You've Heard of Hybrid Cars--How about Hybrid 18-Wheelers?

This month, a start-up company called

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Hyliion that is looking to hybridize Class 8 trucks around the world raised $21 million in Series A funding.

We first met Hyliion here at Plugged In back in 2015 when the then student-led start-up was awarded the U.S. Department of Energy Clean Energy Entrepreneurship prize at the 15^th annual Rice Business Plan Competition in Houston. They would go on to win the grand prize at the Department of Energy’s National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition in Washington, DC.

Their Co-Founder, Thomas Healy, is a former race car driver who found his love for the track when he was just nine years old. With competitions around the country, he became quickly used to following 18-wheelers full of racing gear down long highways. After his parents gave him a hybrid Honda Civic for his off-track car at the age of sixteen, Healy began to wonder:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/youve-heard-of-hybrid-cars-how-about-hybrid-18-wheelers/