If they make some 4x4, I'm gonna buy one to make working in our massive forest plot easier. Yes our 6x6 ATV does the job almost perfectly but having a heavier and more powerfull vehicule while still being very narrow would be better
Hes definetly a rural canadian. Polite but hes like someone from wyoming. If thry dont like something theyll tell you and if you listen you might learn a thing or two
Sorry, I didn't notice what was going on in the rest of the video - because I'm still hilariously laughing because of that segment with the green mower... 😂😂😂
At $37k for a green EV mower. “The battery will outlive this mower, it’ll last for ten years”. WTF? At $15k more than my comparable commercial diesel mowers I run, I can buy a hell of a lot of fuel and my mowers are still going strong at 10 years old. Not buying into it.
@@biprgriff yeah, cost and longevity really is a sticking point with bev stuff. for home use it makes sense cause you can easily use powertool batteries. but in a commercial setting i can see that being a pain. really just get one singular ev unit and use it only when the rules require it (denver city has mandated all electric equipment for commercial lawn care. kinda stupid to mandate that now and not in 5-10 years when the designs are better)
I'm kinda shocked nobody tried to get him off that mower, good heavens! Okay, if I'm able to get a big plot of land that Mean Green electric mower not only looks amazing but with that kind of get-up-and-go I could also have a ton of fun :D
@@N-M424 might be ... But... It's the just the right size to load and unload things from the ground. Put a pair of side facing tool boxes on and still have a little center space for longer things you can reach from the back.
Wish there was an option for more than just one thumbs up. Several places in this video is where they would be used. Can't wait for the Half Ton conversion to come out. Heavy Half delivery truck. Yes, it will be sometime down the road.
Right to repair and ease of maintenance will be Edison Motors legacy! I'm sure big companies will run with the hybrid ideas, but their beancounters will not be able to let go the priority parts. Good job to you young people for taking back a kicked to the curb market.
It's amazing to watch Chase and his team grow this company and also share their storey. They are very realistic with their goals. Hopefully the rest of the world catches up to Edison Motors! 🙂
That big icebreaker in the drydock is also diesel-electric. They just yanked 3 locomotive engines out of here and put new engines. Dang had I known this was going on and you be there, I come down and shake your hand.
Chace speaks wisdom as far as no “transitional” step to EV’s. The truck components are economical, available, and proven over decades, so don’t mess with them. A lot of the electric systems are also more common, much more so than the OEM’s are trying to put out. Being hybrid, you can choose to use your yard infrastructure, or go long haul, using existing support and facilities for fuel, light maintenance, and simply parking. You are free to embrace change as it comes along, and able to maintain full operation during emergency and disaster situations when you’re literally on your own. This means real world thinking without sacrificing your drivers and your business to the sheer stupidity that is prevalent in the EV space of trucking at the moment. Can’t wait to see Topsy wearing out some tires on the road.
Thank you for showing the TUG Boats 😊 I have Read about these modern Tugs in Professional Mariner publishing 😊 With these 0 emissions ports wanting ships to plug in at berths. So glad Edison motors is making a Log truck that can generate power, just like Cat is testing for mining hual trucks 😊
Diesel ships are really good. Ships cost so so so much its nice that theyre if simple and reliable as possible. But theres no doubt that we can reduce a huge amount of port emissioms withohtnhabing to convert the worlds diesel merchant vessel fleet to expensive hybrids. Maybe some but where the real advantage is i agree its the tug boats. When the ships come to where the masses of people are you cam cut the engines out at sea and pull them in with these hybrid tugs its actually clearly better in certain aspects and whether its worth it really depends on how long the batteries last and what the overall prices of operating maintaining repairingnand repalcing parts is over the vessels lifespan. To some degree jusy a straight compression engine vessel is advamtageous brcause they use such massive pistons the rpm is los and they cam run for a very very long time. You go to hybrid they will shrink the engine considerably and grow the battery and youll emd up with a small motor working hard to charhe a big dead weight battery thay weighs lot empty or full. You can see this tug the battery takes up the hole bottom but i mean the hybrid application there is also more affordable ton making the big panamaxes and capesizes etc hybrids. If the battery dies and it runs out of juice they are usually working in and out around ports. Thats a good application that will increase air quality in the areas that matter the most. If youre sending a uber giant vessel around africa you dontnwam tto have to keep stopping for both electricity and fuel when before you only needed fuel or didnt even depending on the vessel. I was looking at some vessels that run on natural gas because natural gas in liquidifed form compressed to less than 600x the volume in its gasseous form so the numbers are promising. So liquified natural gas tankers will run on natural gas. Sometimes its just the nature of the application that determines what fuels one ship over another. For different reasons its pretty interesting. Hybrids started popping up but most ships run on straight up supermassive bunker fuel compression engines like oil tankers and bulk carriers, container ships. Even if you only had hybrid tugs that would make a big difference in key areas in terms of air quality
Well, for the big ships you probably would be going back to running them as straight Deisel-Electric, like locomotives or the old U.S Standard type battleships. Basically running the engines as generators, which would then directly power the electric motors moving the ship. You could add some batteries to run the ship for a few hours coming into/out of port. Ships use port supplied power while berthed, and they could also charge their batteries there, further reducing engine run time. You can also add wind propulsion aids to ships to further reduce fuel needs (but not eliminate them, modern ships are just far to big and have too strict of deadlines to rely too much on the wind).
