Transportation

Trade War Reaction: Harley-Davidson Says It Is Moving Some of its Production to Europe

Trade War Reaction: Harley-Davidson Says It Is Moving Some of its Production to Europe

To avoid 31% EU tariff that hit Friday

From The Hill

Harley-Davidson’s (NYSE: HOG) announcement that it is moving some production overseas to avoid European tariffs coupled with triple-digit drops on Wall Street are raising pressure on lawmakers to do …

June 26, 2018 - 5:58 am Closing Bell Story‎, International, Transportation
Waymo ‘Early Rider’ Feedback: Autonomous Cars Need a Method to Gently Wake Napping Passengers at their Destinations

Waymo ‘Early Rider’ Feedback: Autonomous Cars Need a Method to Gently Wake Napping Passengers at their Destinations

400 users of Google’s Waymo self-driving cars, ages 9-69, are using the service to go to work, school, shopping, entertainment – and rating it

From KTAR News

PHOENIX — A select group of Arizonans has been shuttling around the Phoenix …

June 22, 2018 - 6:23 am Closing Bell Story‎, Energy News, Transportation
LiDAR Unmanned Vehicle Unveiled in China

LiDAR Unmanned Vehicle Unveiled in China

From Engineering.com

Alibaba Group’s Cainiao Network and RoboSense unveiled G Plus, the world’s first solid-state LiDAR unmanned logistics vehicle.

The G Plus vehicle. (Image courtesy of RoboSense.)

LiDAR instrument fires rapid pulses of laser light at a surface—sometimes …

June 14, 2018 - 6:00 am Closing Bell Story‎, Energy News, Transportation
Freightliner Debuts Two Electrics

Freightliner Debuts Two Electrics

Daimler, Freightliner see ‘next generation of environmentally friendly propulsion systems’ as the industry’s future

From CCJ

Freightliner Trucks on Wednesday tossed its hat into the electric heavy truck ring, debuting two fully electric commercial trucks during the Daimler Trucks Capital …

June 7, 2018 - 5:49 am Closing Bell Story‎, Energy News, Transportation
Shell Reports “Starship” Fuel Efficiency after California-to-Florida Test Run on I-10

Shell Reports “Starship” Fuel Efficiency after California-to-Florida Test Run on I-10

From CCJ

Shell Lubricants and Airflow Truck Company announced the results of the Starship Initiative demonstration run, a six-day, 2,410-mile trip along Interstate 10 from San Diego to Jacksonville, Fla.

While the Starship’s fuel economy averaged 8.94 mpg, it achieved …

June 6, 2018 - 11:21 am Closing Bell Story‎, Energy News, Transportation
25% of World’s New Vehicle Market Requires 10% EVs by 2019

25% of World’s New Vehicle Market Requires 10% EVs by 2019

China’s New Energy Vehicle (NEV) mandate came into effect in April – GM expects to have 10 plug-in models for Chinese market in the next 18 months

By Energy Fuse

China’s ambitious national New Energy Vehicle (NEV) mandate is contributing …

June 5, 2018 - 11:35 am China, Closing Bell Story‎, Transportation
Is Driving Without Drivers the Future of Trucking?

Is Driving Without Drivers the Future of Trucking?

Freight industry battles driver turnover at 90%

From CCJ

With driver turnover rates bumping 90 percent last year, shippers could find only one available truck for every 12 outbound loads — the lowest ratio in 13 years, according to DAT

June 4, 2018 - 10:20 am Closing Bell Story‎, Transportation
Electric Truck Costs: Maintenance Requires Higher Skilled Labor but Fewer Man Hours

Electric Truck Costs: Maintenance Requires Higher Skilled Labor but Fewer Man Hours

When something goes wrong, electric drive trains require highly skilled, highly experienced diagnostic technicians

Torque availability can be dialed up through software tuning

Market penetration will be driven by relationship between speed of battery packs becoming cheaper vs. speed of

May 15, 2018 - 10:59 am Closing Bell Story‎, Energy News, Transportation
Automation and AI Heading into Offshore Vessels

Automation and AI Heading into Offshore Vessels

Delivering more cost savings for the offshore oil and gas industry

From WorkBoat –  Dr. William J. Pike

In recent years, the oil and gas industry has changed rapidly in response to low oil prices.

Among the most significant changes …

May 10, 2018 - 6:44 pm Closing Bell Story‎, Energy News, Transportation
Tesla: Burns Cash, Not Fuel

Tesla: Burns Cash, Not Fuel

Some see risk of running out of cash in 2018

From Bloomberg

Tesla has spent $10,942 since you started reading this story.

