I see a few battery and hybrid powered buses but am told that they dont use them in very cold conditions.If true you therefor need a second vehicle as back up.
I can see that cold weather is going to affect battery efficiency, around the north-east a see quite a few buses proclaiming they’re “gas powered” but that will be methane, probably biomethane, not hydrogen.
edd1974:
but solar panels only last 25 years so in 25 years have scrap them in and replace with new ones.
Are you sure about that? Or just getting confused with their 25 year warranty?
stu675:
edd1974:
but solar panels only last 25 years so in 25 years have scrap them in and replace with new ones.Are you sure about that? Or just getting confused with their 25 year warranty?
was a progamme on tv few weeks ago are solar panels a good idea.or something similar . any way was very informtive showing how it works runing costs etc etc. and he said it can take on averge 8-10 years to reclaim back the cost of the invesment by the savings on your eletric bills.
and he did say they have a life span of approx 25 years he never said what happens after 25 years though.
Link to BBC news story about it.
Mercedes announces the premier of their new long haul eActros 600 on the10th October. electrive.com/2023/06/13/me … ctros-600/
The Chinese electric HGV manufacturers are going to disrupt the European truck manufacturers & do what they’re doing to legacy car manufacturers.
Scania, Mercedes-Benz & Man are the only EU truck manufacturers on target to decarbonise. transportenvironment.org/di … ise-study/
To be fair Volvo are taking the sensible option and hedging its bets. Electric isn’t, and never will be the answer for every single application. For a tech fanatic such as myself we live in fascinating times that’s for sure. My prediction is a dual fuel hydrogen and electric future but no one has the answers yet, despite so many thinking they do
switchlogic:
To be fair Volvo are taking the sensible option and hedging its bets. Electric isn’t, and never will be the answer for every single application. For a tech fanatic such as myself we live in fascinating times that’s for sure. My prediction is a dual fuel hydrogen and electric future but no one has the answers yet, despite so many thinking they do
Yes both will play a big part with freight transport, shipping & aviation getting the lions share of hydrogen technology. There was a meeting yesterday with the EU commission’s proposal to ■■■■■ freight/bus transport levels. “Under the proposal, the CO2 reduction targets for lorries will increase in intensity roughly every five years, starting with a 45% reduction compared to 2019 levels by 2030, scaling up to 65% by 2035 and reaching 90% by 2040”.
“China is moving so fast and is so far ahead of all of us in terms of new technologies, especially in transport. And we are continuing to think about ‘are we losing our competitiveness from moving too fast?’ We are losing our competitiveness as a result of moving too slow, in my personal opinion,” euractiv.com/section/road-t … ds-debate/
Volvo just delivered it’s monster 74-tonne FH electric 6x4 with two container trailers 
electrive.com/2023/06/27/vo … in-sweden/
If European truck manufacturers don’t ramp up production of electric trucks they stand to lose a large market share to Chinese & American electric truck manufacturers.
The Chinese truck manufacturers will do what they’ve done with their electric cars & flood the international market with them.
You too could be driving one of their battery swap tractor units. transportenvironment.org/di … bcg-study/
TBF you don’t see many of these in the UK but the Turkish love them and the Chinese Hino seem to be only tippers and not tractor units in the UK.
cwickesltd:
TBF you don’t see many of these in the UK but the Turkish love them and the Chinese Hino seem to be only tippers and not tractor units in the UK.
Just so you know, Hino are Japanese not Chinese.
To those accusing Carryfast of being a troll, you are being grossly unfair, he’s genuinely delusional. He exists on a wholly different plain to normal people.
Tell me more about Australia going nuclear, Carryfast. Any government proposing to do so would be committing political suicide.
We are trialling seventy tonne electric trucks on our busiest freight corridor, Sydney ~ Melbourne, halfway the batteries will be swapped for fully charged units,while the driver takes a mandatory break.
Twenty-four hour manned trucks could be operated in the same fashion, doing a battery change at shift change and during a break. A whole lot more economical than standing down a truck to simply charge the batteries.
Star down under.:
To those accusing Carryfast of being a troll, you are being grossly unfair, he’s genuinely delusional. He exists on a wholly different plain to normal people.
Tell me more about Australia going nuclear, Carryfast. Any government proposing to do so would be committing political suicide.
We are trialling seventy tonne electric trucks on our busiest freight corridor, Sydney ~ Melbourne, halfway the batteries will be swapped for fully charged units,while the driver takes a mandatory break.
Twenty-four hour manned trucks could be operated in the same fashion, doing a battery change at shift change and during a break. A whole lot more economical than standing down a truck to simply charge the batteries.
Just been reading that Australia has changed the design rules to allow wide bodied trucks removing barriers for the uptake of heavy duty electric trucks. thedriven.io/2023/09/28/decisio … australia/
Well-Jell:
cwickesltd:
TBF you don’t see many of these in the UK but the Turkish love them and the Chinese Hino seem to be only tippers and not tractor units in the UK.Just so you know, Hino are Japanese not Chinese.
And just so everyone knows,Hinos are ■■■■.thankfully not sold here anymore.
A Tesla semi was tested by an independent organisation in the USA over an 18 day period with other electric lorry manufacturers & the Tesla Semi covered 1732 kms/1076 miles in a single day. thedriven.io/2023/10/02/tesla-s … ent-trial/
MAN has announced it’s accepting orders for it’s new eTGX heavy duty electric truck. electrive.com/2023/10/30/ma … he-etruck/
