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It may be a ways off replacing long haul routes, but for short routes in ubran environments the dividends from reduced emissions seem great. I imagine in Europ
by LMYahooTFY 3y ago
It may be a ways off replacing long haul routes, but for short routes in ubran environments the dividends from reduced emissions seem great.
I imagine in Europe there will be more use cases. In the US 150 mile range (with basically no traffic) fully loaded seems virtually useless. (Using their range calculator with 100% load, 50% load is a marginal range increase, and what about uphill?)
- AnotherGoodName 3y agoThere's no way to link (the website is terrible and navigation doesn't update the URL) but i think this was pointing out that there's now a 500km+ (310mile) range truck. That's what the 600 refers to, 600kwh. The previous truck had 180kwh. Click "Find out more" after scrolling to "EACTROS LONGHAUL"
- jacquesm 3y agoI wonder how that works in territory that isn't flat, to what degree can energy that is put in during climbs be recovered during descent?
- r00fus 3y agoMy EV gets a huge chunk back and it has amazing torque on climbs… not sure how this compares for as large a vehicle as a fully loaded truck though.
- w-m 3y agoIn Germany, trucks are going at 89 km/h (officiall 80 km/h) and the driver has to take a mandatory break, which is electronically tracked, every 4.5 hours. They have to take a 45 minute break, and the truck charges from 20 to 80 % in 30 minutes. So in theory, the 500 km range is sufficient, at least when it's moderately warm out. In practice, there's already a shortage of simple parking space for trucks on break along motorways. It'll be quite difficult to quickly build out a network of chargers that supply > 1 MW per truck, for many trucks at a time, all over the place.