The company that Elon Musk built to usher in the electric-car future might not have enough cash to …

May 1, 2018 - 12:33 pm Closing Bell Story‎, Energy News, Transportation
Panama Canal Increases Maximum Beam Allowed

Panama Canal Increases Maximum Beam Allowed

From gCaptain

The Panama Canal Authority has announced it will increase the maximum allowable beam for vessels in the new Neopanamax locks by more than two meters, which will inevitably result in even-bigger ships using the waterway.

The ACP said …

May 1, 2018 - 9:39 am Closing Bell Story‎, Energy News, Transportation
Alberta Oil Industry Could See Bottleneck Relief in Rail Deals

Alberta Oil Industry Could See Bottleneck Relief in Rail Deals

From The Star

CALGARY—Alberta’s beleaguered oil industry may, in the second half of the year, get some relief from its persistent shipping bottlenecks as producers strike deals with rail companies to move more crude.

Oil producers and railroads have room …

April 26, 2018 - 2:02 pm Canada, Closing Bell Story‎, Transportation
Texas Reps Seek Funding for Corpus Christi Ship Channel Improvement Project

Texas Reps Seek Funding for Corpus Christi Ship Channel Improvement Project

From Dredging Today

Project is needed to continue export takeaway growth for U.S. energy

The Port of Corpus Christi’s Ship Channel Improvement Project (CIP) received additional support from bipartisan members of the Texas Congressional Delegation in a recent letter sent …

Panama Canal to Carry Five Times More LNG by 2020

Panama Canal to Carry Five Times More LNG by 2020

From Reuters

Looking at adding more locks

TOKYO (Reuters) – The Panama Canal may carry five times as much liquefied natural gas (LNG) in 2020 as it did last year as production of the fuel expands in the United States …

April 20, 2018 - 3:48 pm Closing Bell Story‎, LNG, Transportation
Over-the-Road Tractor-Trailers with Alternative Propulsion Are Catching on with Buyers

Over-the-Road Tractor-Trailers with Alternative Propulsion Are Catching on with Buyers

Last week, Oslo’s Nel ASA (ticker: NEL) reported it had received a $5.5 million purchase order from Salt Lake City’s Nikola Motor Company.

It sounds like the normal course of business, except when you consider the order from the Utah-based …

Los Angeles City Council Approves $4.9 Billion People Mover

Los Angeles City Council Approves $4.9 Billion People Mover

From the Beverly Hills Courier

(CNS) – The Los Angeles City Council Wednesday approved a $4.9 billion contract for the design and construction of an Automated People Mover system at Los Angeles International Airport that will carry passengers among terminals …

April 11, 2018 - 7:09 am Closing Bell Story‎, Energy News, Transportation
Aluminum Wrestles Steel for Top Spot in Electric Vehicle Market

Aluminum Wrestles Steel for Top Spot in Electric Vehicle Market

From Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) – When electric carmaker Tesla Inc. launched its first mass market model last summer, it sent a shockwave through the aluminum industry by largely shifting to steel and away from the lighter weight metal it had …

March 27, 2018 - 7:32 pm Closing Bell Story‎, Energy News, Transportation
Starsky Robotics Chalks Up First Autonomous Truck Run at Highway Speed with No Human on Board

Starsky Robotics Chalks Up First Autonomous Truck Run at Highway Speed with No Human on Board

Remote monitoring site gets trucks up to highway speed, then “simply monitors after autonomous mode takes over”; long-range testing is next

From CCJ

In September, Starsky Robotics completed the longest end-to-end autonomous trip on record, hauling Hurricane Irma recovery aid, …

March 8, 2018 - 6:36 pm Closing Bell Story‎, Energy News, Transportation
Texas Beware: California’s Bullet Train Cost Surges from $6 Billion to $10.6 Billion for One Section: ‘Worst-case scenario has happened’

Texas Beware: California’s Bullet Train Cost Surges from $6 Billion to $10.6 Billion for One Section: ‘Worst-case scenario has happened’

Report brings up question of financial viability, ability to complete the $64 billion government mega-project that began construction prior to acquiring all the needed land 

For first 31 miles costs soar by 35%; total envisioned route is 800 miles

The …

January 22, 2018 - 11:19 am Closing Bell Story‎, Transportation
Source: Royal Dutch Shell

Five LNG Shipping Stories Make Waves in 2017

From LNG World Shipping

Among the reverberations felt by the LNG industry in 2017, none echoed more loudly than the healthy build-up in US exports; the start of LNG shipments from the Russian Arctic; the rapid emergence of China as …

December 20, 2017 - 12:30 pm Closing Bell Story‎, Energy News, LNG, Transportation
An Advancement for NatGas Powered Automobiles

An Advancement for NatGas Powered Automobiles

Spongelike crystal could make it easier for natural gas–powered cars to store fuel

