Deliveries are expected between Q4 this year and Q1 2024. Postal Service and drayage carrier operating at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, executed a purchase order for 50 FCEVs from Nikola dealer Tom’s Truck Center. The company was the subject of one of the expo’s bigger announcements, and its PR machine in Phoenix cranked out releases on two purchase orders - one for the coming Tre fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) and one for the Tre battery-electric vehicle (BEV).ĪJR Trucking, a U.S. We can’t seem to get enough of Nikola because it’s a business on the bubble and so bloody interesting. FreightWaves coverage from the expo is archived here. That’s where the money is.”Ĭlick here to watch the entire interview with Neandross and segments with three more industry leaders from Wednesday’s one-hour Live from Act Expo episode of Truck Tech. “The investment these days by all the OEMs is happening in this electrification move to zero. “There’s a little bit of the right place at the right time in what’s going on in the industry,” he said. Neandross seemed a bit humbled by that assessment. Neandross described the move to Las Vegas in 2024 as “a baby toe in the water” before returning to Anaheim in 2025, when the expo won’t have to share the venue with a nursing convention like it did this year. “I just put the sign out on the front door. It’s just a natural gas truck show.’ And now, of course, the natural gas guys are: ‘Nah, it’s just an electric truck show.’ “The electric crowd back then was: ‘I’m not going to that show. “It’s a little easier to get ’em when you sell 260 natural gas trucks. GNA had written the grant for 260 natural gas trucks from DTNA to be sold to Ryder System Inc.

CEO Greg Swienton as first-year keynote speakers. GNA snagged then Daimler Trucks North America CEO Martin Daum and since-retired Ryder System Inc. We said, ‘Hey, let’s dial this up a little bit,’ and we launched ACT Expo.”įrom 2011 through 2018, the expo was “pretty heavy” on natural gas trucks.

“In 2011, we started to see more national activity. “Prior to ACT Expo, we had run a number of regional shows here in Southern California given the focus and activity around alternative fuels,” Neandross told me. Show organizer Gladstein, Neandross & Associates moved to Anaheim this year, soaking up rooms in hotels along Katella Avenue, where mouse ear-wearing Disneyland-bound guests push strollers toward the park.Īs the attendance climbed above 12,000 on the third day, GNA CEO Erik Neandross explained that the expo is almost a side business for the 105-person consultancy that helps fleets manage compliance with California’s ever-toughening pollution regulations. A lack of hotel space drove expo-goers to stay miles away. A comfortable, easygoing affair in Southern California’s Long Beach Convention Center outgrew its venue in 2022, when 8,000 attendees packed the house. Over its dozen years, the ACT Expo has defied the trajectory of many industry trade shows.

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