The mower I am dying laughing and that's not even supposed to be a comedic bit.... Also, I'm tempted to buy that little Canadian EV truck because it would be almost perfect for what I do
Hybrid electric with a plug in is what I would go for everytime. ESPECIALLY for EMERGENCY vehicles that have to work when the grid is clobbered. If I had a vehicle (work truck) with a 3kw output and could refuel it once a month and run it of the grid the rest of the time would be great. If that same plug in could power my house from the truck when the powergrid went down.....
If you live somewhere with sun and you can afford it solar and battery backups are a good option. Then you can just avoid the grid for the most part. They are making electric trucks now that can act as a battery backup for your house as well.
@@SmolPotatowoEhh, take a deep dive into how most solar cells are made (and disposed of). They are only environmentally friendly in comparison to coal and oil plants, Natural Gas is far better and Nuclear blows them out of the water. A small pop-up wind turbine is a great emergency alternative (and works in almost any wind conditions).
@@hanzzel6086 Oh trust me I agree for the most part. Solar is never going to power civilization, nuclear is really the only viable option to get us off coal and other air polluters. That being said though for 'off the grid' style things at home I think solar is a really good option. Having solar on individual houses lessens demand and it benefits the individual by being independent from the grid during power outages and the like. Also if you have an electric car you really can drive for free.
@@hanzzel6086I believe you mixed up solar cells with something else (maybe wind turbines?) because there’s nothing particularly wasteful about them. They’re largely made out of silicon and aluminum, of which is more than enough on earth, and their production doesn’t produce any significant amounts of emissions (assuming of course the grid is green). Yes recycling is an issue, but that’s the case for anything and everything, solar panels are not particularly hard to recycle or anything. On top of that your concerns don’t help the previous comment much because they want to get less dependent on the grid, and you can’t build a nuclear reactor in your backyard.
@@foximacentauri7891 Silicon pure enough for solar cells isn't very clean to produce, especially when made in China (which the vast majority of solar cells are). As for independence from the grid, yeah the pop up ain't great for that. But solar is't all that practical for that where I live, too many long weeks with little sun in times when you need the power most. You'd be better off setting up an (insulated enough to withstand a week plus of -40 degree weather) composter of a type that will produce a large amount of methane and running a generator/heater off that.
The canEV reminds me of the Taylor Electric truck that I used for probably 18 years and it was the most dependable machine we owned. This is an improvement because the body is easier to repair and less sheet metal in fenders. We were on the ocean in a sea port and the corrosion on the body was the only problem. It hauled more weight than anyone could believe and the maintenance was just cleaning battery terminals once a year. I hope this company does well
I like that peterbilt, for the owner operator who wants to be home daily I could see how that truck could easily drive all day and charge most of the way or all the way at night. The mostly stop and go and with nightly charging could last all week. The fuel savings alone for local work seems super appealing
Man, i've never wanted to shake a hand more than yours, EVER. Future will tell but you sir, are the only person added to my 'bycket list' i just started, after 44 years of travels, mishaps, scores and military/LE life. Kudos.
I know the Peterbuilt and Freight liner are available in the US but the mower & mini truck? That's a great show and presentation. Working up north I wonder about the cold weather issues. I'm not a fan of EV but fully support the hybrid aspect.