From Science

As an alternative automotive fuel, natural gas, or methane, doesn’t get a lot of attention. Millions of environmentally friendly, natural gas–powered vehicles cruise the world’s …

December 12, 2017 - 11:00 am Closing Bell Story‎, Energy News, Transportation
Tesla Puts Price Tag for Electric Semi-Truck at $150,000 – $200,000

Tesla Puts Price Tag for Electric Semi-Truck at $150,000 – $200,000

Tesla says pulling an 80,000 pound load, its tractor/trailer will do 0-to-60 in 20 seconds, climb 5% grades at 65 mph; first trucks targeting availability in 2019

Tesla has posted the price point for its coming semi-truck at $150,000 for …

November 30, 2017 - 2:58 pm Closing Bell Story‎, People, Transportation
Why Tesla’s Electric Semi Truck Is the Toughest Thing Musk Has Attempted Yet

Why Tesla’s Electric Semi Truck Is the Toughest Thing Musk Has Attempted Yet

Elon Musk announced the 500-mile electric truck will go into production in 2019

From GreenTech Media

The timing isn’t great for Tesla to be entering a new market segment.

Elon Musk’s high-tech energy and transportation company is already overwhelmed with …

November 22, 2017 - 9:32 am Closing Bell Story‎, Energy News, Transportation
A Closer Look at Tesla’s Super Semi Truck

A Closer Look at Tesla’s Super Semi Truck

‘500 miles of range and more aerodynamic than a supercar’

From The Verge

The Tesla Semi truck is a hulking and menacing hauler, with the presence of Darth Vader lurking from above when cast in the black hue, or more …

November 20, 2017 - 7:48 am Closing Bell Story‎, Energy News, Transportation
More NGLs in the Delaware: Martin Midstream and ONEOK Plan $200 Million Expansion

More NGLs in the Delaware: Martin Midstream and ONEOK Plan $200 Million Expansion

On October 23, 2017 Martin Midstream Partners (ticker: MMLP) and ONEOK (ticker: OKE) announced that the West Texas LPG Pipeline Limited Partnership joint venture (which MMLP owns 20% interest and OKE owns 80%) plans to invest approximately $200 million to …

U.S. Energy Expenditure Level Lowest Since 2004

U.S. Energy Expenditure Level Lowest Since 2004

The EIA reported today that the U.S.’s expenditures for delivered energy totaled $1.127 trillion, or 6.2% of the nation’s GDP, in 2015—the lowest since 2004. The decrease was approximately 20% lower than expenses in 2014, which totaled a little over …

Enjoy Lightning Fast Transportation Across the Texas Oil Patch? Uh, No Thanks: Texas Senators

Enjoy Lightning Fast Transportation Across the Texas Oil Patch? Uh, No Thanks: Texas Senators

From the Austin Business Journal

Texas lawmakers who oppose high-speed rail are trying to use a budget rider to stop the Texas Department of Transportation from assisting a private company that wants to build a high-speed rail line from Houston …

May 23, 2017 - 1:35 pm Closing Bell Story‎, Energy News, Transportation
In this Sept. 4, 2013 photo, One World Trade Center rises above the lower Manhattan skyline in New York. Twelve years after terrorists destroyed the old World Trade Center, the new World Trade Center is becoming a reality, with a museum commemorating the attacks and two office towers where thousands of people will work set to open within the next year. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

New York Banned Fracing but Spends $95 Million for Natural Gas Powered Buses

North American bus manufacturing giant New Flyer Industries Inc. (ticker: NFI), announced on Monday that it contracted with New York City Transit Authority (NYCT) to deliver 110 heavy-duty 60-foot articulated buses—fueled with compressed natural gas (CNG).

The state-funded contract, a …

Texas’s Car Vending Machine Goes Public

Texas’s Car Vending Machine Goes Public

Car company Carvana, operating large automotive vending machines in Texas, raises $225 million in IPO

From MarketWatch 

Yes, Carvana Co. sells real cars out of a vending machine. And it is about to get hundreds of millions of dollars to …

April 28, 2017 - 2:19 pm Closing Bell Story‎, Energy News, Transportation
Is Natural Gas Trucking’s Future, or is CNG Just a Pit Stop on the way to Electric Semi-Trucks?

Is Natural Gas Trucking’s Future, or is CNG Just a Pit Stop on the way to Electric Semi-Trucks?

CNG fueling stations are sprouting up at transit facilities and truck stops, but over-the-road electric trucks loaded with technology, creative leases, battery swapping and free fuel are coming to U.S. on-ramps

Last week, Pennsylvania’s Governor Tom Wolf celebrated the opening …