Technology

One of Kenworth Truck Co.’s new models received a government designation certifying its energy efficiency and reduced emissions, the original equipment manufacturer announced Aug. 5.

Amazon.com Inc. will offer cash prizes of as much as $500,000 as well as cars and vacation packages to frontline employees who can prove they have been vaccinated against COVID-19.

Nikola Corp. founder and former chairman Trevor Milton raised about $77 million selling shares in the electric truck manufacturer, days after pleading not guilty to charges he misled investors to hype the stock.

Trevor Milton has more in common with Elon Musk than starting a prominent electric vehicle company named after inventor Nikola Tesla. He’s now hired the same lawyers to defend him.

The Environmental Protection Agency on Aug. 5 announced plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful air pollutants from heavy-duty trucks in a series of major rulemakings over the next three years.

Transport Topics has launched a digital event series that spotlights its supplemental publications, and featured its new Calibrate equipment-focused magazine and redesigned iTECH technology publication in its debut episodes.

Qualcomm Inc. offered to buy automotive technology company Veoneer Inc. for $4.6 billion, muscling in on a bid Magna International Inc. made for the supplier last month.

Another quarter passed, and Uber Technologies Inc. is a little further from its goal of posting an adjusted profit by the end of the year.

Commercial vehicle supplier CVG reported higher second-quarter net income and record quarterly revenue as it continued to diversify its customer base and emphasize secular growth.

Continental AG, Europe’s second-biggest supplier of car parts, warned the global bottleneck in chip supply and raw material cost inflation will drag on the auto industry through the rest of the year.