Commercial vehicle

  • Tesla Semi

    Tesla on Thursday took the covers off its long-awaited electric semi-trailer truck. Dubbed simply the Tesla Semi, the truck promises both the longest range for an electric hauler as well as the best safety credentials of any truck its class, in this case Class 8 Heavy Duty. The Tesla Semi also has a center driving position, giving it something in common with the McLaren F1 supercar. Speaking of supercars, the Semi is said to feature a super-slippery coefficient of drag of just 0.36 Cd, which is comparable with many supercar models. This is made possible by the streamlined shape which...

  • E-Fuso Vision One concept
    E-Fuso Vision One heavy-duty electric truck concept with 217-mile range debuts in Tokyo

    Daimler’s Japanese truck brand Fuso used this week’s 2017 Tokyo Motor Show to present a heavy-duty electric truck. Called the E-Fuso Vision One, the truck’s debut also marked the launch of E-Fuso, Fuso’s new sub-brand for electric trucks and buses. The E-Fuso Vision One...

  • Volkswagen e-Delivery
    Volkswagen Group promises electric trucks and buses by 2018

    Volkswagen Truck & Bus, the Volkswagen Group’s commercial vehicles unit responsible for the Man and Scania brands, and also a strategic partner of Navistar in the United States, is the latest to announce a commitment to electrification. The company wants to introduce electric vans and...

  • Toyota 'Project Portal' proof-of-concept hydrogen fuel-cell powered semi tractor, for Port of LA
    Toyota starts testing Project Portal fuel cell semi truck

    Toyota in April revealed a fuel cell-powered semi-trailer truck as part of its Project Portal program which aims to determine whether there’s a viable future for the zero-emission technology when it comes to heavy-duty applications. On Thursday, the automaker announced that the truck is...

  • Teaser for Tesla semi truck debuting in September
    Tesla pushes back electric semi truck reveal, again

    We’ll now have to wait until November to see Tesla’s electric semi-trailer truck. After first stating in June that the truck would be unveiled in September, CEO Elon Musk in September pushed back the reveal date to October. Come October, and Musk has announced yet another delay, this...

  • General Motors’ Silent Utility Rover Universal Superstructure (SURUS)
    SURUS: GM's modular platform for silent, self-driving trucks

    While some automakers look to electrify conventional trucks, General Motors has taken a much more radical approach in its development of next-generation commercial vehicles. Meet the Silent Utility Rover Universal Superstructure, or SURUS for short. Unveiled on Friday ahead of the fall meeting of...

  • 2017 Fuso eCanter

    Tesla may have pushed back the reveal of its electric semi-trailer truck to October, but German auto giant Daimler is moving full-speed ahead with its own electric truck plans. This week Daimler, which owns the Mercedes-Benz and Smart car brands as well as the Freightliner and Western Star truck brands, revealed the production-ready Fuso eCanter electric truck. The first few hundred examples of the light-duty truck will be delivered starting this year in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Large-scale production is scheduled to commence in 2019, according to Daimler. The automaker also...

  • Cummins Urban Hauler Tractor concept
    Cummins beats Tesla to electric semi truck

    As Tesla fans and the industry at large await the reveal of the electric car brand’s promised semi-trailer truck in September, Cummins, most widely known for its diesel engines, has quietly unveiled an electric truck of its own. Cummins’ truck is strictly a concept, but the company is...

  • Teaser for Tesla semi truck debuting in September
    Report: Tesla semi truck to have 200-300 miles of range

    Tesla in September will reveal the design of an electric semi-trailer truck currently in the works. Plans for the truck were first detailed a year ago in part two of Tesla’s overarching product strategy known as the Tesla Master Plan. And in April we got our first taste in the form of the...

  • Volvo helps a 3-year-old set a new unboxing record
    A 3-year-old just set a world record for the largest unboxing, of a Volvo truck

    If you've been reading Motor Authority for some time, you know how we feel about Volvo Trucks. The marketing team over there always works hard to produce entertaining content, all in the name of commercial truck promotion. It can't be an easy task, yet they consistently provide fun and engaging...

  • Teaser for Tesla semi truck debuting in September
    Elon Musk teases Tesla semi truck, reveals tunnel-boring plans

    Tesla CEO Elon Musk has revealed more details on the company’s upcoming electric semi-trailer truck as well as his plans for a separate tunnel boring company aimed at alleviating traffic. During a TED talk held Friday in Vancouver, Musk presented the first image of the new Tesla truck which...

