SuperTruck 3
Funds heavy-duty vehicle demonstrations for electric and fuel-cell solutions in transport innovation.
SuperTruck 3 sits under the DOE Transportation Technologies Office and funds Class 4 to 8 medium- and heavy-duty truck demonstration in the United States. The program is a five-year cooperative agreement effort with a total pool of $127M, subject to appropriations, and it is built around electric and fuel-cell truck systems rather than a general mobility portfolio. The awards are already made, so the program is in execution rather than in an open call. The 2022 cohort went to PACCAR, Daimler Trucks North America, Ford, Volvo Group North America, and General Motors. The largest award listed is PACCAR at $32,971,041, with the other awards in the mid-tens of millions. A 1:1 federal-to-recipient match is required, which keeps the program squarely in the cost-shared demonstration lane. The eligible set was limited to US for-profit manufacturers, while nonprofits, universities, research organizations, and individuals were excluded. That makes SuperTruck 3 useful as a signal of the technical bar for heavy-duty truck demonstration work: the route favors established manufacturers that can deliver trucks, charging or fueling hardware, durability testing, and real-world deployment at scale.
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