@@CampGareth Nope. 🙂Matching the voice is normal for AI. Isn't it a wonder that in post production you can make yourself speak many languages you can't speak in real life? 😀
Was really pleased to hear that the Scania trucks use NorthVolt batteries. I didn't know that, and with all the bad press NorthVolt is getting it is good to see something positive.
@@carholic-sz3qv Cancelling a project and laying off about 2000 worker and apparently struggling financially. The article MAY have had an anti-EV bias, but wasn't from a regular or obvious biased source.
_Made in Germany_ became famous because German engineering solved pretty any trouble. But now companies from Asia manage to take over with _quick and dirty_ solutions. Do innovation from far east beats traditional German (over-) engineering now? ruclips.net/video/lH8DewDHtiM/видео.html *_Fail fast, learn faster_* is an Asian (?) mindsetting that brings vehicles to us who are similar to "green bananas"; they let ripen their products *after* selling them to us.
Great video.... Really appreciate the English voice over.. And that you give both Kilometer and Miles. Helps us older folks understand.. and also.. maybe we slowly pick up in our old brains what a kilometer is... without thinking about it. Looking forward to seeing the Iveco truck next time.
Lieber Tobias, vielen Dank für den hervorragenden Inhalt und die Qualität deiner Erzählungen. Ich schätze deine Arbeit sehr und teile hier in Brasilien deine Erfahrungen, da wir eine der größten Lkw-Flotten der Welt und eine Energie-Matrix haben, die zu 94 % aus erneuerbaren Quellen stammt. Viele Grüße von einem Kollegen aus dem Bereich Ladeinfrastruktur und Elektromobilität in Brasilien. Vielleicht sehen wir uns ja auf der EVS ;) Ein herzlicher Gruß aus Brasilien!
Watched every video upon discovering your channel. Thanks for taking us along for the E-drive adventure. I find it exciting discovering new charging stops on old routes driven for decades. Tschüss petrol stations.
Really enjoying your videos. As a truck driver in Australia, it's nice to see what it's like for truck drivers around the world, and more so for EV trucks in real world use. Sadly, the infrastructure in Australia is nowhere near capable of supporting electric trucks, it's barely good enough for cars. Too much oil/coal/gas money in politics to move things along.
Maybe a diesel-electric truck could be a viable alternative for you guys downunder. Like the one Edison Motors has built and is currently testing. They're here on RUclips as well.
@@Uncle_Jenny Properly long haul electric trucking will probably not ever really be a thing here for a variety of factors. In the more densely populated parts of the country where distance between major population centres is in the 300 to 500km range keeping the truck charged wouldn't be an issue if the infrastructure is there but the reduction in payload would be a problem. Once you get outside of the more densely populated areas, you just aren't going to have the range. Diesel wins. Assuming it ever happens short haul is where the action would be in Australia.
@@retrozmachine1189 I was talking about a diesel-electric truck, not a fully electric one. They actually have a diesel generator to power an electric drive train and charge the batteries. These are also much more efficient in terms of fuel consumption and co2-emissions. Please check them out. Their channel is called edisonmotors.
17:00 You got me. 😀 Couple years back, when chargers of CEZ operator in Czechia were either free or paid on small monthly subscription (and not by the energy consumed) it happened several times to me that I left the site and returned to car that was not charging. People were using the emergency switch on the charger to end the session and trying to take the cable (to charge their car), not knowing, that my car, a VW eGolf will only unlock the cable at the time the car is unlocked via remote. So they only end my session in the process. This is really rude and sometimes even illegal. Funny thing, after all the crazyniess with electricity prices after 2022, it never happened to me since. Also the public chargers are completely free of cars nowadays.
Trailer with battery is a good idea, makes it much easier to have a charging station at a loading dock where you can plug in without a really long cable.
As someone who WROTE logistics software for a big piece of their career (even when I technically shouldn't have even BEEN writing code), I laughed out loud at the "who wrote this code" comment. THIS is exactly the problem - in order to write accounting software you NEED to know accounting at LEAST to the level of the person you expect to USE your software. Either as the analyst writing the specs or the person writing the code. And this is why I have very high hopes for Edison Motors - they KNOW trucking and will do a much better job than hiring fresh MIT graduates (who KNOW everything, or at least think they do - a very common affliction with us IT grads). Also, as a veteran of the CPG industry it is more common for grocery and GM loads to "weight out" than "cube out" (I don't know the official terms) but there are lots of use cases where this is reversed.
Thanks for making these videos! These are so important to create awareness for charging companies to accomodate trucks. Love the giggling when accelerating in the Iveco. Would be nice to see it pulling ahead of some Golf GTI.
