Jo Borrás

Electric truck maker Harbinger has been racking up wins in recent months, and after scoring a $300 million order from international shipping giant FedEx and a defense contract with the US military, the company has drummed up another $240 million in Series D funding.

Electric truck brand Workhorse is bringing its W56 Class 5 and 6 electric trucks to Canada thanks to a new agreement with a Canadian dealer group and fleet management provider offering truck and trailer sales, parts, repair, and 24/7 roadside assistance and towing services across the Northern nation.

Amazon isn’t just electrifying its American delivery operations. The virtual big box stores that Bezos built understands the benefits of EVs as well as anyone, and they’re working hard to deploy electric vehicles everywhere they can. And now, that global push is extending to India.

It takes some seriously heavy equipment to make an ultra-class mining truck look little, but that’s exactly what German equipment giant Liebherr does best, and its newest, 250-tonne production excavator keeps that tradition alive – only this time, it’s electric.

Chinese equipment brand Zoomlion showed up to this week’s China International Agricultural Machinery Exhibition with a new ultra-high-horsepower hybrid tractor that sets a new benchmark, offering more than 1,600 hp while cutting back on both fuel and fumes.

Australian conversion specialists Janus Electric have been celebrating a growing slate of orders for their Class 8 electric truck conversions, which ditch diesel in favor of advanced battery-swap electric power – but exactly how they’d deliver all those trucks was still a question. Now, we have an answer: Electrovaya will supply the batteries.

Like many equipment brands, German forklift maker Jungheinrich has been struggling to crack the Asian industrial markets – but the company is set to change all that with the launch of a new line of 1.6- to 3-ton class electric forklifts designed specifically to navigate the region’s tight warehouses and factories.

New Zealand’s Foodstuffs North Island Limited has given its latest electric semi truck an electrifying new identity, courtesy of a second-grade student at a local elementary school.

A new car affordability crisis and punishing gas prices are driving an unprecedented number of used car buyers to consider going electric, and that increased demand without a corresponding increase in supply means these used EVs are flying off dealer lots.

For the first time, electric equipment assets are being put to work in the National Wildlife Refuge System, where a battery-powered, zero-emission ECR25 Electric compact excavator and L25 Electric compact wheel loader made by Volvo CE are making the wild more accessible to everyone.

After completing the first half of Amazon’s Bellefield complex last summer, Maximo engineers have put their helpful robot friend into high gear, with the latest version 3.0 robot-equipped construction crews installing as many as 24 solar panel modules per hour, per person. And now, the company is reporting that Maximo has completed its 300,000th construction task. (!)

Wondering how long your new electric car might last? This 2019 Chevrolet Bolt EV is proving that electric vehicles can rack up miles with the best of them – and its owner is committed to taking it past the half million mile mark.

Legendary truck brand Peterbilt is lowering procurement barriers for state and municipal fleets looking to electrify their assets by adding its growing lineup of medium- and heavy-duty battery electric trucks to its cooperative purchasing Agreement with Sourcewell.

With national diesel prices inching towards $7/gallon and Tesla’s $290,000 Semi trucks finally making their way to paying customers, it’s worth revisiting how Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Bill Act (OBBA) helped beef up the Section 179 deduction, and look again at how it could help your fleet ditch diesel sooner rather than later.

Say what you will about America’s police forces, but they are loyal – often to each other, and always to their preferred brand of pursuit vehicle. And if the thin blue line of Chevy faithful won’t embrace the 750 hp electric Silverado because it’s powered by batteries, that can really only be called a win for the scofflaws they’re pursuing.

Forget about the 600+ hp hybrid-powered Polestar 1 supercoupe; the car that established Polestar as a standalone brand was the 2. As the brand pulls out of the US and shifts its focus to the rest of the world, it’s time to look back at the EV that helped define Polestar, along with a look around at some of the best EV deals of all time.

They day you get to book an all-electric flight may be closer than you think if Dutch startup Elysian Aircraft gets its way. Their new E9X commercial airliner promises flights that are a whole lot quieter, and at prices that are whole lot less dependent on dumb oil wars.

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) board of directors voted unanimously Thursday to approve the purchase of a new generation of battery-powered public transit trains – and they can’t arrive soon enough.

The new XCMG SDA411 concept terminal truck is fully electric, has no cabin, and an L4 autonomous tech stack that’s purpose-built for unmanned logistics – and, if XCMG get their way, it looks like the future of drayage truck operations.

The first regular production solar-powered electric trailer refrigeration unit (TRU) in Australia has hit the road with a real customer. Family-owned transport giant Wickham Freight Lines took delivery of the revolutionary reefer just this week.

Despite decades of market dominance, it seems like the days of loud, finicky, gas-powered mowers may finally be behind us; and I say that because – for the second year in a row! – the highest-rated lawnmowers on Amazon won’t burn a drop of gas.

Volkswagen is offering its Chinese-market Jetta M6 electric sedan with nearly 290 miles of CLTC-rated range for less than $12,000 (USD), and if that’s not what “der people’s wagen” should be all about, I don’t know what is.

The dumb oil war in Iran is driving up the cost of just about everything, including new cars. That’s giving Chinese EVs a huge advantage over Western “legacy” car brands already lagging in tech and struggling with affordability – and those legacy brands about to have a whole new to them problem on their hands: USED Chinese EVs.

EGO Power’s commercial group showed up at this week’s EQUIP Expo with a trio of new zero-turn riding mowers, a commercial-grade 780 CFM leaf blower, and a heavy-duty 16.5″ trimmer built for the 56V PGX battery system. And, with incentive programs designed to help landscapers make the switch to electric popping up all over, the timing couldn’t be better.