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Walmart Inc. is betting big on its service to deliver groceries directly into customers’ refrigerators with an expansion of its InHome delivery option, and will hire 3,000 drivers to support it.

Electric trucks promise many potential rewards for the freight transportation industry. But the experiences of fleets that have begun to deploy these vehicles illustrate an elaborate set of challenges and considerations associated with electrification.

Ford Motor Co. will double factory capacity for its electric F-150 Lightning to 150,000 trucks a year and will start taking orders this week for the model, which goes on sale this spring.

The national average price of diesel nudged down two-tenths of a cent to $3.613 a gallon, according to Energy Information Administration data released Jan. 3.

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Thompson Truck Centers announced that Heniff Transportation Systems reached an agreement to acquire 10 Nikola Tre BEV trucks.

Mack Trucks reported its first fully electric Class 8 vehicle, the LR model, is in serial production at Mack’s Lehigh Valley Operations facility in Macungie, Pa.

Ford Motor Co.’s surging stock has given it a market value greater than rival General Motors Co. for the first time in more than five years.

Mexico plans to end crude oil exports in 2023 as part of a strategy by the nationalist government of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to reach self-sufficiency in the domestic fuels market.

The national average price for a gallon of diesel continued on its downward trend as the end of the year approaches, dropping another 1.1 cents to $3.615 in the Dec. 27 weekly report provided by the Energy Information Administration.