#FreightlinereCascadia

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Pride Group đã đặt hàng 250 xe tải điện Freightliner eCascadia và eM2

Pride Group công bố đã đặt hàng xe tải điện Freightliner eCascadia Class 8 mới ra mắt và xe tải điện Freightliner eM2 Class 6-7 sắp ra mắt.

Việc giao hàng dự kiến sẽ bắt đầu vào giữa năm 2023.

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Using two electric trucks to do the work of one diesel truck is not how it's supposed to work

Williams' typical day consists of two runs: driving an empty drayage trailer to the port and hauling a load back to NFI's site. As his truck recharges after the first run, he climbs into another eCascadia and repeats the roundtrip of just over 100 miles. "They want us to put as many miles on each truck as possible," he said. "That's the only way they are going to find any issues." racked up about 50,000 miles. In about four months, NFI's fleet of nine electric day cabs has racked up about 50,000 miles.Alan Adler writing for FreightWaves Let me start with this; the Freightliner eCascadia has a 250 miles range per charge. While I understand that they want to put as many miles into the fleet of nine electric trucks, but doing a single 100mile round trip, and jumping into a fully charged truck, while the other one is charging, is not the way to accurately test electric trucks. At least I think so. Not everyone is going to have a second truck so that they can make two 100 mile round trips in a day. That matters during all-too-frequent slowdowns on California freeways. When traffic begins moving, Williams keeps pace. In a diesel, he would be left behind, working through gears to get up to speed. "I would have the space of two diesel trucks in front of me. By the time I get going, five cars jump in front of me," he said. "With this truck, I can stay right with the cars rather than being dropped back every time we stop and go." A benefit of being electric is you get full torque all at once, but the last thing you probably might want to do is be right behind a car because you don't want cars slipping in front of you. Newer Freightliners have Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and providing automatic emergency braking.  "You know your limitations," Williams said. "I've been driving these for almost three months and I have never been stuck anywhere. I've actually had this at the port for eight hours, down there all day, and drove back. So I did basically an eight-hour day with one charge." Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you are almost parked a majority of the time your waiting? Plus, you are not hauling a load for eight hours straight. Also, what gives with that "charge" gauge? F to E? What is this, a diesel truck? It shouldn't even have that gauge; it really should just give you an estimated range left based on charge available. I will end by saying this. Let's assume that electric trucks take off and become affordable. Two crucial things need to happen. 

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Network

One; You need to have the charging infrastructure ready to go. Tesla has years laying its charging network for its cars, and at times, there is a waiting line to get a charging spot. I cant imagine the line of trucks waiting to get a quick charge. Also, what happens when the power goes out? Southern California has recently been experiencing mandatory blackouts during the fire season. It would be extremely inconvenient.

Taxes

Two: What's going to. Happen to all the fuel tax revenue the state receives from diesel fuel? I seriously doubt states will not mind losing that revenue stream. I'm looking at you, California. I can easily see them just applying the same amount of tax that fuel has, and applying it to electricity for charging.  We still have a very long way to go before electric trucks can become even a possibility; there are many questions still up in the air. This is why large companies are testing them out, but I don't see electricity taking over what diesel has been reliably proving the industry for many years. Read the full article