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. 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. 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

MAY 31, 2022

This is far from the range that most diesel trucks offer, and a two-to-three-hour charge time is unacceptable to most drivers. Identifying the routes for the Pony Express model is an interim problem we need to solve in order to maximize utilization of the assets and get the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) at par with diesel.

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Charging Re-Charge Volvo Hydrogen 91

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. Therefore, a lot of electric and hydrogen vehicles are being brought into that market quickly.

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Standards Market Volt Vehicles 73