GCWR: up to 127,000 lbs – highest of the electric vehicle (EV) truck market Driving Range: up to 275 Miles (440 kilometers) Battery Capacity: up to 630 kWh Level III Charge Time (DC): charging to 80% SOC in 1.5 hours Powered by Lion’s Heavy-Duty battery packs (high-energy-density proprietary 750V battery … [continued]
US ground transportation stakeholders are ramping up their interest in electric trucks, with batteries and fuel cells both in play.
Toyota Group’s Hino Motors teases a Class 8 fuel cell electric truck in 2020, delivers the 100% battery electric Tern Class 8 truck in 2024.
Another day, another bad freight trucking electrification study, this one paid for by an anti-electrification trucking lobbying group.
Recently I’ve been reviewing studies related to hydrogen trucking, as it’s one of the few places where serious transportation research organizations still hold out hope for the energy carrier. I’ve looked at studies from multiple countries in Europe and North America back as far as 2010 now. Most recently I’ve … [continued]
One of the interesting things I’ve been doing is participating in a review group for a European study on heavy vehicle decarbonization comparisons and simulations. That means, among other things, that I’m poking at the assumptions being used. As the paper is in review and assumptions are being tested and … [continued]
More publications on hydrogen refueling of freight trucks means more questions to answer. Freight trucking researcher, Jakob Rogstadius, Swedish senior researcher at RISE for Mobility and Systems, was working to understand the critique of The International Council on Clean Transportation’s fatally flawed total cost of ownership study and provided the English-language … [continued]
In recent weeks, the International Council on Clean Transportation’s fatally flawed total cost of ownership for decarbonization of trucking in Europe study has been occupying a reasonable amount of my attention. The question has become, is there a better study to look at? One of my moderately regular correspondents, Jakob … [continued]
Signs that a fuel cell truck revolution is coming to the US have been few and far between. Nevertheless, activity is finally beginning to pick up. Toyota has just jumped into the pool with both feet first, but the company better not look back. Something might be gaining on it. … [continued]
The California firm AJR Trucking will use its new zero emission fuel cell trucks from Nikola Motor to haul mail for the US Postal Service.