  • Toyota 'Project Portal' proof-of-concept hydrogen fuel-cell powered semi tractor, for Port of LA
    Toyota Project Portal imagines a fuel cell-powered semi truck future

    Tesla may have garnered buzz surrounding the announcement it will reveal a semi truck in September, but Toyota this week showed how it imagines revolutionizing the trucking industry. This hunk of tractor trailer metal is called Project Portal, and it's powered exclusively by a hydrogen fuel cell...

  • 2016 Tesla Model S

    The second half of 2017 will be busy for Tesla as the company reveals two new products and starts production of one of them. The first to arrive will be the highly-anticipated Model 3 sedan. It will be revealed in July, the same month the first customer examples are scheduled to roll off the line at the plant in Fremont, California. In September, Tesla will take the wraps off a semi truck that the company first detailed in July 2016 in part two of its overarching product strategy known as the Tesla Master Plan. The latest timing details were revealed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Thursday in his...

  • Volvo Concept Truck
    Volvo concept truck made more frugal with hybrid powertrain

    Volvo Trucks in 2016 unveiled a concept vehicle it claimed could achieve 30 percent better fuel efficiency than a conventional semi truck. Now, the Swedish company is testing an updated version equipped with a hybrid powertrain, in the hope of cutting fuel consumption even more. Volvo Trucks, which...

  • 2017 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Worker
    Mercedes Brings Down Sprinter Van Price With Worker Model

    If you need a seriously big van for your business, Mercedes-Benz has an excellent option in the form of the Sprinter. But with a starting price up around $37,490, it’s a costly option, perhaps one too costly for those businesses just starting out. Mercedes brought out a more affordable option...

  • Production-ready Mercedes-Benz Actros truck fitted with Highway Pilot autonomous driving system
    Production-Ready Mercedes Autonomous Truck Takes To The Autobahn: Video

    Last year Mercedes-Benz showed off a futuristic truck concept fitted with an autonomous system dubbed the Highway Pilot that enabled it to drive itself along stretches of highway, safely and efficiently. And this year the automaker showed an updated version of the concept, one that more closely...

  • Freightliner Inspiration Truck self-driving truck concept
    Daimler’s Futuristic Self-Driving Truck Hits U.S. Roads: Video

    The future is coming up fast, with technologies that were once the domain of science fiction now being developed for commercial sale. Just last week Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] CEO Elon Musk announced new battery technology that has the potential to disrupt the energy industry, and now Daimler has...

  • 2014 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter
    Mercedes To Build Next-Gen Sprinter Van At New South Carolina Plant

    Hot on the heels of last week’s confirmation of Mercedes-Benz’s V-Class-based Metris mid-size van for the U.S. market, the German automaker has now announced that the next generation of its full-size Sprinter van will be built at a new plant located in Charleston, South Carolina. The...

  • 2016 Mercedes-Benz Metris

    The 2016 Mercedes-Benz Metris van goes on sale in the U.S. this fall.

  • Mercedes-Benz Metris Party/DJ Van by RENNtech, 2014 SEMA show
    Mercedes-Benz Previews New Metris Van With Four SEMA Concepts

    Mercedes-Benz’s Sprinter van is about to get a smaller sibling in the form of the new Metris, previewed in concept form at the 2014 SEMA show this week and due to go on sale in the fall of 2015. If you’re thinking the Metris looks a bit familiar that’s because it’s...

  • Mercedes-Benz Future Truck 2025 concept, 2014 Hannover Commercial Vehicle Show
    Meet Mercedes-Benz's Futuristic Autonomous Truck Concept: Video

    While we’ve frequently reported on autonomous cars and the impact of the technology on the car industry, one of the areas we’re likely to see the technology take hold first is in interstate trucking. Mercedes-Benz is well aware of this and at this week’s 2014 Hannover Commercial...

  • Mercedes-Benz Future Truck 2025 autonomous vehicle
    Mercedes Looks Into Autonomous Trucks

    Long-haul truckers may not be too happy to hear it but according to Daimler board member Dr. Wolfgang Bernhard, "The truck of the future is a Mercedes-Benz that drives itself." These are no hollow words either, as the German automaker has completed its first public road test of an...

  • 2014 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter
    2014 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Gets Nip, Tuck, And New 4-Cylinder Heart

    The Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van is the diesel-powered workhorse of many a commercial operation located around the planet. It's a vehicle with serious capability, a truly wonderful and efficient engine, and a level of safety that far exceeds what the rest of the commercial van market employs. Now...

  • Ford Tourneo Custom commercial vehicle
    Ford Tourneo Custom Commercial Van Makes Debut

    We saw it previewed in concept form just a few short weeks ago but here is the Ford Tourneo Custom commercial vehicle that’s about to hit European showrooms later in the year. Aimed at commercial interests as well as sizeable families on a tight budget, the Tourneo Custom is the first step in...

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