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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

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A 150 kW charger may recharge a battery pack to 80 percent in about 2.5 In California, several utilities offer incentive programs to buy down the capital equipment cost for their customers, a model other states should consider emulating.”. 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.

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

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The primary customers right now are the ports—Port of Long Beach, Port of Los Angeles­—and the ports around the country are usually in urban environments. They could do three, four runs a day without a problem, without having to recharge. Shortly they’re going to eliminate the ability to buy gas mowers and stuff like that.