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And there aren’t even any downsides. The charging and the range? Truckers have mandatory rest breaks anyway and the range and charge speed coincide quite well.
No diesel power? Have you seen a 40-ton truck speed up a hill that a diesel one would be crawling up with 20kmh - the electric one does it at the legal speed limit while being virtually silent.
You barely actually use your brakes, meaning the only significant maintenance is the tires.
And all that while going net-zero for co2 within the first quarter of a year.
Add-on: a bunch of commodities derived from the fact that you have a bunch of electricity you can use for whatever you like.
There are one (big, depending on how you look at it) downside, payload, the maximum gcwr is 48 or 60 tons depending on setup. And electric trucks are heavier than their diesel counterparts so the payload goes down. But as longhaul trucks usually aren’t fully loaded weightwise it might not matter. But a big downside to the heavier baseweight is the axleweight which also becomes a problem in this video. But electric trucks are still the way forward, as he also shows in this video, they are a perfect fit for the current rules on drive/rest time.
And there aren’t even any downsides. The charging and the range? Truckers have mandatory rest breaks anyway and the range and charge speed coincide quite well.
No diesel power? Have you seen a 40-ton truck speed up a hill that a diesel one would be crawling up with 20kmh - the electric one does it at the legal speed limit while being virtually silent.
You barely actually use your brakes, meaning the only significant maintenance is the tires.
And all that while going net-zero for co2 within the first quarter of a year. Add-on: a bunch of commodities derived from the fact that you have a bunch of electricity you can use for whatever you like.
There are one (big, depending on how you look at it) downside, payload, the maximum gcwr is 48 or 60 tons depending on setup. And electric trucks are heavier than their diesel counterparts so the payload goes down. But as longhaul trucks usually aren’t fully loaded weightwise it might not matter. But a big downside to the heavier baseweight is the axleweight which also becomes a problem in this video. But electric trucks are still the way forward, as he also shows in this video, they are a perfect fit for the current rules on drive/rest time.