Hi from the UK! We’re still here, even if ‘euronews’ has deleted us from their maps (no really they have). The thing I notice about electric vehicles and regenerative braking is, while in theory the huge heavy mass of trucks or semi or lorries, is a lot of energy to get going, the fact is, there’s also massive regen braking to benefit from. And the axle on the trailer getting drive, is going to help stop strandings on icy roads. We’ll get there. Take care all, the future can be much better.
Simply check wikipedia about 'euronews' and you might get an idea about why.... We know you are still there. I personally would like you being back in the EU.
Great video ! Love the intro and the honest approach to how an electric truck actually works, by real people in the real world. Keyboard warriors go home 😂
Another great video! I really like the edits of the voice-over where the original reaction is kept and then nicely transitions to the voice-over. The choice of moments, frequency of it, and how it's done is all really good.
I didn't know German towel reservations was still a thing! For those who don't know, back in the '70s and early '80s, Germans were the scourge of all mediterranean charter destinations, going down to the pool/beach way early in the morning with their towels and claimed deck chairs, then went back up to the hotel to...sleep more? I dunno what. Then they'd mosey on down by ten, eleven AM, still expecting for "their" towel-adorned deck chairs to be there, unmolested. And when they found out their towels had been moved, they weren't happy about it at all! :D lol Sorry Germans, meaning no offense. We all have our quirks. Your sausages are the friggin boss! (And the Austrians, too. :))
Superb videos...very in-depth, real-world experience. Interested to see how the IVECO performs. As an aside, you would be great candidates for testing out the Tesla Semi, when/if you can get hold of one. If I was still driving, I'd be very keen to try it out.
Not allowed in Europe. Does not meet regulations. Furthermore it is far too long with a standard trailer attached. There are very good reasons why the driver sits above the engine, not behind it in Europe.
@@rogerphelps9939 Really? From Jan Juuricas - “Tesla Semi is already fully ready for European roads as it is now. You might’ve noticed the trucks in Europe are… boxy, compared to the US trucks. That actually comes from the regulation for length, and thus the truck makers need to basically “stack the people on top of the engine”, aka produce cabovers. The length is what has been cited as #1 reason by everyone on why Tesla cannot enter the European market with their current design - regulations on length. Two separate team members however confirmed to me when I asked: Tesla only had to make a bunch of minor changes to details (modify wheel covers, signal lights etc) to make the truck fit for roads in Europe. And they did not need to change the cab design. This comes as some new EU regulation change allows for more length if the cab is more aerodynamic. I haven’t been able to confirm if there were any changes in width (I believe the Semi is 2.6m, while regulation requires 2.55m), and am yet to look up the specific allowance on aerodynamic cab, although I’ve now heard the same from other sources. The team member who drove me around in the Semi said they call this build the European Development Platform.”
I hear so much bad news about Germany and the refusal of the oem vehicle manufacturers not producing good evs and starting to go out of business. But seeing your videos it shows that progressiveness is alive and well in Germany.
Northvolt in Sweden is in big trouble sadly, people gotten sick and I think people may have died there, seem to be awefully managed.... and this is not coming from an ANTI Electric troll, I'm here because I believe in this tech and I'm a big truck enthusiast, I was actually going to school to become a truck driver when I was younger, it did not pan out sadly, but yeah... I really hope their problems wont cause issues for Scania and Volvo's efforts, but I fear it will. Not sure what will come of the Northvolt problems and I'm not sure if they only have one factory or several... I'm from Sweden my self. I'm eagerly waiting for ETS2 and ATS to have BEV trucks, ETS2 technically do but they are limited to short quick jobs only, cant buy them yet. Love your content, keep it up!
Hi Solar panel on roof of trailer of trailer is good too, but i think will not create alot of energy. It is lighter then battery in trailer and easy to connect to truck
Did Scania say what the non-usable 25% of battery capacity is used for? It seems a very high margin of spare cells, so I guess there is something else involved here. Also thank you for doing the voice-over English videos. I follow the german channel but it's a bit too fast for my skill level to follow completely and the generated subtitles are delayed and a bit lacking.
There's so much free space along highways, why not put chargers beside them with easy access for trucks without any tight corners, just drive in, drive out. But I also believe the experiments with charging while driving could be a great option, like an electrical train is powered.
Thank you for posting. I still remain sceptical about EV , but I can see how it might work. Perhaps it could be more suitable for trucks where there are more opportunities to recharge due to driving breaks and loading. Large warehouses used by supermarkets could use solar on their roofs to top up the trucks while being unloaded. Also trucks due to their weight and high mileage would reduce pollution and fossil fuel burn at a higher rate than cars. Looking forward to another of your excellent vlogs.
Great point actually, all those warehouse roofs make great solar panel space. If these warehouses and factories facilitate charging on location, there is little down time afterwards.