All awesome stuff. And totally agree with your statement on proper hybrids at the end. I think the biggest mistake Ford could have made was abandoning the fusion. They should have went with an electric drive train like a BEV and add a small onboard generator, like Topsy, but smaller. They would have killed the market.
Watch Wes Work put out an interesting video today about your guys truck and everything. It would be an interesting video for you guys at Edison Motors to watch.
I think the lock out tag out on the rig has to be simpler. In an emergency situation a first responder is not going to be trying to pull out their phone and try to scan a QR code and open up the hood that might wrecked. The kill switches have to be big, obvious, and external.
I agree, too many steps and too much time in an emergency situation. We've had ICE vehicles for decades that employ a fuel cut off when the air bags are deployed. It would seem prudent and more fail safe to adopt a similar system for EV.
@@davidzook8569There are no airbags in any tractors. The sensible logic being that you don't want the vision of a driver of the largest thing on the road being obscured because they hit something smaller than them.
@RowanHawkins I never said there were, however a system of switches could easily be used in a similar manner to activate battery cut outs and disconnect high voltage circuits in the event of a crash.
good talk! We also put man on the Moon 60 years ago and we can't still do it today, not to mention small thorium reactors producing electricity, but those got cancelled, since there was no way to make a bomb out of one :D
I was a big fan of Thorium a decade ago, still am. Good to look up the downsides of a Thorium reactor like corrosion I think. Im seeing the possibilities of renewables with storage now. Solar is so cheap and the sun is the nuclear reaction we just piggyback.
8:55 I think the mean green lawnmower should tone down the command response. Touchy commands on un-heaven terrain (because we don't exclusively mow golf courses) will require constant corrections only to maintain your path. A milder power mapping could also potentially reduce power usage and extend battery life. Wheelies are cool but yeah... This will leave some patches. LOL
Quite tugboating....🎉 living in a telephone booth, sitting on top of two 20 cylinder EMD's, floating on 245,000 gallons of diesel, isn't quiet. Great video!
i like that you accept constructive criticism, essentially it's an open design, only the cab design is really yours, and even that is mostly open. it's possible 'to edison spec', built by other companies, could revive truck building in other parts of the country, you're on the way to doing it with the work truck conversions. so, entirely open, based on a spec, send out your own inspectors to verify, so other companies have an easier time getting theirs street approved?
Great spread of vehicles and ideas. 😎🧙🏼♂️ The green meanie mower was mad 😂 definitely need a parking valet switch mode. That said you could probably mow a cricket ground out field in record time 😂 The Dutch have diesel electric hybrid life boats.. they find at night or in fog if they run silent they can hear people in the water.. when they cannot see them and they are not wearing reflective gear.
I want one of those little trucks. When your ready fto start a factory i want a job, im a welder who understands jigging and patern welding to prevent distortion
For the Might-E truck, I'd rather have a flatbed with stake pockets. That way I could load pallets onto it with a forklift. I like it, and if I got one I could add pockets for the stakes.
I am sure you know as a logger but when I was an OTR driver in the lower 48 stickers in that area would easily get covered with dirt and grim and rubbed off. @EdisonMotors I would suggest making a 'Bill Box' style of container inside the door or a tool box. This would have a window on the outside and allow access from the interior of the door so that the slip can be updated. This will allow it to be visible, protected and easily updatable.
so I’m a old skool carby V8 boy - well i leased a chinese eletric byd for a drive … it’s brilliant the get up and go of electric is awesome- just smoking people at lights silently - .. I have to say i’m converted for the daily for sure
The representatives for the Mean Green mower, and the Freightliner eM2 didnt understand the products their company is selling. Both of them said kW for battery size, instead of kWh.
The tug boats were surprising to see. Growing up around lakes it always seemed crazy to have super dirty boat exhaust just pumped directly into the water. Seeing the oil spread all over the surface of the marina water always seemed wrong. Especially when it’s on a reservoir where cities source their water. I think lake fishing, ski, and pontoon boats would be another great application. Definitely annoying to listen to the generator constantly running on a houseboat too.
7:48 Is the blue trim inside the cabin is actually luminous? I mean, if it's a light strip. Could it be beneficial in the sense that blue light exposure tend to prevent drowsiness or a my overthink here.
