Nebraska’s attorney general is fighting back against what he calls a “three-pronged attack” from truck manufacturers, California regulators and the Biden administration to force out diesel-powered engines in favor of electric trucks.
Attorney General Mike Hilgers this week filed a lawsuit against four of the nation’s largest heavy-duty truck companies, alleging they colluded in an “industry-wide conspiracy” with California environmental regulators to phase out medium and heavy-duty trucks that run on liquid fuel.
The lawsuit filed in state court names Daimler; Navistar International, a property of Volkswagen’s commercial truck division, Traton; Paccar; Volvo Group North America; and an industry trade group, the Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association, as defendants.
Hilgers told Fox Business these four companies have openly admitted to “colluding in a classic antitrust way.”
He alleges their goal is “to restrict — ultimately in its …