As electric cars and trucks become more widely used I am interest what it will do for road wear. The stress on the road caused by a vehicle increases in proportion to the fourth power of its axle load, so with EV's being heavier than traditional vehicles (except when both loaded to the max legal, only that is then the EV's carrying less cargo). The increased weight also means more wear on tires, suspension components and so on. Not really a problem with cars except the tires, but it may be something with the trucks doing many many miles. A quick illustration of what the power of four means, here is a couple of examples. Lets say an EV truck weighs 8 tons and it is 2 tons more than a traditional one, both have two axles, so on average 33% more weight per axle with the EV. The road stress is then increased by 1.33 to the power of four ie. 1.33*1.33*1.33*1.33 =3.13 times that of the traditional truck. So not a insignificant amount. Another example. Lets say we look at a car, in ICE form it was 1.6 tons and in EV version it is 2.5 tons, that is an increase of 56% in weight, so the road stress is increased by 1.56*1.56*1.56*1.56=5.95 times. No wonder that EV owners spend more on tires. If you compare the wear caused by a big truck and a car, the difference is 10.000 times if the big truck is ten times heavier than the car (given they have the same number of axles).
@@Gazer75 Yes and any truck at the limit puts the same stress on the roads. Only most trucks rarely run with max load and even those that do run without load half the time, so the base weight of the vehicle matters a great deal, plus also if there is a load that takes a truck to the weight limit then the EV one will be carrying less actual load. I'm not saying that EV doesn't have upsides, but all that extra weight matters only some effects are not seen from day (except where having many cars together overload infrastructure weight capacity). I think it would make more sense if the world was moving to using hydrogen or some other non-fossil fuel. It would mean vehicles with weights like the ones we know from classic ICE vehicles and not load times, but refueling like we know it also.
@@hughwilson2219 When it comes to road wear what matters is the axle weights plus of course the number of axles. Double the number of axles on a rig, then if the load is evenly distributed you have reduced the wear to 1/8.
I was wondering how long before they put in drive axles on the trailer. Using electric motors it should be an easy addition. For areas where you have mountains and snow conditions it should be a big help.
Modern video editors give an option to cut away just voice to keep noise sounds use it to keep it more realistic:)) and may be leave a bit of original German speech. Thanks!
Why don’t u use a roaming charge card for charging instead of creating an account with all the charge point operators? Like a fuel card for fuel trucks… Much easier billing / administration and often you’ll get more attractive pricing.
@ well my Tesla cars have both even if the cameras on the side are not a replacement for the mirrors they still work pretty well. Maybe different on a truck ?
It is tricky but as long as you spend some time with the camera mirrors you don't have a problem. I got used with them in a week, now when I have another lorry with normal mirrors I miss them some times.
Thanks for very informative video. What are usual prices of charging in Germany? What will be projected electricity generation of your solar installation at your depot?
Hi @TeslaKägi soweit ich das sehe ist das hier die Kurzversion von seinem deutschen Video #5 von vor ca. 2 Monaten. Suche mal nach "War Fernverkehr mit dem E-Truck doch ein Fehler" da solltest du es finden können 🤞
Filling up the the bit in the middle, wouldn’t work if you have to pass over hump-backed-bridge or manoeuvre over/between great changes in gradients. So you wouldn’t be able to drive many of the roads in north or south Wales, Cumbria, Scotland, Derbyshire, coastal routes around Cornwall or anywhere where a logging truck needs to go.
@@TurkishHeavy Solar panels are not powerful enough to power a truck or charge the batteries much. A 1.7m2 panel used on house roofs will give roughly 300Wp, but they are also kind of heavy. Panels mounted on the roof of a trailer would need to be thin and light. So they would be much weaker. The actual output of a panel is well below its rated peak due to angle of the sun, clouds and so on. A truck that uses 700-1000 Wh/km on average to move would need a powerful set of panels. The extra weight of the panels and electronics would also offset the gains. Better to fit a drive axe on the trailer and add some batteries. I believe there are some refer trailers with solar to help run the refrigerator unit.
@@TurkishHeavy But it will probably be negated by the extra weight of the panels and other needed electronics. The extra cost will also not help. What about at night and in bad weather? Then you're just hauling dead weight that don't do much.
Really informative, but please focus on driving if you're on the road. You could just as easily show all the different menus and options at a parking lot. Just saying.
@peter_meyer Factory is under construction, this 1st run was individually assembled and handed over to 2 customers in the US for evaluation. Is there a problem with that approach?
No problem with those huge batteries and their equally huge capacity buffer. Also trucks now use mostly LFP chemistry, which doesn't suffer as much as NMC when charged to 100%. (Eg. Tesla even _recommends_ to regularly charge to 100% for their Chinese LFP models.)
