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Heavy Duty EVs

35 posts

Heavy duty electric vehicles EVs are becoming increasingly more viable. Reads news and articles on the manufacturer and deployment of HDEV trucks in Canada.

Zero-emission heavy-duty vehicles are arriving but supportive policies needed, too: report

North American sales of electric commercial trucks are minuscule, but a new joint Canadian-American report reveals an ample product pipeline in a market that requires user buy-in to take off

Commercial Electric and Zero Emission Vehicles, EV Manufacturing, Heavy Duty EVs, International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), Research Reports

Brian Banks
October 30, 2020
5 minute read

EV Charging

Megawatt Charging System set to rapidly reduce fuelling time for commercial EVs

An international task force says their recent high power “charge-in” event has yielded promising results with successful testing of novel connector prototypes that could overhaul the long-haul industry

Commercial Electric and Zero Emission Vehicles, Heavy Duty EVs, Megawatt Charging Standard

Emma Jarratt
October 30, 2020
5 minute read

Tesla Semi, as ordered by Walmart Canada

Fleets

Walmart places one of Canada’s largest electric truck orders, 130 Tesla Semis

Retail giant Walmart Canada boosts its order of 18-wheeler Tesla Semi trucks three-fold and pledges that its entire fleet will be “alternatively powered” by 2028

Commercial Electric and Zero Emission Vehicles, Electric Trucks, Heavy Duty EVs, Tesla Canada

Emma Jarratt
September 29, 2020
2 minute read

Topics

Quebec partners land order for all-electric ZEV garbage trucks

Lion Electric and Boivin Evolution combined their talents and technology to secure a U.S. deal with waste management giant Waste Connections

Commercial Electric and Zero Emission Vehicles, Electric Vehicles Canada, Heavy Duty EVs, Lion Electric

Katie Ingram
July 10, 2020
3 minute read

Images of trucks at the Canadian US border

Thanks to new California regulations, more zero-emission trucks are coming — but will they ever get to Canada?

If Canada wants to capitalize on the value proposition of zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, it needs federal policies and national leadership to achieve it

Alberta, Commercial Electric and Zero Emission Vehicles, Electric Trucks, Heavy Duty EVs, Hydrogen & Hydrogen Fuel Cells, ZEV Mandates Canada

Dan Woynillowicz
July 8, 2020
5 minute read