That Took One Year?!?
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Who We Are:
Edison Motors is a privately owned Canadian Clean Technology Company That Manufactures Electric Semi Trucks.
Dec 2021: Edison Motors was announced to the public
July 2022: Edison built North America’s first electric logging truck.
Oct 2022: Edison completed prototype testing
Nov 2022: Edison Motors began building their first production truck: an Edison L750
Edison Motors aims to produce Electric & Hybrid Vocational Trucks & EV Conversion Kits that deliver fuel savings without compromise.
Edison Motors was founded by Chace Barber and Eric Little who entered their business partnership in 2016 after graduating university and starting a trucking company with a 1969 Kenworth 5 axle Logging Truck (Old Blue). They began hauling logs in Merritt, BC. moved to hauling mining equipment into the Yukon and then expanded to moving drilling rigs in Alberta before returning back to BC Logging.
The business grew, more trucks were added and due to the frustration in serviceability of newer trucks the partners started rebuilding older trucks from the frame rails up to use in their own trucking operation instead of buying new truck. The business grew and expanded to hauling and installing power generation systems. In 2019 this added business aspect and growth to taking on the role of engineering and designing off-grid solar hybrid power systems. After their first successful project design and construction of a first nations community in northern BC Canada, Eric and Chace started to engineering process of a diesel-electric semi truck using the same principles.
The Edison Truck is the result of a trucking company who remanufactured classic logging trucks with their engineering expertise of off-grid hybrid power systems. It is the aim of Edison Team to have the reliability and serviceability of a classic semi with the efficiency, power, and emissions standards of an electric truck.
After reserving a Tesla semi in 2017 and not receiving the truck for 4 years, in 2021 they decided to start building their own electric trucks because that was quicker than waiting for the Tesla delivery and resulted in designing of a more robust truck tailored to the logging and heavy vocational industries their trucking company operated in.
Building The Truck Of The Future With The Quality Of The Past.
We only want to sell you the truck once.
Much like the Pacific trucks of the 1960’s and 1970’s. The Edison trucks are designed to be able to last, we understand the more uptime the truck sees and the longer it’s service life the better the Return on Investment is in the truck.
This is Edison Motors goal and philosophy, build the futures electric truck to run efficient as possible while being as simple to maintain as possible.
We are truckers, building truck, for truckers.
We let the engineers decided what components the truck needs for the electrical side, then we have experienced mechanics tell us what parts and being used and where those parts are going.
Our mechanics are use to working on logging trucks that are broken down in the middle of the bush, they know they’re the ones who will have to go repair them. We believe that nobody is better are make sure the truck is reliable and easy to fix as the ones who have to lay in snow at -40’ below or in spring mud.
Don’t kid yourself, these are the most efficient & modern trucks you can possible buy on the market today, but they’re made to be fixed in the bush. Our truck is high tech so your shop doesn’t have to be.
When your Edison Truck is delivered you can be sure you won’t need to go truck shopping again until you want to expand the fleet
In The Shop.
It’s a fact in the vocational world that trucks are going to break-down. Off-road heavy hauling and logging in Canada beats up equipment. Edison plans for this by engineering our parts and equipment to make them as easy to service as possible for your mechanics.
Edison has a multi-layer process to achieve this goal:
The first step is early involvement of mechanics into the design process, making sure experienced mechanics look at the design for serviceability
Using commonly sourced parts, we try wherever possible to limit any custom built parts and opt for the common aftermarket parts companies use. This makes sure when something breaks you can go into any parts store and have the piece you need to get back on the road
no fault codes, if there is a fault our computer will tell you exact what the check engine light means 
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I wish a company would bring this tech to medium duty trucks. we do storm recovery and there are always fuel supply issues to extending fuel range would be a huge help.
They have stated they plan to. The problem with medium duty trucks is there is a lot more regulations they have to go through. It will probably be a retrofit kit. They just have partners that they will build trucks for first as they grow. They don’t even have a building to manufacture their trucks in yet.
They have a single axle service truck in the works and are exploring a 4wd option
@@joemelvin52544wd on dual solid axle trucks like the f350-650 trucks is pretty easy with their E-axles tbh, theyve just gotta scale em down to like a dana 60 size.
I have cousins who work as designers/engineers for one of the big3 about 6 years ago I pitched this idea specifically for the HD pickup market (350/3500) chassis trucks. All we got was an electric pickup that was doomed by the specific issues with pure EV that I warned them about.
We have some of those in Europe. Depends of course what you mean with Medium duty. Ours are 7.5 ton delivery trucks. Rosenberger has built the first Firetruck EV for the Berlin Feuerwehr.
I'm not even a trucker but this company is one of the most exciting things in life for me right now, I'm so hooked. The favourite part of my day is seeing a new video from you guys and watching the progress.