Ivecos, the worst trucks in the fleet where I work, and only a several years old - except they have good engines. My regular truck is the only Mercedes they have, a 2006 Actros, even ten years older it is much better truck!
The world does NOT need faster trucks,!!! The faster they pull up, the more people will get under the truck and die...Seen it many times with vans and cars, and one truck almost had me just because he was fast and could not see me. Just like the E-cars and -trucks, make them slower at the start and give the more miles to cover with one load of electricity. THAT would be cool and good for everybody. Time that this industry gets some RULES laid upon them!!!
They should stop putting batteries on these chassis. A proper EV needs a clean, brand new platform to fully utilize electricity. Also they should be designed like Tesla Semi to achieve better efficiency. You are talking about trailers with built in batteries. Just like you said; it eats your precious load capacity because the semi is not designed to accommodate those batteries efficiently. All regulations should be re-written according to commercial vehicles from scratch. Simple as that. These semis aren't efficient at all. Period.
ACC TIP : When it's 30 degrees outside and you set airconditioning to 16, you will immediately freeze the fluids. You have to start with outside minus 5 degrees.
I enjoy your videos, thank you for the English voice overs.
I agree!
It's AI generated
@@nordensueden Way too natural and matches his German voice. This is a bilingual person who can't speak two languages at once so dubs himself later.
@@nordensueden Doesn't bother me at all.
@@CampGareth Nope. 🙂Matching the voice is normal for AI. Isn't it a wonder that in post production you can make yourself speak many languages you can't speak in real life? 😀
Was really pleased to hear that the Scania trucks use NorthVolt batteries. I didn't know that, and with all the bad press NorthVolt is getting it is good to see something positive.
Both Swedish and (partially) owned by VW.
what bad press about northvolt?
@@carholic-sz3qv They have problems scaling up production.
@@carholic-sz3qv Cancelling a project and laying off about 2000 worker and apparently struggling financially. The article MAY have had an anti-EV bias, but wasn't from a regular or obvious biased source.
@@capnkirk5528due to the drag that vested interests, oil, are putting on the necessary and obvious move to electrify
"They say it is supposed to come with a software update, which seems to be the standard phrase these days."
Oh, God! That is so true.
Exactly!
_Made in Germany_ became famous because German engineering solved pretty any trouble. But now companies from Asia manage to take over with _quick and dirty_ solutions. Do innovation from far east beats traditional German (over-) engineering now?
ruclips.net/video/lH8DewDHtiM/видео.html
*_Fail fast, learn faster_* is an Asian (?) mindsetting that brings vehicles to us who are similar to "green bananas"; they let ripen their products *after* selling them to us.
the modern version of 'the cheque is in the mail'.
Love your content. There is nothing like it on RUclips.
Great video.... Really appreciate the English voice over.. And that you give both Kilometer and Miles. Helps us older folks understand.. and also.. maybe we slowly pick up in our old brains what a kilometer is... without thinking about it.
Looking forward to seeing the Iveco truck next time.
10 kms = 6 miles
@@hughwilson2219 6.2 miles
Thanks for English channel 🤝👍🤗🤓🚒⚡️
Lieber Tobias, vielen Dank für den hervorragenden Inhalt und die Qualität deiner Erzählungen. Ich schätze deine Arbeit sehr und teile hier in Brasilien deine Erfahrungen, da wir eine der größten Lkw-Flotten der Welt und eine Energie-Matrix haben, die zu 94 % aus erneuerbaren Quellen stammt.
Viele Grüße von einem Kollegen aus dem Bereich Ladeinfrastruktur und Elektromobilität in Brasilien. Vielleicht sehen wir uns ja auf der EVS ;)
Ein herzlicher Gruß aus Brasilien!
Watched every video upon discovering your channel. Thanks for taking us along for the E-drive adventure. I find it exciting discovering new charging stops on old routes driven for decades. Tschüss petrol stations.
Thank you for sharing your e-Trucks experiences! 🚛⚡️🔋
Super clear explanation of all aspects of your EV journey. Thanks
Greetings from Ontario, Canada! I really enjoy your stories.
Liferafts.. he read your comment, captain!
Yes, it’s nice to know he reads some of the comments!
Keep the Videos coming! Greetings from Norway😊
watching with great interest from australia-
thank you 🇦🇺
Really enjoying your videos. As a truck driver in Australia, it's nice to see what it's like for truck drivers around the world, and more so for EV trucks in real world use.
Sadly, the infrastructure in Australia is nowhere near capable of supporting electric trucks, it's barely good enough for cars. Too much oil/coal/gas money in politics to move things along.
Maybe a diesel-electric truck could be a viable alternative for you guys downunder. Like the one Edison Motors has built and is currently testing. They're here on RUclips as well.
