Truck Tech

Guest: Salim Youssefzadeh, CEO, WattEV

Topic: WattEV is all about using other people’s money -- specifically generous grants for electric trucks and infrastructure -- to build its business. So far, it’s a winning formula.

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Guests: Mark Esguerra, director of distribution planning and strategy, Southern California Edison, and Tom Ashley, Voltera vice president of government and utility relations

Topic: Utilities often get fingers pointed at them for the lagging development of electric infrastructure for commercial vehicles. But are they really to blame?

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Guest: David Liu, co-founder and CEO, Plus

Topic: Plus takes a different approach to autonomous trucking, making the driving task easier while evolving toward removing the driver. Is it a winning strategy?

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Guest: Sterfan Heck, founder and CEO, Nauto

Topic: As the number of truck crashes continues to rise, an 8-year-old startup offering artificial intelligence-backed prompts to drivers that could help reverse the deadly trend.

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Steve Girsky helped bring Nikola public three years ago. Now he is running the day-to-day operations as the third CEO in less than a year. What does the future hold for the electric truck manufacturer and hydrogen distributor?

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Guests: Mike Roeth, executive director, North American Council for Freight Efficiency

Ken Marko, Fleet Sustainability Senior Manager, U.S. Foods

Topic: The North American Council for Freight Efficiency’s Run on Less program is a form of truth test for how well trucks can perform at their best. Two years of focus on electric trucks is revealing the good and bad in the transition from diesel power.

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Guest: Jeff Farrah, executive director, Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association

Topic: The Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association is fighting California legislators and the Teamsters over a possible ban of heavy-duty autonomous trucking without safety drivers. Where will this shake out?

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Guests: Don Burnette, Kodiak Robotics and Brett Suma, Loadsmith

Loadsmith’s order of up to 800 Kodiak Robotics autonomous driving systems is the clearest sign yet that driverless trucks are edging closer to reality.

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Roger Nielsen, chairman, Proterra Inc., knew he would stay involved in future mobility when he retired as CEO of Daimler Truck North America in 2021. Boy, has he ever.

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As the global market leader in every trucking segment in which it participates, Daimler Truck fears no competitor. But it is concerned that words alone will not solve infrastructure and climate change issues as the industry transitions to zero emissions.

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