today’s vocational fleet managers demand trucks that are reliable, fuel efficient and work as hard as they do day in and day out. They are always looking for ways to minimize their operational cost and are looking to tools such as telematics
Hino Motors Manufacturing U.S.A. announces new president and CEO, COO
Davey Jung succeeds Masamichi Mizukoshi, who retired from Hino.
Mitsubishi Fuso, Ample to partner on battery-swapping technology for electric trucks
The companies will collaborate to pair Mitsubishi Fuso EVs with Ample’s Modular Battery Swapping technology.
Mitsubishi Fuso, Hino announce merger, plans to accelerate development of advanced technologies
Daimler Truck, MFTBC, Hino, and Toyota will collaborate toward achieving carbon neutrality and creating a widening mobility offering.
The spec’ing decisions that power electric trucks
When it comes to medium-duty EVs, it’s not just all about range.
Kuehne+Nagel uses Zeem Solutions’s electric-trucks-as-a-service model
Kuehne+Nagel uses Zeem electric trucks to service regional warehouses and distribution centers within a 60-90 mile radius of LAX.
Live blog: Lessons learned from two years of electric truck operation with Volvo Trucks
February 2020. Volvo Trucks was poised to bring change to trucking in California with the unveiling of the VNR Electric and the development of a holistic electric truck strategy to make them a reality. And then the world changed a month later. But the innovation didn’t stop. The Volvo LIGHTS project rolled forward. Volvo Trucks
Hino to join hydrogen demo study in California ports
Hino USA announced that it has been awarded a grant provided by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), a Japanese governmental agency, to promote new technology for energy and environmental sector, along with Hino Motors, Ltd. The grant supports the demonstration of Hino’s Class 8 hydrogen fuel cell trucks in real world
Volvo Trucks, NFI team up for Run on Less – Electric
Volvo Trucks North America, along with third-party supply chain solutions provider NFI, is participating in Run on Less–Electric (RoL-E), an electric truck technology demonstration that showcases advancements in freight efficiency. In 2020, NFI became one of the first fleets in North America to take delivery of Volvo VNR Electrics, which operate out of its Chino