@@Uncle_Jenny Properly long haul electric trucking will probably not ever really be a thing here for a variety of factors. In the more densely populated parts of the country where distance between major population centres is in the 300 to 500km range keeping the truck charged wouldn't be an issue if the infrastructure is there but the reduction in payload would be a problem. Once you get outside of the more densely populated areas, you just aren't going to have the range. Diesel wins. Assuming it ever happens short haul is where the action would be in Australia.
@@retrozmachine1189 I was talking about a diesel-electric truck, not a fully electric one. They actually have a diesel generator to power an electric drive train and charge the batteries. These are also much more efficient in terms of fuel consumption and co2-emissions. Please check them out. Their channel is called edisonmotors.
In Texas/US too, no etrucks as they're pushing oil/pollution
17:00 You got me. 😀
Couple years back, when chargers of CEZ operator in Czechia were either free or paid on small monthly subscription (and not by the energy consumed) it happened several times to me that I left the site and returned to car that was not charging. People were using the emergency switch on the charger to end the session and trying to take the cable (to charge their car), not knowing, that my car, a VW eGolf will only unlock the cable at the time the car is unlocked via remote. So they only end my session in the process. This is really rude and sometimes even illegal. Funny thing, after all the crazyniess with electricity prices after 2022, it never happened to me since. Also the public chargers are completely free of cars nowadays.
Trailer with battery is a good idea, makes it much easier to have a charging station at a loading dock where you can plug in without a really long cable.
As someone who WROTE logistics software for a big piece of their career (even when I technically shouldn't have even BEEN writing code), I laughed out loud at the "who wrote this code" comment. THIS is exactly the problem - in order to write accounting software you NEED to know accounting at LEAST to the level of the person you expect to USE your software. Either as the analyst writing the specs or the person writing the code.
And this is why I have very high hopes for Edison Motors - they KNOW trucking and will do a much better job than hiring fresh MIT graduates (who KNOW everything, or at least think they do - a very common affliction with us IT grads).
Also, as a veteran of the CPG industry it is more common for grocery and GM loads to "weight out" than "cube out" (I don't know the official terms) but there are lots of use cases where this is reversed.
If it is a gas it would either reach maximum pressure or maximum weight.
Thanks for making these videos! These are so important to create awareness for charging companies to accomodate trucks. Love the giggling when accelerating in the Iveco. Would be nice to see it pulling ahead of some Golf GTI.
The co-pilot is ready
😀
Hi from the UK! We’re still here, even if ‘euronews’ has deleted us from their maps (no really they have). The thing I notice about electric vehicles and regenerative braking is, while in theory the huge heavy mass of trucks or semi or lorries, is a lot of energy to get going, the fact is, there’s also massive regen braking to benefit from. And the axle on the trailer getting drive, is going to help stop strandings on icy roads. We’ll get there. Take care all, the future can be much better.
Simply check wikipedia about 'euronews' and you might get an idea about why....
We know you are still there.
I personally would like you being back in the EU.
Great video ! Love the intro and the honest approach to how an electric truck actually works, by real people in the real world.
Keyboard warriors go home 😂
Another great video! I really like the edits of the voice-over where the original reaction is kept and then nicely transitions to the voice-over. The choice of moments, frequency of it, and how it's done is all really good.
Thanks for sharing 🇳🇱🌷
Great video
perfekt für die Mittagspause :)
Nice video! Thanks for the English voice over👍
I didn't know German towel reservations was still a thing! For those who don't know, back in the '70s and early '80s, Germans were the scourge of all mediterranean charter destinations, going down to the pool/beach way early in the morning with their towels and claimed deck chairs, then went back up to the hotel to...sleep more? I dunno what. Then they'd mosey on down by ten, eleven AM, still expecting for "their" towel-adorned deck chairs to be there, unmolested. And when they found out their towels had been moved, they weren't happy about it at all! :D
lol Sorry Germans, meaning no offense. We all have our quirks. Your sausages are the friggin boss! (And the Austrians, too. :))
Best tip 😂 at 17:10
Superb videos...very in-depth, real-world experience. Interested to see how the IVECO performs.
As an aside, you would be great candidates for testing out the Tesla Semi, when/if you can get hold of one. If I was still driving, I'd be very keen to try it out.
Not allowed in Europe. Does not meet regulations. Furthermore it is far too long with a standard trailer attached. There are very good reasons why the driver sits above the engine, not behind it in Europe.
@@rogerphelps9939 Really?
From Jan Juuricas -
“Tesla Semi is already fully ready for European roads as it is now. You might’ve noticed the trucks in Europe are… boxy, compared to the US trucks. That actually comes from the regulation for length, and thus the truck makers need to basically “stack the people on top of the engine”, aka produce cabovers.
