Carryfast:
lancpudn:
It makes you wonder if GM were hoodwinked into recently taking a $2billion stake in NikolaSpeaking of e-trucks anyone seen the new line up of Mercedes Benz eActros EVāFuel cell trucks they have in mind
ālong rangeā 500Km or the Gen2 fuel cell with 1000Km range
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Why not just use Hydrogen fuelled conventional engines that everyone knows.
While as it stands unless they find a better efficient way of making it even Hydrogen is just going to eventually result in nuclear disaster with the power needed to produce it.All to solve a non existent CO2 āproblemā.
As for anyone claiming to be able to solve the battery weight v range v average speed v payload equation only GM could be stupid enough to believe it.
Reading another blurb from Mercedes Benz.
āBattery power will be rather used for lower cargo weights and for shorter distances.
āFuel-cell power will tend to be the preferred option for heavier loads and longer distances.ā
āThe production version of the Mercedes-Benz GenH2 Truck, which made its world premiere as a concept vehicle, will have a gross vehicle weight of 40 tons and a payload of 25 tones.ā
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Two special liquid-hydrogen tanks and a particularly powerful fuel-cell system will make this high payload and long range possible, and therefore form the core of the GenH2 Truck concept".
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The manufacturer says liquid ā instead of gaseous - hydrogen will be used as with its higher energy density, the vehicleās performance is planned to equal that of a comparable conventional diesel truck."