Cummins reveals all-electric truck ahead of Tesla

Two months after chairman and CEO Tom Linebarger detailed Cummins' plans to transition from a diesel engine maker to a “power technology” provider (read: articles.sae.org/15489/), the company is backing up his talk with tangible technology in the form of a fully electric Class 7 demonstration truck. Cummins unveiled the fully operational AEOS on August 29 at its Columbus, IN, technical center, taking the trucking industry by surprise.

The reveal came just weeks before the wraps were expected to come off Tesla's highly anticipated all-electric tractor-trailer. Elon Musk tweeted this past spring that the Tesla Semi truck unveil would take place this September, but in a Sept. 13 tweet he revised the date to the end of October.