Articles Tagged with ''electric trucks''

To error-proof assembly, engineers wanted to implement a system to guide workers through each fastening step while ensuring complete traceability. The Nexonar real-time location system from Desoutter fit the bill.

SANTA TERESA, NM—GreenPower Motor Co., a Canadian manufacturer of electric school buses and Class 4 commercial vehicles, plans to build an assembly plant here.

WEST LAFAYETTE, IN—Engineers at Purdue University recently designed a roadway that wirelessly charges heavy-duty electric trucks driving at highway speeds.

PIEDMONT, SC—Isuzu North America Corp. held a groundbreaking ceremony here today for its new $280 million truck assembly plant.

MUNICH—MAN Truck & Bus has officially launched a series of production of its battery-electric trucks at the company’s main manufacturing facility in Munich. For the first time, electric and diesel trucks will be assembled on the same production line in a fully integrated, flexible process.

FONTANA, CA—ZM Trucks, a subsidiary of ZO Motors Co., plans to build medium-duty battery-powered trucks at a new 210,000-square-foot assembly plant here. 

MANNHEIM, Germany—Mercedes-Benz Trucks has begun assembling a key component of its new eActros 600 long-haul truck at its factory here.

CHARLOTTE, MI—Builtmore Contract Manufacturing has started to assemble Isuzu’s NRR-EV truck at its facility here.

HONG KONG—Windrose Technology, a Chinese start-up, plans to build an assembly plant in Georgia to mass-produce battery-powered Class 8 vehicles.

WEST LAFAYETTE, IN—Engineers at Purdue University and the Indiana Department of Transportation are developing a way for electric vehicles to wirelessly charge while driving on highways.