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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

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But the time and cost of installing the needed charging infrastructure for electric trucks can vary enormously: “from a few thousand dollars for lower-power chargers to millions of dollars for high-power chargers” that can deliver up to 1 megawatt each. This article appeared in Issue 62: Oct-Dec 2022. Onward and upward. Stay tuned.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

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For some (not all) use cases, the economic advantages of going electric have been clear for a long time, and yet we’ve seen a dozen EV manufacturers go bust while trying to address the commercial market, while fleet operators continue to buy diesel vehicles, which continue to belch out clouds of oily black smoke. Any change is hard.

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WattEV aims to operate 12,000 electric trucks-as-a-service and a charging network to support them by 2030

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Identifying the routes for the Pony Express model is an interim problem we need to solve in order to maximize utilization of the assets and get the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) at par with diesel. Charged : The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are in the news quite a lot these days. Salim: Absolutely. Salim: Sure.