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

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

[bert]

Obama made them do it.

(they failed to get it done in time to give him credit)

A better new design would be for bumper to bumper natural gas engine and tankage.

[a fool in paradise]

Trucker orgy?

[backwoods-engineer]

So stupid. A coal-powered truck. Should have left the diesel in there, run it at a constant RPM driving a generator, and used electric motors to drive the wheels. Like a train locomotive.

[Red Badger]

Yes, the stick has two positions:

VA and NO VA....................

[Lockbox]

Not supposed to let out the Secret.....

[Red Badger]

TheLeft Wants ALL IC Engines DEAD and GONE by 2050..........................

[boycott]

ecall that Tesla is also on the verge of rolling out its own electric semi — in the wake of the Cummins’ unveil, there’s been a fair amount of buzz about how the Indiana-based powertrain company was quicker on the draw than the Silicon Valley outfit.

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And Tesla received $billions of our tax dollars. Tesla should be cut offf and required to repay taxpayers for every dime of its profits.

[null and void]

Truck orgy porn? Shame on you!

[Wonder Warthog]

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

More likely replacement is LNG. Ya can refill an LNG tank a lot quicker than you can recharge a battery pack.

[Beagle8U]

“Extra batteries could push that to 300 miles, but it’s clearly not ready for transcontinental runs — stop-and-go city hauling is what this thing is designed for.”

A semi with only 100 mi range is borderline worthless.

[bigbob]

All energy is solar, just converted and stored in different forms.

[null and void]

That’s a stellar comment!

[momincombatboots]

Europe is. Banning combustion engines in the future, but they have more nuclear plants than we do. Hurricane Irma revealed the true shortcomings of plug in cars. Hybrids, would work there, but not plug ins.

[digger48]

A county I do contract work for was replacing all county vehicles (except dump trucks) with CNG. The survey crews f550 had a range of a whopping 80 miles. Not too practical in a county 30 miles wide. Spent many hours returning to home fueling station.

After just 2 years they have dumped that idea

[Jeff Chandler]

100 miles isn’t enough, not even for local P&D.

[McGavin999]

We’ll see you have to have three of them to replace one diesel. And the battery disposal is going to be a nightmare, and the cost of replacing them will bankrupt a company. But they are going to stop the two tenths of one degree global warming.

[Rinnwald]

...nuclear powered.

Just like this sucker...

[kosciusko51]

Interesting idea, but how are you going to keep LNG cold (-260 °F) in the vehicle, and what do you do with the boil-off when it is not in use?

[George from New England]

Anybody reading this thread, know where I can in short time get a diesel generator part ?

GAVR-8A Auto Voltage Regulator for a 24kw genset

All ebay and amazon list are China and Hong Kong sources. And no place to pick up a phone and call for quick shipping.

Signed, dark and down in Florida.

[CommerceComet]

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

Nor do the ecology people want to talk about how dirty it is to make batteries.