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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

Charged EVs

Some makers suggest hydrogen fuel cells will be the way to go; the most promising application seems to be long-haul trucking with few or no stops. One major tradeoff is what level of DC fast charging is required to allow trucks to fulfill their duty cycles. But today, heavy trucks remain a diesel world. That’s about to change.

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

Charged EVs

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.