Last November, Elon Musk shook the heavy-duty vehicle market with plans to produce an all-electric semi-truck, taking about 400 orders from big haulers like UPS, PepsiCo, Sysco and Anheuser-Busch.
California is providing incentives worth $398 million to support purchases of clean trucks and buses in the state, prompting Tesla rival companies such as BYD, to build and ship its own electric Class-8 trucks to haul heavy cargo offloaded at ports.
Daimler’s Fuso eCanter electric delivery vans are being shipped to global customers, and last October unveiled a concept Class-8 truck that goes over 200 miles per charge, the E-Fuso Vision One. That truck will compete directly with the Tesla Semi when it arrives in two to three years.
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