GreenPath Logistics Completes Fleet Trial for Hyliion’s Hypertruck ERX – Gas Smarts

Dallas-based GreenPath Logistics (GPL), a privately-owned different gasoline fleet firm, has accomplished the primary managed fleet trial with the Hypertruck ERX powertrain.

Manufactured by Hyliion, the Hypertruck ERX is an electrical powertrain that’s recharged by an onboard pure fuel generator for Class 8 business vans.

GPL deployed an illustration automobile geared up with the Hypertruck ERX powertrain in its operations all through the Dallas-Fort Price Metroplex and throughout Texas to realize real-time suggestions on the operational efficiency of the automobile. The automobile’s deployment offered a variety of supply providers – from U.S. mail deliveries to full-load deliveries.

Earlier this yr, GPL positioned an order for 50 Hypertruck ERX models backed by deposits. Manufacturing is anticipated to start in late 2023. The fleet says the addition of the Hypertruck ERX powertrain is a pure subsequent step as GPL has been efficiently working 30 of Hyliion’s Class 8 hybrid-electric vans in its fleet for greater than a yr.

GPL’s present fleet consists of about 200 medium- and heavy-duty automobiles that function on compressed pure fuel and renewable pure fuel, in addition to the hybrid-electric vans. Throughout the fleet trial with the Hypertruck ERX demonstration automobile, GPL’s finest and most skilled drivers had been provided the chance to check the automobile and supply suggestions to Hyliion, which shall be useful in advancing the powertrain’s path to commercialization.

“Recruiting and retaining business licensed drivers is a problem in our business,” Zaidi mentioned. “Providing our most seasoned drivers the chance to check the newest and biggest applied sciences – just like the Hypertruck ERX – is a vital driver retention instrument for GPL.”

GPL’s Director of Operations Matt Brewer was named a 2022 HDT Rising Chief for overseeing the corporate’s different gasoline truck fleet.