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Researchers have developed a promising yet surprisingly simple modification to diesel engines that could hold the key to reducing the complexity, maintenance, and size and weight of emission aftertreatment systems.

The trucking industry collectively moved 11.84 billion tons of freight in 2019, according to American Trucking Associations’ annual data compendium — ATA American Trucking Trends 2020 — which was released July 13. That figure is a 3% year-over-year increase from 2018’s 11.49 tons of freight.

House Democrats say Congress should increase funding for programs at EPA and the Department of Energy to reduce emissions from equipment at ports.

Hyliion Inc.’s Class 8 long-range electric powertrain underscores the transition period of multiple alternative powertrains is at hand. And the powertrain, whose batteries are charged by an undersized natural gas engine, could prove to be an important step toward carbon-free over-the-road transportation, experts said.

Jacobs Vehicle Systems’ cylinder deactivation technology delivered a “host of performance-enhancing benefits” in a recent independent validation, the company announced, including raising exhaust temperature and improving fuel consumption.

Industry feedback aimed at a report on regional trucking called for additional attention to the complexity of managing aerodynamic equipment in that operational environment, and generated new assumptions on the length of haul.

Thermo King announced the launch of the Advancer series, which it called “a re-imagining” of the trailer refrigeration unit.

Several West Coast electric utilities proposed a phased-in approach to electrifying Interstate 5 in an effort to reduce commercial vehicle emissions along the major freight corridor.

Zero-emission truck maker Nikola Corp., which recently jumped to a publicly traded company from its startup perch, has begun building prototypes of its heavy-duty battery-electric model in Germany and is set for groundbreaking on a plant in the United States this summer.

Many investors, including those using financial data terminals such as Bloomberg’s, were seeing something very different — that Tesla still had to gain more than $25 billion in market value to surpass Toyota.