Cog wrote:How are those driver-less mini-vans going to deliver to the customer? Going to drop the package off into the street? The final step of the delivery process is to have a human get it out of the truck and bring it up to the porch or into a business.
efarmer wrote:A gallon of gasoline is about 36 Kilowatt Hours of power and a gallon of diesel about 40kwh.
Multiply this by the size of a car or truck tank. The biggest Tesla available has 53kwh of battery,
or about as much as two gallons of gasoline. The fossil fuel energy is inherent, the battery energy is stored from a real energy source, and at under unity of course. 18 wheelers hold 125 to 300 gallons
of fuel. On the optimistic side you only need a battery that can hold 5000 to 12000 Kwh to do this
task.
ELECTRIC CLASS 8 TRUCK PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONThis truck, and the first two of the seven pre-commercial trucks being deployed, have demonstrated performance equal to or superior to diesel trucks in many respects, including faster acceleration, the capacity to pull loads of up to 80,000 lb., and top operating speeds of greater than 65 miles per hour. Equipped with extra-large battery subsystems weighing nearly 6,000 lb., these trucks can haul heavy loads for up to 100 miles on a single battery charge with unprecedented energy efficiency for vehicles of this class.
The five battery enclosures in the Class 8 ElecTruck design provide a total of approximately 215 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of total energy storage.
$16 million in New Orders for TransPower Trucks and TractorsTransPower conducted a demonstration of four fully functional battery-electric Class 8 trucks, just hours after the California Energy Commission (CEC) announced its award of nearly $9 million to TransPower for new electric truck and tractor demonstration projects throughout the state of California.
“We are especially proud of the fact that we drove all four of these trucks from the heart of San Diego County 110 miles to the Los Angeles-Long Beach port region,” said Mike Simon, President & CEO of TransPower. “These four trucks have made more than ten intercity trips of about 80 to 120 miles over the past year and we believe our battery-electric vehicles are the only proven, fully operational zero emission trucks in the world capable of hauling loads up to the Class 8 truck limit of 80,000 pounds.”
TransPower’s success in deploying electric trucks and tractors that operate reliably under real-world conditions was likely a factor in the CEC’s announcement that TransPower will receive funding for three new truck and tractor demonstration projects. These new projects, expected to begin by this summer and to result in new vehicle deployments by next year, include:
* A collaboration with four operators of yard tractor fleets – IKEA, Harris Ranch, Grimmway Farms, and Devine Intermodal – to deploy five battery-electric yard tractors in California’s Central Valley and Sacramento. Five new tractors will be distributed among these fleets, augmenting five similar tractors TransPower built in 2014, which are currently being operated by fleet operators such as IKEA, Dole Fresh Fruits, and SA Recycling. TransPower’s proposal for the new tractor demonstration was the highest ranked proposal of 33 proposals received by the CEC for funding under its “Medium- and Heavy-Duty Advanced Vehicle Technology Demonstration” program.
* A project to demonstrate two additional electric tractors with Dole at the Port of San Diego, along with electric drayage trucks to be operated at the Port of San Diego by BAE Systems and Terminalift. This project will also involve the upgrade of a large battery-operated “reach stacker” vehicle which TransPower built with funding from Terminalift in 2014. This proposal was ranked third among the 33 proposals reviewed by the CEC.
* A project to install TransPower’s battery-electric truck system into a demonstration fleet of three refuse trucks. Two of these trucks will be operated by the County of Sacramento and the third will be operated by a major waste hauling firm to be named later. This proposal was ranked fourth among the 33 funding requests received by the CEC.
Mercedes-Benz: First fully electric truckDaimler Trucks is presenting the Mercedes-Benz Urban eTruck in Stuttgart, as the first fully electric truck with an admissible total weight of up to 26 tonnes. The power is supplied by a battery pack consisting of three lithium-ion battery modules. This results in a range of up to 200 km.
KaiserJeep wrote:I'm not kidding about this. Trump needs to add $1 per gallon tax to each gallon sold, and bump that $1 for each year he is in office, and keep the current EV incentives in place while doing so. We HAVE the technology we need to replace 95% of the consumer vehicles, and we need to build the charging infrastructure.
If he has real cajones, he should ban new ICE vehicles in say 10 years. If he wants to make an exception such as say a $25,000 "gas guzzler" tax for a new ICE vehicle, I'll listen to the argument, at least. Nor would I add the gas guzzler tax to a vehicle that burns alcohols, LPG, CNG, biodiesel, etc - anything but petroleum derived gasoline and diesel fuels.
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