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Engines
New Emissions Regulations to Benefit Smaller Engines
Americas Commercial Transportation Research Co. LLC/ACT Research
ACT Research reports use of smaller engines continues to grow in the heavy-duty truck market, and will benefit from future emissions regulations.
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Trends
Daimler Trucks Launches Battery Electric Freightliner Customer Experience Fleet
Daimler Truck North America LLC
Freightliner CX Fleet participants are a group of customers working with Freightliner to identify and address all potential hurdles to large-scale deployment of commercial battery electric vehicles.
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On-Highway
Nikola Forms Merger with VectoIQ to Accelerate Development of Hydrogen Fueled Vehicles
Nikola Corporation
The merger will help accelerate production, allow Nikola to break ground on its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Arizona, and begin its hydrogen station infrastructure roll-out.
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On-Highway
Daimler Reorganizing Freightliner and Western Star into Segment-Based Business Structure
Daimler Truck North America LLC
The new business structure better positions DTNA to serve both the on-highway and vocational segments by aligning internal resources to segment-specific customer needs.
David Carson, Richard Howard and Stefan Kurschner address Freightliner and Western Star dealers at DTNA's annual dealer meeting.
On-Highway
EU Commercial Vehicle Registrations Decline 11.5% in January
European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA)
ACEA reports demand for commercial vehicles fell in all segments except buses across the European Union.
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Operator Cab
Mack Trucks Introduces New Steering Feature, Receives SmartWay Certification
Mack Trucks Inc.
The Mack Anthem is now available with an advanced active steering system to improve driver comfort and productivity, and day cab models are EPA SmartWay certified to provide fuel efficiency benefits.
Mack Command Steer in the Mack Anthem helps to keep drivers comfortable and productive.
Engines
Ricardo to Support SuperTurbo Technologies with Product Industrialization
Ricardo plc
Ricardo will provide product industrialization expertise to help in planning the route to commercial manufacture of SuperTurbo Technologies' SuperTurbo system.
SuperTurbo Technologies has previously worked with Allison Transmission to develop a demonstration truck (pictured) in order to validate its SuperTurbo system.
On-Highway
ACT Research Reports Class 8 Production Outpaced Sales in January
Americas Commercial Transportation Research Co. LLC/ACT Research
ACT says the Class 8 seasonally adjusted inventory-to-retail sales ratio rose to 3.9 months, which is the second highest reading in history.
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Automated Systems
Daimler Trucks and Torc Robotics Expand Public Road Testing of Automated Truck
Daimler AG
Daimler and Torc Robotics are expanding testing of their SAE Level 4 automated truck technology to new public routes in the U.S. in order to collect data from real-world traffic scenarios.
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Automated Systems
Truck Platooning Expected to Make Inroads in 2020
Truck platooning continues to be an area of development for some commercial vehicle OEMs who believe there is still opportunity for the technology to advance and become more widespread in some markets.
Peloton's PlatoonPro uses V2V communications, radar-based active braking, and vehicle control algorithms.
Trends
Volvo Trucks Demonstrates All-Electric VNR as Part of LIGHTS Innovation Showcase
Volvo Trucks North America
Volvo Trucks North America provided a first look at its Class 8 battery-electric project trucks
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On-Highway
January Class 8 Truck Sales Lower than Previous Year
FTR Transportation Intelligence
Weak freight market and rate conditions, as well as a backlog of vehicles are among the factors which lead to lower Class 8 Truck sales in January.
Sales of Class 8 trucks in North America were down 10% on a month-over-month basis, reports FTR.
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