The length is what has been cited as #1 reason by everyone on why Tesla cannot enter the European market with their current design - regulations on length. Two separate team members however confirmed to me when I asked: Tesla only had to make a bunch of minor changes to details (modify wheel covers, signal lights etc) to make the truck fit for roads in Europe. And they did not need to change the cab design.
This comes as some new EU regulation change allows for more length if the cab is more aerodynamic. I haven’t been able to confirm if there were any changes in width (I believe the Semi is 2.6m, while regulation requires 2.55m), and am yet to look up the specific allowance on aerodynamic cab, although I’ve now heard the same from other sources.
The team member who drove me around in the Semi said they call this build the European Development Platform.”
I don't know how NJ pulled it off, but I love that they've managed to get it onto the license places. LER NJ XXX.
Great episode,go ahead!!!
no spoilers in intro please!
Agreed, a bit confusing as well 🙏
Have heard of one rv trailer kitted out with battery assist plus solar panels, not cheap of course!
I hear so much bad news about Germany and the refusal of the oem vehicle manufacturers not producing good evs and starting to go out of business. But seeing your videos it shows that progressiveness is alive and well in Germany.
Unfortunately neither Scania nor Iveco is German. We have the Mercedes e-Actros which doesn't seem so popular and probably really expensive.
@@kl1nk0r Iveco trucks are made in Ulm in Germany.
Only 30° Celsius! I’m useless once it goes over 21°!
i found your channel yesterday. Man you are living my dream! I am still driving dirty diesel trucks with road rangers (puke emoji)
7:03 Cool, even Stephan did a voice-over. Well done!
It's AI 🤫
@@Jannik_1020how do you know? People also commented that Tobias' voice is AI but it definitely sounds like him and he has a German accent.
Yeah I don't think it's AI
@@thankyouforyourcompliance7386 it's AI. There is many software that uses the "original" voice to do the translation
@@thankyouforyourcompliance7386 search for "Rask AI" for example
Northvolt in Sweden is in big trouble sadly, people gotten sick and I think people may have died there, seem to be awefully managed.... and this is not coming from an ANTI Electric troll, I'm here because I believe in this tech and I'm a big truck enthusiast, I was actually going to school to become a truck driver when I was younger, it did not pan out sadly, but yeah...
I really hope their problems wont cause issues for Scania and Volvo's efforts, but I fear it will. Not sure what will come of the Northvolt problems and I'm not sure if they only have one factory or several... I'm from Sweden my self.
I'm eagerly waiting for ETS2 and ATS to have BEV trucks, ETS2 technically do but they are limited to short quick jobs only, cant buy them yet.
Love your content, keep it up!
Merging into traffic is a breeze.
Hi
Solar panel on roof of trailer of trailer is good too, but i think will not create alot of energy.
It is lighter then battery in trailer and easy to connect to truck
Did Scania say what the non-usable 25% of battery capacity is used for? It seems a very high margin of spare cells, so I guess there is something else involved here.
Also thank you for doing the voice-over English videos. I follow the german channel but it's a bit too fast for my skill level to follow completely and the generated subtitles are delayed and a bit lacking.
Super content. Enjoyed it. Could you also talk more about what an e-axle is?
Night mode is so awesome! I wish I have it in my truck but it seams like American trucks are behind European trucks.
I had "night panel" mode in my SAAB 900 pass car. Great feature.
There's so much free space along highways, why not put chargers beside them with easy access for trucks without any tight corners, just drive in, drive out.
But I also believe the experiments with charging while driving could be a great option, like an electrical train is powered.
Lets see if the Iveco can make the Kassel run in less than 12 parsecs
Thank you for posting. I still remain sceptical about EV , but I can see how it might work.
Perhaps it could be more suitable for trucks where there are more opportunities to recharge due to driving breaks and loading. Large warehouses used by supermarkets could use solar on their roofs to top up the trucks while being unloaded.
Also trucks due to their weight and high mileage would reduce pollution and fossil fuel burn at a higher rate than cars.
Looking forward to another of your excellent vlogs.
The electrification of commercial vehicles is way more important than cars. They produce much more emissions
@@hughmarcus1You made the point better than I did.😊
@@NurlechaffeurI liked that whilst you are or maybe were sceptical you are also open minded. 😊
Great point actually, all those warehouse roofs make great solar panel space. If these warehouses and factories facilitate charging on location, there is little down time afterwards.
As electric cars and trucks become more widely used I am interest what it will do for road wear.
The stress on the road caused by a vehicle increases in proportion to the fourth power of its axle load, so with EV's being heavier than traditional vehicles (except when both loaded to the max legal, only that is then the EV's carrying less cargo).
The increased weight also means more wear on tires, suspension components and so on. Not really a problem with cars except the tires, but it may be something with the trucks doing many many miles.
