Truck & Off-Highway Engineering - August 2022 - 28

ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT
" Right now, we're
focusing more on short
haul, which I think is
what most alternativeenergy
concept trucks
are doing. "
- Steve Ramirez, Hyundai
Volvo Financial Services is working with QCD to fund the charging infrastructure for its Fontana facility
by leasing two portable DCFS 50-kW chargers and eight permanent DCFS 180-kW charging stations.
We learned a lot about chargers, we
learned a lot about how to manufacture.
All that is now in this lessons-learned
guidebook, which you can download
from the website... This is the same [as
the seatbelt]. This isn't a secret. We want
everybody around here to learn from it
so we can accelerate the shift towards a
zero-emission transport environment. "
Other news, in brief
Cummins debuted a 15-L hydrogen engine
at the ACT Expo. The new powerplant
fits into Cummins' fuel-agnostic
platform that keeps components relatively
similar below the head gasket and
lets the parts above the head gasket
account for different fuel types. The
15-L H2 version is expected to go into
production in 2027.
WattEV is a group with the goal to
get 12,000 heavy-duty electric trucks
on the road in California by the end of
2030. To that end, the company anCummins
debuted a 15-L
hydrogen engine that is expected
to go into production in 2027.
effectively employ, Volvo Trucks North
America (VTNA) president Peter
Voorhoeve said at the show.
To prove the point, VTNA announced
in Long Beach that Quality Custom
Distribution (QCD), a food service company,
and NFI Industries, a supply chain
solutions provider, both recently made
large orders for Volvo's battery-powered
VNR Electric freight trucks. QCD
ordered 30 additional VNR Electrics
while NFI ordered 60.
" [The sales mean] the concept works, "
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Voorhoeve said. " It's real. It's not a gadget.
It's something that really works, and
we see now that it is going forward. "
Voorhoeve also compared the way
Volvo is making some details of the
LIGHTS project public to the way Volvo
Cars decided not to patent the threepoint
seatbelt in the 1950s - because
the larger mission of lowering emissions
from work trucks is more important
than just making money.
" We learned a lot, " Voorhoeve said.
" We learned a lot about infrastructure.
nounced at ACT Expo that it will build a
" charging plaza " for heavy-duty EVs at
the Port of Long Beach. By the end of
2023, WattEV wants to build what it's
calling an " electric-truck charging highway "
that runs from the Port of Long
Beach to Sacramento.
The latest State of Sustainable Fleets
Report was released during the ACT
Expo. Sponsored by DTNA, Penske
Transportation Solutions, Cummins and
Shell Oil Company, the report found
that almost 85% of fleets surveyed say
their use of " clean-vehicle technologies "
is only going to grow. Read more at
www.sae.org/news/2022/05/alternative-propulsion-poised-for-growth.
Sebastian
Blanco
TRUCK & OFF-HIGHWAY ENGINEERING
FROM TOP: VOLVO; CUMMINS
http://www.sae.org/news/2022/05/alternative-propulsion-poised-for-growth
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