Even for a whole year you guys accomplished a ton, but it looks even more crazy when compressed into a few minutes.
I’d love to see what went into getting that year rolling; I’m sure there was planning and footwork that went into “let’s make a company and build a diesel electric truck.”
May your next year be a good as the last.
I'm actually amazed that you could source all your stuff within a year. The lead times for some material handling equipment is still over a year these days
The cat going under and the chipmunk coming out really entertained me more than it should have lol
If everything improved at this place I can't even imagine how awesome the world be.
Capitalism. He had the freedom to do things for his own benefit in his own way.
what is this english skill
@@ertgb_think it was supposed to say “pace” not place, then it all makes sense
@@S3pra something like that
ohhh that makes more sense haha, thought he meant at the shop@@S3pra
Chase has made me say words like Skookum and I dunno how to feel about that
Still great to see how far y’all have come
10:10 The solar reefer idea is amazing. I was thinking of something like this myself, and thought that Edison would be the perfect company to do it.
Little did I know...
Keep up the good work :D
Massive congratulations to Chace and Eric for an incredible achievement. From "Carl" to a working prototype in one year is a truly amazing journey. And now comes the hard part ... scaling up. Faster would be better, but going public has a bunch of issues. Angel investor is great if they don't screw up the company dynamics or interfere. Watching with interest, wish I could help!
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A while back Amazon bought a warehouse robotics company named Kiva to guarantee that ONLY Amazon would have access to their products. CUMMINS bought MERITOR. Typical big-company anti-competitive move - if you don't know who is killing North American manufacturing, you just need to look in the boardrooms.
Thanks for the shout out Chace! It’s been a pleasure working with you and your team. The team and I at Flodraulic believe in what you are doing and look forward to helping you move from production Prototypes to manufacturing. We’ll be with you every step of the way.
Designed & Built a functional Trucks from the ground up in only 1 year!¡!¡!¡! This is truly amazing 👏 👏👏
Congrats on all the progress and cute lite baby squirrel in the bottom left corner of the frame at 8:58 😀
Actually I think that is a chipmunk, squirrel have a bushier tail and larger body.
I like that you do these type of segments outside, we get to see the beauty of the outdoors. If this was one of the big boys doing this project, it would be behind 30 foot barbed wire topped fences, inside a high security building, and total media blackout. Noone would see anything till the prototype was completely built and then unveiled at some huge press event. But Noone would be able to get up close to it.
Then it will disappear back into the high security shop to get the major systems installed and working. Then do testing to see if it actually works. Probably taking 6 months to do what you did in the last week. Plus having 2 dozen different high level, high security meetings to talk about about each detail to death.
They would probably have a three day meeting just to argue about all the cables management issues. Where you guys just went ahead and ran everything and figured it out as you went.
They would have announced a production date at the press conference, and then move it back 3 or 4 times as they run into problems and delays.
With millions if not billions of dollars of cost overruns. You guys are staying under budget.
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Keep up the good work guys.
I've been watching from Japan since last year and it's been amazing to watch the progression and development of everything live. so glad you guys are almost fully finished with the first truck
9:21 I love see how awesome it is where y'all at to have small animals living with y'all that because you haven't destroyed the environment around y'all as so many have done. Love what y'all doing!!
If all companies want dual axles...could you put the third axle in the trailer with a small battery which loads downhill and with solar? It could help a lot in the mountains on weaker trucks.
An update from the CEO in dirty work jeans and boots!
*RESPECT!!*
You did an excellent job putting this together!!
8:58 squirrel
Being able to plug into the dock to run the reefer off of shore power too would be useful
I appreciate the blue collar, common sense approach of your company. I look forward to seeing your trucks in the field. Thanks.
This is one of the few companies that has their ducks in a row. This is the way you do it, and other companies should take note.
The content is just wonderful! I hope it never stops and I hope it keeps growing! The truck is cool and all but this is turning into a full blown RUclips show!
that squirrel stole the show at 8:57 xD
Cannot wait to see the production trucks.
Chase, I appreciate your modesty in sharing the credit for getting the Truck to this point. it's true it wouldn't have made it to this point without all their help, but it's also a FACT that if it were not for your leadership....there wouldn't have even been a Karl.
You can be proud of what you have accomplished and I'm certain your parents are so very proud of you.
Keep up the great work and applying Common Sense to everything you do.... That is why Edison Motors will be such a success in the long run.
I just wish I had the opportunity to invest in your company/project as the ground floor. Looking forward to buying Edison Motors shares in the future under your leadership.
I am so proud of you and your amazing team.......man if I could be a part of this let me know. Just pure Canadian Pride here, nothing else. Keep going and I wish you all the success in the world!!!!!
