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Depends on how high “high tonnage” is. Kennworth is offering a 680hp full-electric with a 3 hour range. Volvo offers an electric VNR with identical performance
by freeone3000 3y ago
Depends on how high “high tonnage” is. Kennworth is offering a 680hp full-electric with a 3 hour range. Volvo offers an electric VNR with identical performance to its standard VNR. Freightliner sells the eCascadia, matching its regular Cascadia.
- hedora 3y agoThose are semi-trucks. You'd need to attach a compatible dump trailer to them. (Those might exist, but I don't think I've ever seen one).
- peteradio 3y agoThey exist, its how animal manures are applied to fields. Likely this would be shipped via trains long distance and last mile with semi.
- Karrot_Kream 3y agoThese vehicles would need to be charged on fully renewables or non emitting sources (like hydro) to offset this. Even if Natgas or Gas plants are much more efficient than engines, the calculation still needs to account for amortized emissions.
- freeone3000 3y agoYes? Obviously yes? Idk why everyone is assuming we’re going to keep dragging our feet on something that, at this point, is merely a matter of buying a few batteries and setting up a few more solar panels. Provinces have done it; heck, entire countries have done it. Switch to renewables already.
- Karrot_Kream 3y agoBecause we're still not there yet. In the US, California's grid hits near-100% solar only around midday for an hour and then at night becomes mostly natgas, and can't handle peak demand on hotter days. If you're talking about the load of adding BEV trucks then that's adding a whole different dimension to the equation. I'd like to be optimistic about these things but we're far from it in the US.