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What I Want from an Electric Pickup
If an automaker can make an electric truck like the one I’m laying out here, I’m all in.
Mobility Solutions for Fleets
Mobility Solutions for Fleets
It’s an exciting time to own a fleet. But it isn’t getting any easier to operate one, as connected vehicles, electrification, shared mobility, autonomous technology, and smart cities converge with traditional fleet processes. Chris Brown’s Auto Focus blog is designed to help fleet operators navigate the increasingly dizzying pace of change, improve fleet efficiencies today, and form their strategies for the future.
If an automaker can make an electric truck like the one I’m laying out here, I’m all in.
Remember compliance cars? California Air Resources Board (CARB) proposed Advanced Clean Truck rule feels like its 2012 rule dictating zero-emission passenger cars. Only this time, fleets are involved.
In this analysis of recent mobility news, we analyze the market for commercial EV leases, whether subscriptions can work for commercial fleets, and whether we’re ready for completely driverless autonomous vehicle testing. By the way, what is eFaas?
Amazon placed an order for a cargo van that doesn’t exist yet; you can now call your Tesla across the parking lot, and gas stations are becoming the filling stations of (back to) the future. Just another week in this new world of transportation.
In this new era of vehicles taking over human tasks, fleet operators need to adjust driver education, training, and policies to maximize the effectiveness of advanced driver assistance systems.
Forget autonomous trucking, for now, delivery drones and package-carrying robots will be a reality much sooner. To what extent will they take away traditional delivery driving jobs?
In this analysis of recent mobility news, we apply the “efficiencies, cost, savings, fewer tech hurdles” rule to see which new mobility models might be deployed sooner than we think.
Yes, an all-electric pickup can tow 1.25 million pounds, but to deliver one with verifiable specs, at scale, and at a reasonable price point is a different equation entirely.
In Josh Switkes’ view, it's way too premature to write truck platooning off as a dead end technology. And HDT Senior Editor Jack Roberts agrees with that point.
From a geeky industry insider standpoint, the fact that Lyft is renting fleet to consumers on a daily rate is a big deal. But questions abound regarding the business model and profitability.