A quick illustration of what the power of four means, here is a couple of examples.
Lets say an EV truck weighs 8 tons and it is 2 tons more than a traditional one, both have two axles, so on average 33% more weight per axle with the EV. The road stress is then increased by 1.33 to the power of four ie. 1.33*1.33*1.33*1.33 =3.13 times that of the traditional truck. So not a insignificant amount.
Another example. Lets say we look at a car, in ICE form it was 1.6 tons and in EV version it is 2.5 tons, that is an increase of 56% in weight, so the road stress is increased by 1.56*1.56*1.56*1.56=5.95 times. No wonder that EV owners spend more on tires.
If you compare the wear caused by a big truck and a car, the difference is 10.000 times if the big truck is ten times heavier than the car (given they have the same number of axles).
AFAIK electric trucks are still limited to the same max weight as a fossil one.
@@Gazer75 Yes and any truck at the limit puts the same stress on the roads.
Only most trucks rarely run with max load and even those that do run without load half the time, so the base weight of the vehicle matters a great deal, plus also if there is a load that takes a truck to the weight limit then the EV one will be carrying less actual load.
I'm not saying that EV doesn't have upsides, but all that extra weight matters only some effects are not seen from day (except where having many cars together overload infrastructure weight capacity). I think it would make more sense if the world was moving to using hydrogen or some other non-fossil fuel. It would mean vehicles with weights like the ones we know from classic ICE vehicles and not load times, but refueling like we know it also.
In Oz the road trains can weigh over 100 tonnes with bogie drive semi. Tri axles on trailers and dollies.
@@hughwilson2219 When it comes to road wear what matters is the axle weights plus of course the number of axles. Double the number of axles on a rig, then if the load is evenly distributed you have reduced the wear to 1/8.
Just one for the algorithm
I was wondering how long before they put in drive axles on the trailer. Using electric motors it should be an easy addition. For areas where you have mountains and snow conditions it should be a big help.
Interesting, I thought I recognised the AIDAperla. I saw it in Tromsø in 2019. :)
Modern video editors give an option to cut away just voice to keep noise sounds use it to keep it more realistic:)) and may be leave a bit of original German speech. Thanks!
I think people will get the wrong idea but that would be the best plan. 17:40
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Definitely got me lol. I was like.. Huh.. Can you actually do that? And then I laughed when the lock came out
Why don’t u use a roaming charge card for charging instead of creating an account with all the charge point operators?
Like a fuel card for fuel trucks… Much easier billing / administration and often you’ll get more attractive pricing.
Have you seen Edison Motors truck and tech?
@Tobias: Maybe you can make a video about the Krone e-trailer, or even use it!
Danke fur sprechen English English :)
Nice videos!
How long does it take you to unhitch the trailer?
about five minutes
Whenever I have hired Iveco van the gear box has been a bag of spanners
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Sehr gutes Videos. Aber wo finde ich die deutschen Originalvideos?
www.youtube.com/@elektrotrucker
Tobias, is it the camera angle or is steering on the iveco out of alignment? It looks like you’re continuously steering left…
Do you do any driving u north (like scandinavia?)
Germany needs to fix its regulations soon, like right now.
9:23 that looks more like Isuzu NPR cab not mitsubishi.
Love your videos!
Only problem with acc is when you don't notice you been travelling 80 for the last hour should have overtaken them lol
Which is the truck speed limit in most of Europe anyway.
Learn something new… but hopefully the uk will change 90km/h limit to 96km/h since we left the eu now
*There will be updates... "which seems to be the standard phrase these days".*
@electric Trucker - klär uns hier doch mal auf: AI Voice Over, oder hast du es selber manuell eingesprochen ?
Will the IVECO also be painted red?
Nikola Motor 2.0 😂😂😂😂😂
I’m surprised you have physical wing mirrors as they must eat your KMs.
Sprichst du das eigentlich selbst ein oder ist das KI mit deiner Stimme?
Ist eine KI. Kannst du mit fast allen Sprachen machen
Why do they still use side mirrors? So many trucks have switched to cameras.
Have you driven a car with camera mirrors? They are awful things especially if you wear glasses for driving. I suspect most truckers dislike them too
@ well my Tesla cars have both even if the cameras on the side are not a replacement for the mirrors they still work pretty well. Maybe different on a truck ?
It is tricky but as long as you spend some time with the camera mirrors you don't have a problem. I got used with them in a week, now when I have another lorry with normal mirrors I miss them some times.
Thinking acceleration is important is indeed absurd. Like most of life on earth
The paint scheme on that ship is creepy.
Its very obvious to me that the solution is a diesel engine that charges the battery as you drive once you get below say, 20%.
😅 What
The Canadian e-truck is a hybrid with a Cat motor... or can be.
