DIESEL KNOCK!......................
Is there any NET change. Most likely and increase in total cost and energy if you really looked at it.
Claims mean nothing. I want to know what the cost per unit is going to be and maintenance costs when they ultimately arrive.
Might be good in hilly or mountainous areas where the electric drive in the trailer assists the tractor in pulling up grades and the regenerative braking charges up the battery on the down grades while reducing brake wear.
The battery must be the size of a small house.
Imagine a local fire department trying to put out an “unexpected” conflagration involving one of these contraptions? It’d last for days.
“We are beginning to deploy these with our first customers this year, and the goal here is to start scale production in 2024, probably late 2024,” says Javidan. “We’ll start seeing these things in volume on the roadways, I’d say, in early 2025.”
There’s no information as yet on the price of the trailers, but given the epic amounts of fuel a typical semi burns in a year, we imagine the business case over time will look pretty dang decent. This seems to us a great way to begin soft-decarbonizing land transport operations without needing big infrastructure changes or the retirement of existing trucks. We look forward to seeing how things develop for Range.
What are all of the associated costs?
Purchase, Insurance, maintenance, life expectancy...?
The article doesn’t report how much space the batter takes up. Each foot of battery space is a foot less paying cargo. That lost revenue has to be considered. Many customers sell product on a truckload basis calculated on number of pallets on a 53’ trailer.
More fake info from lying government
Sounds like a really good idea, at least for now.
It also may cut payload capacity by 36.3%. There ain’t no free lunch.
Maybe if you steal the electricity to charge the battery you can reduce fuel consumption by a third.
Interesting that the battery is only 200 A-hr. I have 2 x 6 A-hr batteries in my Ryobi snow blower for a total of 12 A-hr. That’s 17% of the truck battery storage. Maybe I can hook my snowblower to my car to reduce my fuel consumption by 36%.
Something smells here...maybe it’s burning LiIon batteries.
It is extremely deceptive to assert a fuel efficiency savings for the semi, without also factoring in the nonzero energy consumption of the trailer.
As usual, this kind of deception is par for the course from the left.
Why do I smell BS.
I like the shopping cart mode. Just think of all the aluminum cans I can wheel down to the recycling center.
Total trailer weight vs. a conventional trailer? Do you lose 30% of cargo capacity? Net wash?
https://www.bmwblog.com/2022/08/23/bmw-eboost-and-mild-hybrids/
Same principle has been applied to cars, just a matter of degree to how much battery is useful. Probably adds 3-6% improvement in fuel efficiency for city drving.