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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

Charged EVs

One major tradeoff is what level of DC fast charging is required to allow trucks to fulfill their duty cycles. A 150 kW charger may recharge a battery pack to 80 percent in about 2.5 Starting out, fleets may want to mix high- and low-power DC fast charging to see which meets the needs of different duty cycles and routes.

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An inside look at how utilities view EVs: expanding electricity sales without adding new customers

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If someone only spends $100 with me yearly to charge their vehicle at one of my high-speed chargers, I’m still probably going to see in the neighborhood of an additional $400 or $500 in home charging. It features 20 CCS DC fast charging stations and it’s located in the heart of downtown Orlando. Factor at a rate of 0.33

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Parking EVs In Driveways and on the Street: Implications for EV Charging

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But I recently came across an article and data that suggests that perhaps more than one-third of US households with garages don’t actually park their cars in them. While I was aware of this trend — I see it loud and clear in my own neighborhood — I hadn’t realized how wide-spread this trend actually was in the US. Volker and Calvin G.

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As the off-road vehicle market rushes to electrify, standards are lagging behind

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High-voltage DC current is more dangerous and harder to interrupt than the comparatively sedate 48 volts used in smaller vehicles. Littelfuse recently expanded its lineup of DC contactors to support next-generation commercial EVs The other thing of course is that drivers love them now, which is fantastic. Garbage trucks.