Volvo Class 8 Electric Trucks....Coming to America in 2021
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As their release says, the vehicle in question is designed for local and regional deliveries. It's not a long haul truck. I see an awful lot of semis delivering food to supermarkets, dry goods to big box stores, and the like - all from local to semi-local warehouse complexes. I'd bet that few if any of those rigs come close to 150 miles a day.
Where I think electric trucks would really pay off, though, would be for those fleets of UPS, FEDEX, USPS, Amazon and similar delivery services doing residential and small business deliveries.
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When you buy a Tesla they give you a 220 cord and a 110 cord. If you plug in the 110 cord, it charges at a rate of 4 miles in an hour. If you charge for 10 hours, you can drive 40 miles.
For comparison, the 220 charger that I wired up in brother's garage gives you 22 miles in an hour. So he is easily getting a full charge over night.
All the Tesla charging stations are 220. They are called "Super Chargers" and they charge much faster than the 220 that I hooked up. Brother got a full charge in an hour at the Super Charger in Baton Rouge and it cost about $11.
There probably are places, maybe a Corner Pantry, or a motel where you could plug in your 110 cord and they wouldn't make you pay but that would be a long wait. Would take you about two days to get a full charge.
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When I first got to Florida I worked for a couple places as a mechanic for a local delivery company those trucks put on a lot more miles then you would think. I could see electric as a spotter truck (yard dog) where they don't leave the compound
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How many AA batteries will I need, to get me back home from the dollar store?
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Savage that is a great idea. The electric truck would be perfect for a yard dog.
They never leave the terminal they just drive around the yard all day. And, the yard dog could get a recharge at lunch there at his home terminal.
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I wonder if there will come a day when the roads will have an inductive cable laid down in them so that the vehicle will take power direct from the roadway like the inductive chargers that some cell phones use?
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My "short day" in the tractor trailer or a bobtail was right at 210 miles a day. You have to consider what a 53ft trailer delivers in a day, and the cost to unload that and reload into several bobtails for local delivery too. I keep hearing how green and efficient these electric vehicles are, but not much on how green the disposal of the worn out batteries are.
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Battery technology is advancing by leaps and bounds - or is it volts and amps? The Highlander Hybrid we just bought has a battery that Toyota warrants for 100,000 miles and they say it could be good for double that. And there are even more powerful ones with longer lives now being tested. Ones that don't use lithium, which is not abundant enough to serve the demand expected. There's even a battery now in test that uses air as the medium. I kid you not.
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I drove a city bus in my hometown back in the early 90's. I would do on average about 100 miles in an 8 hour workday. An electric fleet would be ideal for such an operation.
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