Electric Big Rig Ping!.................
Not enough range unless you are using it in a place like Singapore or Hong Kong.
The advances in electric are promising, but it concerns me that electric is viewed as the complete answer.
What about mining?
What about electric generation?
What about charging times?
What about charging station availability?
What about battery disposal?
It’s as if none of these issues matter.
Fully loaded truck vs empty truck?
Price tag? Wherethehell is the price tag? Oh and who pays the electric bill?
275 miles?
Great, what do I do in the afternoon? Charge it?
Local freight only for these.
I’m all for EV‘s.
We are in the beginning stages of the tech.
Up to 275 miles means 220 miles.
I for one will never miss having to go to an auto repair shop again for transmissions mufflers valves timing chains piston rings, etc,
Id like to see how far this woke truck goes fully loaded in the mountains.
so for every 4h15m you drive, you need to stop and charge for 90m - yea, I am sure long-haul truckers will be lining up for that.
I will never own or use an electric vehicle in the 30 years of life I have left to live. And I smirk at the lemmings I pass on the highways that have bought them.
I find the Hyliion ERX power plant to be the most interesting proposal for electric Class 8 trucks.
Actually it’s more a type of hybrid- it has an onboard generator powered by natural gas so it’s independent of the grid. Range is 1200 miles and then you refill the natgas tank so it’s quicker than charging a pure BEV.
https://www.hyliion.com/erx-page/
Will the free market sort these approaches out or will it be mandated by the fedgov?
I see the current administration driving up the price of petroleum fuels and subsidizing electrics. But a Trump 2025 could turn the whole thing around.
It’s gotta be hard to be a product planner in the vehicle industry.
Taking all of the fun out of life. Last rig I owned had a hot rodded Cat putting out over 600hp at the wheels, with a 15 speed and dual everything. Fun to drive and could rip and snort.
I’m getting too old to care.
The thing uses as much electricity in three charges as my house does in a heavy use month. Does that offer any perspective about how much new power generation we would need for conversion?
A rough number might start with the average of 45,000 miles per truck per year or 140,000,000,000 miles per year for the fleet as stated by the HDS Truck Driving Institute whoever they are.
45,000 miles / 250 miles per charge / 3 charges equal the higher end of my household power consumption per month = 60 house months per year
So you could operate five houses similar to mine in the highest demand month for five years for the same amount of electricity it takes to keep one of these trucks on the road for an average truck year.
Now, for the whole fleet of long haul trucks:
140,000,000,000 / 250 / 3 =1,866,666 house months per year
Put another way:
140,000,000,000 miles per year / 250 miles per charge / 12 months / 30 days per month / 24 hours per day x 550 kwh per charge = 356,000 kwh on average of power delivered to the charging stations
Consider that 10% is lost in power transmission and nearly 400,000 kw of additional generating capacity is needed. A pittance compared to our 1.2 billion kilowatts of installed capacity
FTA: 80-percent capacity in 60 minutes while the six-battery setup goes to 80-percent in 90 minutes.
Refueling diesel or gas vehicle is a whole lot quicker!!
Plus the electric weighs more. Battery replacement a huge cost.
A search found: Semi trucks can go about 2,100 miles on a tank of diesel fuel (not usually gasoline), assuming tanks totaling 300 gallons and an average fuel efficiency of 7 miles per gallon
You can also fill a 5000 gallon tanker truck in 20 minutes!
The grid will never handle the demand if every vehicle is an EV.