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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

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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. The cost equation is trickier. Stay tuned. Subscribe here.

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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. That’s for new purchases—the lifetime of a truck is usually at 15 years plus—seven or eight years in the primary market and up to 10 years in the secondary market.