Thanks for very informative video.
What are usual prices of charging in Germany?
What will be projected electricity generation of your solar installation at your depot?
Is the voice from the solar farm person AI (if so, might be good to add a little text on screen when it's an AI voice)
All of the Video is AI Voice. Not just the solar farm Person.
Disclaimer on the AI usage is in the video's description.
Gibt’s die Videos eventuell auch mit Originalton und nicht immer mit diesem seltsamen VoiceOver? 🙏✌️.
Der deutsche Kanal ist ganz unten in der Beschreibung verlinkt. Alternativ kann man auch einfach nach Elektrotrucker suchen
Die Original Videos sind auf dem deutschen Kanal: www.youtube.com/@elektrotrucker
Hi @TeslaKägi soweit ich das sehe ist das hier die Kurzversion von seinem deutschen Video #5 von vor ca. 2 Monaten. Suche mal nach "War Fernverkehr mit dem E-Truck doch ein Fehler" da solltest du es finden können 🤞
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Trucked up!
Filling up the the bit in the middle, wouldn’t work if you have to pass over hump-backed-bridge or manoeuvre over/between great changes in gradients. So you wouldn’t be able to drive many of the roads in north or south Wales, Cumbria, Scotland, Derbyshire, coastal routes around Cornwall or anywhere where a logging truck needs to go.
You do know how big your island is, don’t you? That Iveco manages 500km.
Now race this versus Tesla Semi (top tier has 1500 horsepower....)
Why race it? Try reversing it. Much more interesting for an everyday driver.
Can't solar pannels be put all over the trailer ?
Solar wouldn't power much more than the electronics tbh. Nowhere near enough output to give the main battery a meaningful charge.
@@Gazer75 I was thinking of a truck that can charge in road to reduce the need to stop charging
@@TurkishHeavy Solar panels are not powerful enough to power a truck or charge the batteries much. A 1.7m2 panel used on house roofs will give roughly 300Wp, but they are also kind of heavy. Panels mounted on the roof of a trailer would need to be thin and light. So they would be much weaker. The actual output of a panel is well below its rated peak due to angle of the sun, clouds and so on.
A truck that uses 700-1000 Wh/km on average to move would need a powerful set of panels.
The extra weight of the panels and electronics would also offset the gains.
Better to fit a drive axe on the trailer and add some batteries.
I believe there are some refer trailers with solar to help run the refrigerator unit.
@@Gazer75 at least it will generate energy
@@TurkishHeavy But it will probably be negated by the extra weight of the panels and other needed electronics.
The extra cost will also not help.
What about at night and in bad weather? Then you're just hauling dead weight that don't do much.
Really informative, but please focus on driving if you're on the road. You could just as easily show all the different menus and options at a parking lot. Just saying.
King of etrucks is the Tesla Semi. Du weißt es nur noch nicht 😊.
Wenn sie es endlich bauen können ...
@@tonrotterdam Wird schon seit über 1 Jahr hergestellt und über 100 erfolgreich im Einsatz.
@@moestrei 100 Stück in einem Jahr? Ist das alles?
@peter_meyer Factory is under construction, this 1st run was individually assembled and handed over to 2 customers in the US for evaluation. Is there a problem with that approach?
If possible avoid charging to 100%
No problem with those huge batteries and their equally huge capacity buffer. Also trucks now use mostly LFP chemistry, which doesn't suffer as much as NMC when charged to 100%. (Eg. Tesla even _recommends_ to regularly charge to 100% for their Chinese LFP models.)
Ivecos, the worst trucks in the fleet where I work, and only a several years old - except they have good engines.
My regular truck is the only Mercedes they have, a 2006 Actros, even ten years older it is much better truck!
The world does NOT need faster trucks,!!! The faster they pull up, the more people will get under the truck and die...Seen it many times with vans and cars, and one truck almost had me just because he was fast and could not see me. Just like the E-cars and -trucks, make them slower at the start and give the more miles to cover with one load of electricity. THAT would be cool and good for everybody. Time that this industry gets some RULES laid upon them!!!
They should stop putting batteries on these chassis. A proper EV needs a clean, brand new platform to fully utilize electricity.
Also they should be designed like Tesla Semi to achieve better efficiency. You are talking about trailers with built in batteries. Just like you said; it eats your precious load capacity because the semi is not designed to accommodate those batteries efficiently.
All regulations should be re-written according to commercial vehicles from scratch. Simple as that.
These semis aren't efficient at all. Period.
Automatic thumb down for stupid text all over the screen. That's what CC is for.
Drive an Iwrecko, no thank you
Any facts or just funny games with words
ACC TIP : When it's 30 degrees outside and you set airconditioning to 16, you will immediately freeze the fluids. You have to start with outside minus 5 degrees.