Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

It has now received a Certificate of Conformity for the Semi from the EPA. Today, battery-electric Class 8 tractors still have a higher lifetime cost, due entirely to the initial purchase price of a heavy-duty vehicle with a huge battery (264 kWh for the first-generation VNR Electric). This article appeared in Issue 62: Oct-Dec 2022.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 4, 2023

The EPA requirements are that commercial vehicles will have to be 40% electric by 2035. You’re operating close in neighborhoods, so the quiet is a huge advantage, and you have room to have a pretty good-sized electric actuator on a garbage truck because it’s a bigger vehicle. When will they need to go higher than 1,000 volts?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Although charging infrastructure is beginning to find its way into cities, it may be awhile until they are available in residential neighborhoods en masse. The biggest problem with recharging at home - as already alluded to in the article, is that electric cars are mostly marketed as city vehicles.

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