It’s hard to imagine a garbage truck-EV package existing. I doubt if the battery power would last more than 2 hours before a 3-hour recharge. Will the union of garbage guys just allocate a 3-hour pause in the middle of their pick-up schedule?
Of course - if it will save the erf.
“Will the union of garbage guys just allocate a 3-hour pause in the middle of their pick-up schedule?”
Why of course, many of the union bosses will make sure their guys get paid on the clock during off time, plus being a heavy vehicle today’s trucks are going to take more than 3 hours to charge. Taxpayers foot the bill of course.
Actually, garbage trucks are one of the very few applications where EVs COULD be useful. Garbage trucks make very frequent starts and stops. IF the energy used to accelerate the truck could be recovered while the truck is stopping, they would have significantly extended range. The problem with this is that present batteries cannot be recharged at the rate required to make this possible. The batteries simply cannot efficiently accept this rate of charging. The electric motors are fully capable of charging and discharging at the required rate, batteries aren’t. This is why battery charging times are so long (along with insufficient electrical power delivered to the charging stations).
“It’s hard to imagine a garbage truck-EV package existing. I doubt if the battery power would last more than 2 hours before a 3-hour recharge. Will the union of garbage guys just allocate a 3-hour pause in the middle of their pick-up schedule?”
Getting paid to sit around and do nothing? Featherbedding is an old union tradition.