Love what you guys do, Wish I didn't live 7 000 km on the other side of the Atlantic or I would definitely come help out with both software and hardware knowledge. One thing that popped in to my head just now, looking at your videos. The diesel generator will cool off in between runs I guess, however, could it be possible to use the heat from the battery cooling system during the engines off time, even though it is not as hot as the engines working temperature, just to be a bit more gentle to the engine and possibly increase the life span. I have not given it a thorough thought yet but it just popped in my head and I figured someone could argue against me and see where the thought might lead :) And yes, I know the work needed to do this probably isn't worth it.
Can't wait for the ATS mod. The whisper of an Edison tow truck is amazing. Been sneaking in Edison heavy wrecker comments on Insta 😂
A lot to be proud of! Way to be Edison! 🇨🇦
Love to see history in action! Thank you so much for being willing to dig in and do the work.
I dont work in the trucking industry and likely never will, but if yall ever make a conversion kit for old '80s pickups, ill be one of the first customers. Keep up the awesome work!
Squirrel !!!
I’m so excited for Edison Motors
You guys are starting off sooo strong i cant wait to see you guys ten years from now .
Awesome job team!! You have the correct idea of not locking yourself into a rigid build calendar
I'm proud of what you folks accomplished, despite the way this countries being ran, you managed to start a buisness of the future, while keeping it retro fit, eliminating waste, while keeping the timeless nestalgia of the trucks of the past, encouraging the recycling of retired trucks, while at the same time implementing technology of the future. At the same time keeping folks inspired to build new ideas, execute them with determination, keep it up. Grampa was a long truck driver too. It's neat to see the vehicals restored, rebuilt for today's leading markets.
- spending one's own money is a lotdifferent to the "showboaters" spending other people's money - stay real, don't start on one's own "dreams" before beconing cashflow positive - good work guys - the solar reefer is a great project - hopefully the whole solar kit lasts the duration I have played with solar for RVs etc....
Absolutely love what you're doing! Keep it up guys we're all here to watch you succeed.
It’s so cool to watch you and Edison grow and thrive!
I've said for years that the only way electric works for trucks is hybrid. My need for a truck is fully served by my F250, which i use on the farm and to pull our travel trailer, but i'm glad you guys are starting big. Kepp up the great work
Meritor is going to regret not working with you on this for sure. You are farther along than anyone in the industry in bringing diesel electric to the market.
Been awesome to watch along this whole process from Carl to today.
Im really surprised this channel doesnt get way more views. So much good information and so many cool things happening
Chase you even had the chip munk paying attention
Well done, Great effort! Love the work for truckers. The new trucks are well you know. Their reliability is gone. Which cost everyone more money as it has to be passed on to the consumer.
I'm so proud of you guys
It's been a crazy year. You guys have truly been putting in the work. I'm excited to see Edison motors retrofit and other options come.
I like how a squirrel came to listen to the recap 9:23
I am so excited for you guys. You deserve all the success you’ll inevitably see.
It would be awesome if you could lease a truck by the week or month. To get ppl interested in buying. Surely someone owns the old diesel to press cab parts for older trucks, it would be awesome if you could get those for a 70''s-80's Pete, or KW, can just modify it slightly, maybe put large windows in the bottom of the doors,a flat roof and large sleeper. Of course a Edison nose, maybe slightly different fenders for a Long haul model, getting the cab parts stamped should not be too expensive, the dies will be a cost up front, then a cab maybe $150-$200, each, then assembly, 18 gauge steel, a alloy with nickel maybe, basically a low grade stainless, to prevent rust , and the frame may be possible to only double rail at the axels, being there is no tq twisting from the engine, the 5th wheel, and the axels twisting, with a slight load between the front and rear axels! Just bulky x members at the double/ single line, and in the rear doubled area, Soo interested in seeing what the future has for you guys!! ✌️😎👍
You guys work ethic is amazing! Congrats on all your success now, and in the future
Truly amazing what your team has accomplished in only one year! 👍
Love seeing the progress, fellas🎉
Have yall reached out to Waste Connections in Canada or USA for the Trash business?
That would be a good idea. They do a lot with CNG trucks near me, just noticed a 100% electric city bus today i hadnt seen before too.
You should make a list of people who let you down and why because it would be fun to see them cry one you made it!
At some point, Edison Motors should team up with First Mode in Seattle... They're developing fuel cells for the behemoth dump trucks for the mining industry. Seems like a fuel cell for hybrid logging trucks would be a natural partnership.
Super damn proud of what you have accomplished over the last year! Amazing amazing work and a shining example of perseverance and agility in the face of adversity.
Amazing
Good hearing how this whole thing has come together!! If you guys have listened to Musk talk to Sandy Munro he emphasizes how difficult it is to transition from a prototype to production so best of luck to you guys!!! It was fun seeing the celebrity guest appearances on this episode !!
