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an electric semi-truck has been announced an trucker it's not from Tesla in fact you may not have ever even heard of this company but they've been around for almost 100 years Cummins a company known more for its diesel commercial truck engines and light duty pickup trucks unveiled an urban semi truck that's fully electric it's called a os-- it weighs 18,000 pounds but it can carry around 44,000 pounds of payload it also uses a 140 kilowatt hour battery and only takes an hour to charge at the right charging stations that only comes out to about a hundred miles of range though so for now it's a local delivery solution Cummins says it won't build the trucks itself only that it plans to supply the battery and driveline system to manufacturers looking to add electric commercial haulers to their fleets production could begin as early as 2019 the announcement even beat Tesla to the punch which also plans to make its own electric semi unveiling sometime in September but reports say Tesla's competing truck has two to three times the range of Cummins AOS the company says it also plans to offer a hybrid extended range model in the future that uses a diesel engine like a generator think the Chevy Volt but really really big for more information on electric vehicles head over to cnet.com and roadshow I'm ashley Esqueda vegan humans