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Janus Electric Update — Talk to the Converted!
CleanTechnica recently scored an exclusive interview with Ben Hutt, the CEO of Janus Electric. This comes in the context of mainstream media interest in the electrification of the heavy truck industry, trials by Windrose technology and Centurion, and provocative comments from Andrew Forrest of Fortescue Metals, etc. Over the phone … [continued]
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China’s Electric Concrete Mixer Boom Is A Warning To Slow Heavy Truck Markets
Battery-electric concrete mixers are becoming one of heavy transport’s more interesting electrification stories, not because they are glamorous, but because they are difficult-looking vehicles that are proving easier to electrify than many expected. In China, they have moved from niche to major new-sales category in five years. Outside China, they … [continued]
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Top Selling Electric Vehicles in the World — March 2026
Tesla wins gold and silver in a market running at different speeds. BEVs vs. PHEVs Plugin vehicle registrations were up 5% year over year (YoY) in March, ending the month at around 1.7 million units. Interestingly, BEVs (+12% YoY) and PHEVs (-8% YoY) behaved very differently, with pure electrics back … [continued]
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Electric Fire Trucks Are Spreading, But They Lag Buses, Garbage Trucks, & Drayage Fleets
Vancouver has an electric fire truck. I’ve even seen it. That still sounds like a line from a pilot project brochure, but the truck is real, it is in service, and it is part of the city’s municipal fleet. I had also been looking at electric garbage trucks recently, another … [continued]
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Electric Garbage Trucks Are The Heavy-Duty EV Story Hiding In Plain Sight
The electric garbage truck is not the poster child for vehicle electrification. It does not have the consumer glamour of an electric pickup, the political visibility of an electric bus, or the freight-sector drama of battery-electric and hydrogen tractor-trailers fighting for long-haul mindshare (batteries for the win, as usual). It … [continued]
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