Love it, keep it up!
Thanks!
Thank You!
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This mans blue jeans are dirty, a true entrepreneur
You guys are so smart with the reefer trailer projects And the other passion projects. There is no moss growing anywhere. On you all. The light plants also. I will be contributing. Do you still need the beer and pizza support ? I will add to that also. You make me 😊. So proud to be a Canadian.
I want a pickup like this for my farm. Many folks have ideas few implement them. Great job
So proud of you guys for the accomplishments you've made ❤️🎉, makes me proud to be Canadian 🇨🇦keep up the great work, I'll be following until the end 🏁
Booked my flight to Vancouver, will most definitely be coming by the show.
Mobile Solar Systems can do wonders for range extension
Congrats!
Great work keep it up
Love it, should call you Ehlon Moosk 😂 you guys rock man this is exciting! And I never plan to drive a logging truck lol
-fark this is amazing - honestly since day one minds world wide have been blown - you and your team honestly make me miss canada
Mate I have one question ….?
what’s your tonnage allowance -
Is it 40t - 60t rated? up to 100-t for float work ect ect -
or are we going big - Will we ever see a Edison ROAD TRAIN ?
What you're doing is awesome man. Cant wait to spot an edison on the road near me.
You guys certainly have a lot of good ideas, but the most important thing is that you’re putting your money where your mouth is, and actually producing a product and not just being a “lip service” startup. Good on you guys.
Also, there needs to be a flannel on the merch store. Come onnn! Canada eh!
and you're describing reasons why engineers are different than mechanics. this supply chain stuff we have to dal with and figure out every product.
Congratulations
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9:25
FURRY WOODLAND CREATURE!
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You guys are awesome though it's really awesome to see your truck come to reality like it did
I started looking for this comment the moment I saw it, look at him bounce heheh
Good work 👏 keep on hitting 💪 out of the park
Your work is convincing!
Can’t wait to buy shares in your company
I will be tagging you guys in some gameplay videos of the snowrunner mod on the 8th 👍 Epic year gents 🇨🇦🇨🇦
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9:00 you got a friend 😝
Yahoo 😍 Canada Proud 👏 Canada 🇨🇦 💙
I been watching your channel for a while now and I love what you’re doing and think it’s a great idea I believe car company should be looking into doing the same kind of thing for 4WD instead of a full EV here in Australia you’re go 100’s of Kilometres without a fuel stop not to mention a EV charging station and by going diesel electric and range increase is insane.could Drive around town off phone batteries and having the diesel engine to charge the batteries on the bigger drive being able to charge on the go instead of seating around for hours. That was a great idea
I hope Meritor comes around for you guys. I can understand why they wouldn’t want to sell to re fitters or very small manufacturers. It’s hard to sell and offer service to very small numbers. They are selling to scale it’s really the only way for them? Good luck guys!
I wonder if there's a way to also run a cable from the truck to a low loader with Cat E dozer or excavator if the trucks battery is full when using regenerative breaking as to help charge the equipment between job sites as opposed to discharging it as heat.
Awesome 👍.. congrats and I'll keep following so my dreams my get there too.
I would love a full video of the process you took to figure out your HP requirements, voltage and amperage conversions like from batteries to motors, the like. But then, I’m boring like that!😂 I look forward to what you have coming in the future!
Awesome 👍😎.
Wish I had a service van with this tech.
Most impressed love the updating the old classic tks put 50,000 lbs on that thing bring it to wva and run it up and down the hills for 14 hrs a day see how it does ?
9:06 squirrel!
I'm hyped for the ats and snow runner mods. Hell yeah!
12:29 did you say 12 hours in a row reading regulatory paperwork ad nauseam? I’m sold! I’ll apply for that job.
I wish I could come work for you guys! This is the type of business I want to be a part of.
I'm supper interested in what you're doing. Look forward to your videos.
Lmao these stupid Silicon Valley companies taking 5+ years to make a non working prototype and here’s Edison motors having a production truck done in under a year. No BS, no fake prototype, just honest hard work. Fucking legends
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I'm new to seeing this truck. It seems incredible. I am not a fan of EV's in general but this seems like a great compromise. My question is why use an AC 4 pole generator and convert to DC for the motors? Why not use something like a very large alternator or DC generator to charge the battery bank and use the truck like a true hybrid? You could probably even keep the regenerative braking for more efficiency in mountainous terrain. I love what you guys are doing, keep up the good work!
Once you guys start getting these trucks in production the biggest headache will be the logistics of supplies. I'm wondering if you're going to have an excess supply stock on hand or do the "just in time" supply chain?
I'd say that procurement/supply of stock will grow with the company. The more trucks they're building at a time, the more stock they can afford to keep on hand.