thats probably an air conditioning condenser for the drivers cab compartment youre seeing but perhaps you'd rather it be driverless and make another truck driver homeless
Don't worry won't take long to see that short miles and have to recharge they'll be running back to diesel 😅 those electric trucks will be only good for local watch what I tell you
Nah, my man conservative Elon has it figured out. His Super Chargers don’t pull from the grid during the day, has solar producing almost free electricity so he can resell at 40x profit. That’s American capitalism.
Nah, Big companies they use solar to power their trucks. That is what one sanitation company is doing for their trucks. Like how y'all like to complain lol
Be sure to let us know how their freight is affected this summer when the rolling blackouts happen. I'd like to know what kind of downtime these trucks experience.
California has plenty of electricity, the rolling blackouts happen in areas where the electrical infrastructure is old and not capable to handle large usage. As number of EVs are increasing so is the infrastructure being upgrade. Places like those facilities already likely have most modern electrical infrastructure. Also such truck likely consumes small fraction of electricity they already use to run the facility.
@@tkd128california electric lines were causing forest fires because they were so old and not up to date, so what the hella are you talking about trying to make it seem California is just so ahead of other places, they aren't.
@@pattycarljackson Those fires are traced to maintenance failures of a single company (PG&E). Currently 1 in 4 new cars old in California are ZEVs and the peak energy usage from EVs is 1%. It is estimated that by 2030 this will increase to 5% of total energy usage.
Key phrase: short distances. It will only move from warehouse to warehouse in the city. It's still a long, long road ahead for the electrification of interstate freight hauling. Politicians make it seem as if the technology was there already.
which ones? pretty sure all of them are treating it as a new technology to support OTR trucks. It makes a ton of sense to remove diesel burning vehicles from urban areas to reduce pollution. You are being a luddite.
Warehouse to warehouse? What's the point of that? It may reduce complaints from neighborhoods where massive new construction of warehouses increased traffic noise. Electric trucks could ease that problem.
They can afford a/c. And it is in all of the big rig tractors. It's just a dumb idea for the package cars. If you've ever delivered, the door is open and you're outside more than you're inside. It would be like driving around your personal vehicle with all the windows down, a/c blasting. It will never stay cool.
Wouldn't all electric be great for their household delivery trucks? Seems like stop-and-go is hard on a combustion engine for both wear and MPG. I guess the challenge always becomes range.
Actually ups has a lot of jobs that go less than 200 miles. A large city like LA has lots of warehouses that ups uses. Plus customers they pick up and deliver with trailers. Not to mention railroad trailers that have to be moved around. But they'll keep using diesels for long trips.
Batteries lose charge in colder temps And for that you get 250 miles we’ll figure that number will drop in cold winters and say your out on the road and boom your stuck on some pass out west or in a winter storm and your down with no power to keep you warm I think this is going to be a huge mistake
It is watch they,ll be running back to diesel fuel 😅 and besides they make too much money taxes us on gas and fuel ppl really think the combustion engine is going somewhere.. fools 😂
We’re at the first stages of evo vehicles, the door just opened for more development and gov agency to invest. our first cars we had in the early 1900s-1960s were 10-15mpg
Short hauls are constantly going from hub to hub, customer pick up, etc so not necessary. One truck at ups is normally used for 2 jobs. Will be recharged between jobs with those super chargers.
@@69ztang I was thinking for modifying range for longer runs in the future, it’s what I do with my prototypes , range extension and off grid applications. Almost like carrying the charger with you on good sunny days. No down / charge time.
You would need a dedicated trailer for that. UPS handles thousands of trailers so it would be too expensive. Maybe in the future once they get more trucks in the fleet.
The eCascadia uses a pair of motors mounted directly to the drive axles. I don't know what the torque specs are, but they get up and go much quicker than comparable diesels.
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If you think this pollutes less, that's rather ignorant. Look at the pollution and process from mining everything needed to build the truck and look at the fossil fuel pollution from power plants used to charge that truck. It's not doing the world any favors. The only thing it helps with is being quieter. That's literally the ONLY advantage. WAY Less range and long recharge times will lead to freight flow issues as well as lack of recharge infrastructure. And right now there's currently a parking problem for semi trucks as it is, you think trying to add this infrastructure and charging points are going to solve that? No it's just gonna make it worse. The average electric truck can only go 150 to 300 miles on a charge. That's not even half a work shift. The average diesel truck can go 800 to 1300 miles on a tank. It takes about 5 minutes to refuel diesel. It takes 8 to 10 hours to fully recharge an electric truck.
It's all about dollars and cents. As diesel fuel gets more and more expensive, corporations won't be able to ignore the cost savings of going electric. Were talking tens of millions of dollars in savings for a big fleet like UPS.
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@@PyroShields Betting its allot less than the carbon foot print of all the jets attending the G20 and G7 summits. per year. It is also way less than all the Chinese freighters crossing the ocean.
@PyroShields dude. Look up how battery's are made. Look at all the big diesel equipment it takes to get the material for 1 car battery. Maybe it wouldn't be such a big deal if our eletricity came from clean sorces like damns that make water spin turbins or windemeals, something! But the overwhelming majority of our electricity comes from coal and oil, that's way worse for the environment dude. There's no catalic converter on a powerplant. Very dirty
@@ac60hz120 Look up how oil gets here and what happens when there is a spill. It takes decades to clean our oceans up. Far worse. Before EV's they said to the public you need to change your ways, nobody did and pollution kept on increasing.
@@PyroShields lot of oil spills in the Atlantic. Ocean has fully recovered after just a few days. What about coal suit and oil suit being released into the atmosphere raining down on everyone
@@ac60hz120 It doesn't take a few days. I'm not sure where you come up with this stuff. My point is before EV's they said we have to stop using fossil fuel because we are destroying the planet.
