I looked up an all-electric semi. Kenworth has one that has an operating range of 150 miles, “depending the application.”. It’s 256 miles from Needles to Los Angeles, so the Kenworth can’t make it from the border to the coast without at least one charge, “depending on the application.”
Since they are targeting certain areas for zero-emission goals, will there be staging areas where there would be a handoff of freight between diesel and electric trucks going to and from the ports?
Either eay, I can’t wait to see this works out, or doesn’t work out.
“looked up an all-electric semi. Kenworth has one that has an operating range of 150 miles”
Is that range for hauling a fully loaded trailer ???? We have already seen through various tests that electric battery range decreases rapidly with the more weight hauled. Decrease in range can exceed 70%, potentially turning the 150 mile range into 45 miles. Add in driving up steep hills and it gets even worse.
The other consideration no one seems to be talking about is charging infrastructure for these E-semis. I recently read a paper on the electrical demand in kW for the various types of chargers, i.e. Level 1, Level 2, and the rapid charge Level 3. It also talked about Level 3 rapid chargers for semis. The stated electrical demand for those devices was 1 MW! Now multiply that by say, 20 rapid charging stations at a typical truck stop and you get an aggregate demand of 20 MW if all of the chargers are in use at the same time. That is the same demand as a small factory. Multiply that several hundred times over for statewide coverage. This is simply ludicrous. It can’t possibly work. These people criminally insane.