Ford has three separate issues requiring recalls. They affect more than 2.3 million of its SUVs in all, including models from Lincoln, the Blue Oval’s luxury brand. Ford has issued 18 recalls so far in 2026 affecting 7.4 million vehicles and one tiny engine-block-heater campaign. This new 2.3 million SUV batch is just the latest …
For years all the Tesla haters would talk about how EV competition was coming for Tesla. Now Ford is cancelling the F-150 Lightning and it will be replaced with an extended range hybrid. Ford CEO Jim Farley: “Instead of plowing billions into the future knowing these large EVs will never make money, we are pivoting.” …
When you manage a fleet, costs always have a way of creeping upward. And while you can’t control every variable, you can influence how efficiently your fleet runs and how much value you get out of every mile, vehicle, and dollar you invest. That’s what ROI really means in fleet management. To put it another …
There is an intermediate step before fully automated self-driving (FSD) trucking and that is automated truck platooning, where multiple Tesla Semi trucks follow a lead vehicle with only one driver for a whole fleet. This is enabled by advanced FSD software available in 2025. This would be significant scale starting in late 2026, leveraging Tesla’s …
PepsiCo’s best-performing Tesla Semi traveled an average of 574 miles per day over the course of 18 days at the RunonLess Real World data tracking event. The next best non-Tesla vehicle was WattEV’s Nikola Tre BEV, which traveled an average of 255 miles per day. OK Produce’s Freightliner eCascadia averaged 181 miles per day, and …
On Day 10 of the Runonless real world tests, the truck 1 Pepsi Tesla Semi drove 841 miles with one 96% recharge during the day. It drove at about 60 mph and got 841 miles from 175% charge. On Day 11, the truck 1 was driven for 853 miles and the other each for over …
There is now real world driving data on the Tesla Semi and other electric Semi trucks from the Runonless testing event. The World has a global fleet of about 30 million Semi trucks and about 3 million are purchased every year. 70% of the large and Semi trucks are bought and used in Asia. Nearly …
The Run on Less Event is testing electric semi trucks with real world deliveries to test their range and payload performance. Tesla is getting up to double the range of many of the competing electric trucks. Freightliner is owned by Daimler and they are the largest semi truck company in the world. There are also …
During an interview with CNBC/Mad Money/Jim Cramer, Ford CEO Jim Farley dismissed the Tesla Cybertruck as a high-end product targeted at Silicon Valley rather than a truck for real working people. In the United States, Ford F-Series deliveries totaled 170,377 units in Q1 2023, an increase of about 21 percent compared to 140,701 units sold …
Tesla will delay the production ramp to late 2024. A few months ago, Elon and other Tesla executives talked about a 50,000 vehicle production goal of having mass production of the Tesla Semi in 2024. This new delay in production is due to a shortage of batteries. The Tesla 4680 ramp will likely only be …
Amogy Inc., a pioneer of emission-free, energy-dense ammonia power solutions, announced today the successful testing of the first-ever ammonia-powered, zero-emission semi truck. Amogy has received $150 million in funding. The system has 5x higher system-level energy densities compared to lithium batteries. The volumetric energy density of liquid ammonia is almost 3x greater than that of …