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I don't follow the industry, so would appreciate some background. 1. Are these in actual use anywhere? All of their advertised models? 2. Are there any other
by sam_goody 4y ago
I don't follow the industry, so would appreciate some background.
1. Are these in actual use anywhere? All of their advertised models?
2. Are there any other US manufacturers of electric trucks (Aside from Tesla, which will start production someday)? How about non US?
3. I have always heard that US safety standards are very expensive to meet (things like crash testing every X cars), and that that keeps out a lot of European brands. Does that work the same for trucks?
EDIT: In their blog they refer to 15 trucks of one model being delivered to FedEx. Still not sure if that mean anything other than 15 of one model have been produced.
- mgbmtl 4y agoFor (2), in Canada/Quebec, Lion Electric produces electric buses and urban trucks: https://thelionelectric.com/en https://thelionelectric.com/en I don't follow closely, but they recently opened an assembly plant in Illinois. Not trucks, but Montreal public transit (STM) has fully electric buses. A mix of NovaBus (Volvo) and New Flyer. They've been testing them for a few years and expanding.
- Valgrim 4y agoNice, i've seen one of those school buses drop kids near my home the other day. The blue bumper is quite distinctive. The suspension was a bit noisy. Not sure if it's due to the weight of the batteries or the crappy Montreal streets.
- zardo 4y agoOn 2, I don't think there are any commercial truck manufacturers in the US that don't offer electric models.