Inside the Race to Electrify Semitrailers for Long-Haul Freight

A semitrailer that helps propel itself entered commercial road testing in late May, when a power-train kit developed by Nivalis Energy Europe , headquartered in Luxembourg with engineering operations in Germany, was fitted to a trailer supplied by the Amsterdam-based TIP Group . The self-powered trailer was handed over to the German transport operator Sommer for use in its working fleet. The…