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Autocar launches E-ACTT electric terminal tractor
Autocar, LLC, manufacturer of North America’s oldest brand of specialized severe-duty vocational trucks, introduced an all-electric version of its Autocar ACTT terminal tractor, the E-ACTT. The E-ACTT will be available in late 2021.
The purpose-built E-ACTT terminal tractor makes a great work truck even better by helping meet regulatory mandates for the vocational truck industry to reduce fuel consumption by 24% by model year 2027 and, in California, to transition diesel trucks to zero-emission trucks.
The E-ACTT is the same reliable, heavy duty Autocar ACTT but is all electric. Autocar Truck has been a key innovator in the EV truck market dating back to 1923 when we designed our first two EV trucks, Autocar Truck E1 and E2.
From Scratch: Unexpected, foraged and farmed beer in southern Illinois newsadvance.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newsadvance.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
As Marika Josephson waxes lyrical about small farms, caring for the community, protecting regional agriculture and finding abundance in unlikely places, she sounds more like a philosopher than a beer brewer. In fact, she is both. Josephson, who is a partner in Scratch Brewing Company in Ava, Illinois, also has a Ph.D. in philosophy. It was, in fact, graduate school that brought Josephson and her husband to southern Illinois from New York.
Josephsonâs business partner, Aaron Kleidon, on the other hand, was born and raised here. During high school, Kleidon earned money finding and selling wild ginseng and goldenseal plants, which gave him an early appreciation for what could be harvested from the areaâs forests. Kleidon did slip away for a while, moving to Chicago. He studied photography and, in Chicago, had the opportunity to explore historical photo printing, including nonsilver and older techniques. âI got paid to experiment,â he says. After Chicago, Kleidon mov