I’ve just seen an ‘experimental’ electric powered 8 wheel lorry with ZERO EMISSIONS TRUCK plastered up the sides. I was told it weighs 25 tons empty (I guess the batteries are a bit heavy!) and means it will probably have a payload of 7 tons?. (If it were a 32 tonner)
My Question: if it was a tipper truck delivering 7 tons of coal to a power station, at what point in distance would it use more electricity from the powerstation than coal burnt to produce the electricity to power it?
I believe that the weight limit does not include the weight of the batteries …I recall reading something !
And if I am right fully loaded it will be seriously heavy !
“Exported Emissions Truck”
Efficiency of a modern diesel is slightly less than that of a power station, but then offsetting that you have transmission losses and charging losses, factor those in, and once you’re done carbon footprint per mile = slightly worse than a normal truck.
So called greens can’t do sums.
Pure exhaust pipe nimbyism & sod the environment in fact, regardless of claims.
3 wheeler:
I believe that the weight limit does not include the weight of the batteries …I recall reading something !
And if I am right fully loaded it will be seriously heavy !
But if it harvests electricity when braking it might have some serious stopping power.
Zero emissions. What a laugh. Talk about marketing to the ignorant. Shame the emmisions it causes are remote from the vehicle. Appeals to the Nimby and the Guardian Londoner as they can believe it’s zero emissions for them and little Horace on acatia avenue. Albeit small in comparison to total produced, Drax will have to put its foot down a bit more to power the grid. Of course the whole world socks it for the extra emissions.
Typical Nimby pleaser. Fixes the end symptom but the bill gets kicked into the long grass for everyone else to pick up. Carbon offsetting is smoke and mirrors balls anyway. All it does is pass the parcel further up the chain.
A thought… most of these vehicles are likely to be used during the day, and back at base, or wherever, charging at night / overnight… it’s at these times when we have a surplus of generated electricity which gets wasted. Further to that, the electricty generated by ‘traditional’ means (coal, etc) is already scaled back /switched off at night / when not required, and the remaining power that’s generated / left over mostly comes from renewable sources, hydro, wind, etc which can’t/doesn’t need to be switched off… hence why it gets generated and wasted in the first place.
So, if they can find a way for these trucks to be productive during the day, and off the road charging at night on renewably-sourced generated electricity that is mostly wasted - then I guess it’s carbon footprint would indeed be smaller than at first glance.
Yes but this is relying on Donald duck enterprises running its 2 experimental electric lorries. They’re not testing for fun. They plan this to be scalable.
The statement as stand alone “zero emissions” is false. Simply false. Even more false as they’re peddling a concept. One electric vehicle alone can seem neutral as who would notice the extra carbon required from manufacturing one or two electric lorry batteries and providing power to charge? Replace every lorry on the road (to take it to the extreme) with electric vehicles and no amount of slack in the grid generating capacity will cover this, yes the city smog will decrease but not the emissions. Drax will indeed have to floor it some more. How much extra net contribution to carbon emissions? Remains to be seen. Nuclear fusion anyone 
? You don’t get summat for free.
20 litre V10 petrol with a couple of superchargers running on LPG …it will make those w##ky V8 Scanias sound crap . Cannot wait !
One of our contractors was trialling an electric powered tipper truck handed it back within a week as it could not get from Hertford to Bedford without running out of charge had to get it recovered twice so sent it back.
