TrueCar, Inc. (NASDAQ:TRUE) has announced a new partnership with eBay Motors to provide a new car buying service for eBay’s shoppers. The program, powered by TrueCar, gives eBay shoppers pricing information from TrueCar Dealers for new cars and enables eBay shoppers to engage with TrueCar Certified Dealers for the purchase of a new vehicle. “Together […]
BYD, the world’s largest manufacturer of electric vehicles, has introduced its class 8 battery-electric refuse truck. According to the company, the new vehicle “represents the first heavy-duty refuse truck designed and built by an original equipment manufacturer and is 100 percent battery electric.” BYD’s 10-ton payload refuse truck provides 76 miles of range with minimal […]
Lightning Hybrids has announced it will change its name to Lightning Systems, effective immediately. The company further noted that in the next two years it will introduce a “new lineup of fleet efficiency products to support commercial and government fleets.” To keep up with demand, support manufacturing of new products, and to service its customers, […]
Heavy duty vehicle lift leader Stertil-Koni has announced that six distributors in its North American network have earned the company’s first-ever Aspire Program awards. The Aspire Program salutes Stertil-Koni distributors who have achieved marked incremental sales gains on a year-over-year basis, thereby placing them in a new, heightened level of performance. Recipients of the Stertil-Koni […]
Rand McNally has announced an all-in-one dashboard device that combines truck navigation, an on-board SiriusXM® radio, voice assistance, a built-in dash cam, and hands-free calling and texting. Called the OverDryve™ 8 Pro, the new systems is part of Rand McNally’s OverDryve™ OS Connected Vehicle platform and is also E-Log ready. The product is shipping to […]
UPS (NYSE: UPS) has announced it will deploy a prototype extended range Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV) in its Rolling Laboratory fleet of alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles. UPS is working with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and other partners to design a first-of-its-kind, zero tailpipe emissions, Class 6 medium-duty delivery truck that […]
BYD, the world’s largest manufacturer of electric vehicles, has announced the delivery of three additional buses to Columbia, Missouri, bringing the total to nine and representing the first and only battery-electric fleet in revenue service in Missouri, and one of the largest in the Midwest. “Columbia is home to over two million annual transit rides […]
BYD, the world’s largest manufacturer of electric vehicles, has announced that Howard County Transit, a division of the Regional Transit Authority of Central Maryland (RTA), has received delivery of three 35-foot BYD K9S Battery-Electric, Zero-Emission Buses. The company reports that these are the first zero-emission electric transit buses in Maryland. To support the effort, an […]
Toyota Motor North America has unveiled a new initiative that its calls “Project Portal” – consisting of a hydrogen fuel cell system designed for heavy duty truck use at the Port of Los Angeles. The approached was announced at a press conference with Port officials and representatives from California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the […]
Lancaster, Pennsylvania-based wholesale energy provider to the Mid-Atlantic and New England, AMERIgreen Energy, and its 100% American Fuel dealers throughout PA, MD and DE are hosting a Video Essay Challenge. Students are invited to express their views on energy solutions for the future in a 30 second video. Prompt questions are supplied focusing on energy […]
