Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Large commercial trucks and other heavy equipment have run on diesel fuel for many decades now. But today, heavy trucks remain a diesel world. Its first model was an electric adaptation of its conventional diesel-powered VNR tractor. Rising fuel-economy standards during the 2020s will do the same. That’s about to change.

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Volvo Fleet Electric Electrical 131

Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

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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Fleet Portland Charging Building 52

Charged EVs

AUGUST 4, 2023

Probably one of the fastest things out there going electric is underground mining, because one of the big problems is, when you have diesel equipment down in a mine, how do you get all the fumes out? I don’t come home smelling like diesel. This article appeared in Issue 64: April-June 2023 – Subscribe now. It’s a lot of power.

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Standards Market Volt Vehicles 73

Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Remember the Balqon container truck I wrote about a while back, the Port of Long Beach truck that can haul 60,000 lbs and that’s starting to replace diesel spewing internal combustion trucks? Plugging into the SoCal grid, in this case, SoCal Edison, this PHEV tug is significantly cleaner than its diesel burning brethren.

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Long Beach Los Angeles Lead Acid Electric 100

Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

Strategically positioned between the Central Valley and the Los Angeles megalopolis, the charging hub will feature a solar microgrid with battery storage, plus grid energy from PG&E. This is far from the range that most diesel trucks offer, and a two-to-three-hour charge time is unacceptable to most drivers.

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Charging Re-Charge Volvo Hydrogen 91