Truck Tech: Recent Episodes
Alan Adler
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. Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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? Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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. Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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? Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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. Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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? Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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. Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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. Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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. Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Our Next Energy is on its way to providing 600 miles of range on a single charge for its lithium iron phosphate batteries. Founder and CEO Mujeeb Ajaz believes scaling the technology will be the long-sought battery breakthrough by the end of the decade. Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Lightning eMotors will need more money to scale the electrification of school buses and transit vans. But it occupies a niche with few competitors. Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Guest: Gareth Joyce, CEO, Proterra Inc. Topic: Amid a tough business environment, Proterra is working to contain costs and consolidate its electric buses and battery assembly in South Carolina. Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It will be awhile before human drivers lose their seats in autonomous trucks, but it’s already happened in distribution yards using Outrider technology. Andrew Smith, CEO and Founder of Outrider Inc, joins the show today to discuss the latest in autonomous driving technology. Follow the Truck Tech Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows
The Advanced Clean Transportation Expo by all accounts is the must-attend industry show as trucking transitions to zero emissions and carbon neutrality. Join Alan Adler has he covers wide range of topics with multiple top of the industry guests including...
- Erik Neandross, CEO, Gladstein, Neandross and Associates
- Matt Horton, Founding CEO, Voltera Power
- Carey Mendes, President, Energy, Nikola Corp
- Mark Freymueller, Senior Vice President Commercial Vehicle Business Innovation, Hyundai Motor Co.
- Ken Ramirez, Global Executive Vice President, Head of Global Commercial Vehicle and Hydrogen Fuel Cell Business
- Daniel Barel, CEO, REE Automotive
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With hydrogen fuel cells eligible for significant incentives, Hyzon Motors CEO Parker Meeks looks forward, including to a pilot with hybrid powertrain maker Hyliion Holdings.
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Autonomous trucking generates a lot of headlines. It isn’t a viable business yet. And a shakeout of players continues. Chris Urmson, truly part of the old guard in autonomy and the co-founder and CEO of Aurora Innovation, offers his perspective.
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Guests: Angus Pacala, co-founder and CEO, Ouster Inc. and Sam Abuelsamid, principal analyst, Guidehouse Insights
Topic: The vast world of lidar suppliers all want to be the perception technology of choice for autonomous vehicles. It’s doubtful they all will survive the shakeout already underway.
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Alan hosts Mike Ramsey, Vice President and Analyst, Automotive and Smart Mobility at Gartner Inc. in the lastest episode of Truck Tech.
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As Gatik prepares to autonomously move groceries around Dallas for Kroger, Truck Tech catches up on the middle-mile driverless business with Gatik co-founder and CEO Gautam Narang.
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Truck Tech reports the latest from the Work Truck Week event in Indianapolis with Shyft Group CEO Daryl Adams talking about the reveal of a new version of the Blue Arc Class 5 electric truck; from-the-floor look at Work Truck Week with Antti Lindstrom of S&P Global Mobility and the story behind the rebranding of Cummins New Power division as Accelera with Cummins CEO Jennifer Rumsey and Accelera by Cummins President Amy Davis.
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Truck Tech explores the ready-or-not state of electric truck charging with a look at the North American Council for Freight Efficiency’s Run on Less Electric Depot program. What will it take to charge 15 or more trucks with behind-the-fence infrastructure?
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Jose Samperio, Executive Director and General Manager of Cummins North America On-Highway business and Andrew Wrobel, powertrain analyst with Rhein Associates
Truck Tech explores the future of trucking powertrains focusing on Cummins’ announcement that it is retiring two legacy powertrains in favor of a smaller-displacement engine capable of serving medium- and heavy-duty truck customers.
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Truck Tech explores prospects for a hydrogen economy with Nikola Energy President Carey Mendes and Hexagon Purus CEO Morten Holum.
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Guests: Mike Plasencia, Ryder System Inc., and Sam Saad, Gatik Inc.
Video from Daimler Truck North America’s reveal of its Super Truck 2 prototype at Manifest in Las Vegas and a discussion on lessons learned by Ryder and Gatik in working together on middle-mile autonomous trucking plus Ryder’s perspective on its partnerships with multiple Class 8 autonomous trucking startups.
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FreightWaves Midwest Bureau Chief Alan Adler welcomes Guidehouse Insights analyst Sam Abuelsamid to take a look at what's coming in the trucking technology space in 2023. They discuss where the transformation to electrification and autonomous trucking move this year, as well as some other predictions.
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FreightWaves’ Alan Adler covers the latest in trucking technology news and interviews Rebecca Brewster, president and chief operating officer of the American Transportation Research Institute on Truck Tech.
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FreightWaves’ Alan Adler covers the latest in trucking technology news and interviews John O’Leary, CEO Of Daimler Truck North America, in the first weekly episode of Truck Tech.