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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 This article appeared in Issue 62: Oct-Dec 2022. One major tradeoff is what level of DC fast charging is required to allow trucks to fulfill their duty cycles. hours, while a 250 kW unit can cut that to 1.5 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. They could do three, four runs a day without a problem, without having to recharge. This article appeared in Issue 64: April-June 2023 – Subscribe now. Garbage trucks.