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- An aerodynamic advancement takes wing
Guests:
Mike Hurley, vice president of global business development, ConMet
Daniel Burrows, general manager and vice president, Truck Wings, ConMet
Topic: The recent acquisition of Truck Wings, the fuel-saving, automatic gap-closing technology for tractor-trailers, could make the technology a household name as part of the ConMet portfolio of products. Truck Wings and Truck Labs have been around for a few years and have demonstrated their success in aerodynamic gains.
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29 min - Fighting to slow California’s emissions-cutting roll
Guest: Jim Mullen, executive director, Clean Freight Coalition
Topic: Major trucking organizations think California and states following its emissions-cutting Advanced Clean Truck and Advanced Clean Fleet rules are moving too fast and potentially threatening fleet businesses. Jim Mullen, executive director of the Clean Freight Coalition, makes the case.
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29 min - AI’s growing role in autonomous trucking
Guest: Raquel Urtasun, founder and CEO, Waabi Innovation
Topic: The newer players in autonomous trucking are leaning into generative AI as a differentiator for their robotic driving systems. Waabi trains its data to create simulations that might not occur anytime soon in the real world.
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28 min - A future fuel cell scenario
Guests: Matthias Jurytko, CEO, cellcentric Andreas Gorbach, Daimler Truck head of technology
Topic: Following the successful 650-mile run for its Mercedes-Benz GenH2 fuel cell truck in Germany, the head of the cellcentric joint venture between Daimler Truck and Volvo Group, and Daimler's head of technology shared their thinking on the future of hydrogen fuel cells.
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31 min - High desert autononomy
Guests:
Joanna Buttler, Daimler Truck head of Global Autonomous Strategy
Peter Vaughn Schmidt, CEO, Torc Robotics
Topic:
The Daimler Truck approach to autonomous trucking is simple: Sell Freightliner trucks to customers and have them order autonomous driving systems from its independent subsidiary Torc Robotics. With specially built preproduction Cascadias now arriving, the road to 2027 commercialization begins in earnest.
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28 min - Unpacking Mack's electric truck subscription
Guests: George Fotopoulos, Mack Trucks E-Mobility vice president & Scott Barraclough, Mack senior product manager, E-Mobility
Topic: Does a subscription model make sense to win over fence sitters worried about the cost of electric trucks? Mack is going to find out with its offering for the Class 6 and 7 MD Electric.
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23 min - Helping small fleets buy electric trucks
Guest: Niki Okuk, Deputy Director, Calstart
Topic: California has an effective incentive program for electric truck buyers -- using pollution fines to help buy down the cost of battery-electric models. The target is now shifting to often underserved small fleets.
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29 min - Dispatches from Austin
Guests:
- Rebecca Brewster, president, American Transportation Research Institute
- Jai Ranganathan, chief product officer, Motive
- Keith Brandis, Volvo Trucks North America vice president of partnerships
Topic: The American Trucking Associations Management Conference and Exhibition is not known as a technology show. But there was plenty of it
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29 min - Simplifying connected trucks
Guest: Jake Fields, co-founder and chief technology officer, Platform Science
Topic: The Virtual Vehicle from Platform Science continues to attract major OEMs and large fleets with the simple idea of running everything a truck driver and the back office needs on a single platform.
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29 min - Startups get a hand up at Volvo’s CampX
Guest: Helene Niklasson, head of Volvo CampX
Topic: Finding and incubating the best young startups and validating their ideas is helping Volvo Group solve challenges in electromobility, manufacturing and sustainability.
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About Truck Tech
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Thomas Wasson discusses all things commercial trucking and technology.