Big (green) rig: This Cummins electric tractor trailer could be the future of short-haul trucking

Autoweek.com ^ | August 31, 2017 | Graham Kozak

[Red Badger]

Diesel to be replaced?...............

[ptsal]

Where are the mounting brackets for the CB?

[Red Badger]

At Radio Shack.....................

[mewzilla]

Not at the price per KWH I pay....

[Bryanw92]

So, it’s good for one trip from one side of Jacksonville FL to the other and back. Then, you have a very expensive business asset on the charger for hours. They need to build it like a forklift with changeable batteries to be commercially viable.

[Alberta's Child]

Wouldn’t CNG be a more economical source of power for a truck like this?

[Bubba_Leroy]

Coal and nuclear powered, because our electric grid is not powered by rainbows and unicorn farts.

[Bryanw92]

>>Wouldn’t CNG be a more economical source of power for a truck like this?

Of course it would. Economical and clean. But, the Left wants us in short range golf carts so they can jet around the world in Gulfstreams.

[mewzilla]

From July, interesting link...

“Disruptive” electric tractors might end up hauling heavy trucks in the opposite direction

[V_TWIN]

Yep. a lot of people don’t know how to follow that extension cord to the origination point do they?

[V_TWIN]

“The Aeos, ready to haul”

for a minute

[smokingfrog]

Seems kind of big for a city truck.

[fella]

Big rig manufacturers have been experimenting with alternative power for decades. They just don’t sell without a government mandate like the western port authorities natural gas regulations.

[entropy12]

Electric power in US comes from:
(1) Coal burning
(2) Oil burning
(3) Nat gas burning
(4) Nuclear
(5) Wind
(6) Solar
First 3 create CO2, the 4th creates nuclear waste lasting decades. 5th has killed more technicians than other options from falling off turbine towers. 6th is useless during nights which are long in winter further north you go.

[ReformedBeckite]

Real Semi's and tow trucks will make a fortune hauling this electric rigs back to their charging bases. Haha LOL, It will be something like this.

[DCBryan1]

Of course it would. Economical and clean. But, the Left wants us in short range golf carts so they can jet around the world in Gulfstreams.

Eggsactly! Ask those Floridians with Volts, Leafs, Tesla, etc. just how agonizingly terrible bugging out in them turned out for them. Most barely made it mid way through the state as they sat in traffic.....draining their range down.

[entropy12]

And finally, nobody pushing EV’s wants to talk about how expensive batteries are to replace.

[Red Badger]

Haulin’ Aeoss!........................

[PGR88]

Are the instructions in Spanish?