Originally Posted by
abraham
Seattle has some electric garbage trucks, when I looked into it I was surprised they only had a Max range of 60 miles. I'm not sure why I thought they needed more than that.
Given how much extra batteries weigh, I don't think you'd want to carry around a ton of additional weight all the time just to be able to tow 1-200 miles more.
This is the big engineering design issue for Class 8 trucks. How do you build a battery pack and come in within the 80k lb FDOT weight limits and then get the range needed, so that you are not having to stop every 2-3 hours to recharge the batteries for an hour. So for long haul trucking that is a big nut to crack. For P&D (pick up & delivery) vehicles in the class 4-6 range, it shouldn't be such a big issue as much of that is multi-drop in short radius range (100-150 miles).
That's why for the Amazon/FedEx, etc. group with the commercial vans for last mile delivery, it's not such a big deal on the range situation. But all that engineering tech that squeezes out more miles per Kwh per pound of battery is going to benefit all EV's in the long run.
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