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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

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One major tradeoff is what level of DC fast charging is required to allow trucks to fulfill their duty cycles. 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. A 150 kW charger may recharge a battery pack to 80 percent in about 2.5

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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. And then there’s interoperability and all those standards that we take for granted in the 12- and 24-volt world. Geoff Schwartz: Yeah, things like what’s the proper spacing of wiring and stuff like that.