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How will Bentley become an electric-only luxury brand, what models will we see during the transition, and what pains are being taken to appease North American buyers? We posed these questions to Christophe Georges, president and CEO of Bentley Motors in the Americas. "We will have a new full lineup of electric cars," Georges says […]

Long before our beloved 2021 Ram 1500 TRX accumulated any Trans-America Trail dust, it spent a month in Michigan accumulating its manual-recommended break-in procedure: keep engine speeds below 3,500 rpm with no wide-open-throttle for the first 100 miles; 5,000 rpm max up to 300 miles; no sustained WOT up to 500 miles; and then until […]

Embark Trucks Inc., a developer of autonomous technology for the trucking industry, announced Monday, May 9, that it has successfully completed on-road testing in snowy conditions in Montana. The testing, which Embark announced earlier this year, was conducted to demonstrate the performance  of Embark’s patent-pending Vision Map Fusion (VMF) technology in regions that experience severe […]

Ram has released yet another teaser of the Ram 1500 EV, this time in an animated tweet depicting the electric pickup's front end styling—at least in broad strokes. When Ram goes EV, it will go big; with a drastic new look, better-late-than-never attributes, and plans for a heavy-duty electric truck including a version that uses […]

Toyota is finally launching a mass-market, battery-electric vehicle—the bZ4X—just as it is about to trigger a phase-out of federal EV tax credits.Toyota is reaching the 200,00-vehicle limit thanks to strong sales of its plug-in gasoline-electric hybrids, both the Prius Prime and the RAV4 Prime.If you’re interested in a RAV4 Prime or a bZ4X, you should […]

The Ford F-150 Lightning towing capacity of up to 10,000 pounds is a boon for owners, but it comes with extra stress associated with towing weight, road condition, weather, etc., over long distances. To fix this, Ford introduces three smart technologies for the 2022 Lightning that can precisely calculate the trucks’ remaining range using real-time […]

While we widely think of the General Motors EV1—or its preceding Impact concept car—as starting the era of the electric car. But there were others in that era, that followed a similar formula and might have potentially come to market earlier. One of them came from Nissan. As recently discussed by Japanese Nostalgic Car (via […]

Nemechek, who won the pole earlier in the day, clearly had one of the fastest trucks but he was forced to pit a second time under caution early in Stage 2 for a loose wheel. By the end of the stage he had worked his back up front but then made contact with Christian Eckes […]

Truck transportation jobs in the U.S. rose by an amount in April that had not been seen in nine years. After the March report showed a drop in jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis compared to February, the first decline since truck transportation employment began to climb out of the hole created in April 2020, […]

In acknowledgement of her many industry and community accomplishments, on May 3, professional truck driver Carmen Anderson was presented with the keys to a new Volvo VNL760 70-inch sleeper specially wrapped to help raise awareness of Special Olympics. The handover event was held at the headquarters of America’s Service Line (ASL) in Green Bay, a […]