Cummins publicizes collaboration on Open Telematics Structure

Trucking information and briefs for Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023:

CALSTART begins work on plan for zero-emission hall

Trade nonprofit group CALSTART introduced Monday the launch of a undertaking to information funding in industrial medium- and heavy-duty (MHD) zero-emission automobile (ZEV) infrastructure alongside I-95, one of many nation’s most closely traveled freight routes. The East Coast Business ZEV Hall undertaking will incorporate enter from fleet operators, the charging and fueling business, utilities and communities to find out essentially the most equitable and environment friendly path ahead to help MHD ZEV deployment.

“The I-95 Hall undertaking, as soon as accomplished, will put into observe the combination of zero-emission automobiles, infrastructure, and addressing climate-change points that has been carried out in different areas of the nation,” mentioned John Boesel, president and CEO of CALSTART. “The profitable implementation of this undertaking will put to relaxation the unfounded considerations of zero-emission opponents by demonstrating that this know-how is each economically possible and a profit to all.”

Funded by a $1.2M grant from the Division of Vitality, the two-year initiative will outline the areas, contributors, and processes that can lead to an unprecedented, superior know-how, zero-emission freight hall up and down the Jap seaboard. The CALSTART-led ZEV Hall undertaking will rework the I-95 thoroughfare from New Jersey to Georgia right into a mannequin of MHD ZEV effectivity, considerably enhancing the well being and well-being of each drivers and the communities in and across the routes, in addition to powering enhancements and enlargement throughout the industries that produce MHD ZEVs and their supporting infrastructure.

Cummins publicizes collaboration on Open Telematics Structure

Cummins on Monday introduced a collaboration with the Eclipse Basis, Microsoft, and different business companions to launch a brand new strategy to develop telematics software program for industrial automobiles.

The Open Telematics Framework is being designed to permit corporations to speed up time to market and scale back prices. It permits every firm to jot down their telematics software as soon as and deploy it to any telematics {hardware} working the Open Telematics Framework. This “write as soon as, run anyplace” strategy will get rid of the advanced customization and reprogramming efforts which have traditionally burdened telematics software builders, the businesses declare, and it additionally incorporates the most recent cybersecurity capabilities.

“We consider there’s a higher means for the business to advance digital applied sciences by eradicating a lot of the pricey and time-consuming growth efforts that the majority corporations expertise when bringing new telematics functions and options to market,” mentioned Sherry Aaholm, vp and chief digital officer at Cummins. “We’re contributing this Open Telematics infrastructure via a non-commercial license as a result of we consider having a typical telematics surroundings will allow the business to develop customer-facing functions extra shortly and simply, bringing the worth to our prospects sooner.”

First launched to this undertaking via its relationship with Microsoft, Cummins will launch the Open Telematics Framework via the Eclipse Basis’s Software program Outlined Car (SDV) Working Group.

Microsoft is engaged on cloud administration capabilities, that when mixed with the in-vehicle capabilities contributed by Cummins, will lead to an open and complete end-to-end answer. The Eclipse Basis’s Software program Outlined Car Working Group features a rising checklist of 38 totally different automotive and know-how corporations.

The Open Telematics Framework is a collaboration between quite a few corporations within the business and never only a Cummins-focused effort. Members is not going to be locked into any proprietary options. The purpose is for corporations to collaborate on an answer to develop capabilities, enhancing the Open Telematics Framework to serve a good broader vary of builders, OEMs, and aftermarket telematics suppliers, together with Saucon Applied sciences and Platform Science.

Ascend Transportation names new president

Ascend Transportation has named Mike Cafarelli as its new president. 

Carafelli most just lately served because the president at The Dart Community and held varied management roles at Swift Transportation, CRST, Central Refrigerated and CR England. He has an MBA in accounting from the College of Phoenix and a bachelor’s of science in sociology from Southern Utah College.

The corporate mentioned Carafelli “brings a repute of excellence and superior outcomes to the position collected over his 30-plus years of expertise main profitable transportation organizations with a concentrate on delivering excellent service, constructing strategic relationships to resolve transportation challenges, and creating nice driving jobs.”