When I had to replace a third headlight in one year, on my ATV, at $65 each, I told the ATV dealer he could have all my money, just don't take it all today. I knew there was a cheaper way. I was quite certain that bombardier did not make their own headlights. I took my new headlight to the local parts store and asked him to research the manufacturer and if there was a cheaper version of this light. Without even using the computer, he squinted and thought about it and said that's from a late model cavalier, $21 on the shelf behind you. Edison is doing it right.
Thanks for this vid, Chase. I didn't know how far and advanced the ev world really is. You've got a great thing going on, sure hope you guys do great in the future.
Drove an 81 w900 with the left foot vent and a 95 mack with the roof vent loved that in the trucks with my 2011 had the foot vent in the summer miss that alot
Awesome content as usual chase. The cost of the freightliner is staggering, 470k for a truck when a comparable gas or diesel truck would be 100k is wild. The idea is great, but the cost of replacing the gas/diesel production to ev and passing it on to the end user is clearly too much to make it feasible.
Energy storage capacity is measured in Wh, not W... W is a measure of power. Multiple times in this video they have incorrectly used kW and MW to denote battery capacity...
I for one will sure miss the sound of big diesels. One of my favorite sounds is the big tugs on the Mississippi !! The throb of a big diesel means Big things are happening
It always just baffled me that hybrids originally weren't built like the Volt with the generator running an electric drivetrain. We could have have been driving them for years, and they probably would have lasted way longer and been way cheaper
" the Volt with the generator running an electric drivetrain". Actually the idea is the ICE generator only coming on to charge the battery pack. Diesel Electric Locomotives though power the wheels directly. I guess they dont have regen then though. Should have!
Skookum is a word from a language in the Pacific Northwest that originated from the trading between the First Nations and the settlers. The language is called "Chinook", kind of a jargon between two peoples speaking different languages. A few people are experts in it like Vancouver's ex mayor, Sam Sullivan.
I drive a belly dump here in Colorado I think this is a great idea I drive a 2000 KW W900B with a C12. Over the years I have seen the things that break trannies, diffs, and drive shafts. Trying to convince the bosses to look into this. I work in the oil and natural gas fields what better way to promote hybrids.
0:50 "...made right here in Vancouver...": Why do (should) we care where it's made? 5:15 "...not mentioned...": Is it street legal in Spring, TX, USA? What's the range? How quickly does it charge?
Whoaa, those tugboats sure look amazing, i betcha ol Theodore definitely wouldn’t expect the next gen to look so cool . Although, they’d probably look like dorks trying to wear his red cap
You guys are right now where Google was when they adopted the motto, “Don’t be evil.” In all honesty, I see what you’re doing as the future of commercial road transportation. You’re doing great. Please do better than Google.
I love the idea pf local delivery trucks being fully electric. Put a fast charger in the loading dock, and you'd be good for those local deliveries to gas stations and other small shops.
Question: is there only one port/side/area for EMS to disable the vehicle power? Why? what happens if the vehicle flips and that port becomes inaccessible?
That little canucky kei truck is one of the coolest things I've seen!
But the real question is can it do a wheelie 😉
@@25aspoonerif you put enough weight on the back, surely
If they make some 4x4, I'm gonna buy one to make working in our massive forest plot easier. Yes our 6x6 ATV does the job almost perfectly but having a heavier and more powerfull vehicule while still being very narrow would be better
Now squeeze a little generator under the front seat and make it street legal. And maybe an optional little roof rack with some solar panels
And we might even be able to get it in the states!
That wheelie on the mower 😂😂😂
They definitely need to take that thing to a drag strip, I bet it would have a wicked 60' 😂.
Can't believe we almost just watched him get locked up for running someone over mid wheelie. That lady was too chill about it
@@jeffroth5739 they just need a bit of expo on the throttle curve eh?
Most big 0 turn mowers can do wheelies
@@applicablerobot Yea, looks like a large dead band and direct PWM vs phase current controls. It's cheap and simple, but VERY punchy.
Chase: “I’m going to give a professional speech.”
Also Chase starts off with, “This is bullshit!”
😂😂
I give it 3 years before you have to pull out one of those little trucks with your off road rig Casey.
Hes definetly a rural canadian. Polite but hes like someone from wyoming. If thry dont like something theyll tell you and if you listen you might learn a thing or two
@@TheAnnoyingBoss
He is setting his company up for a massive insurance suit. Sorry not investing here.
Sorry, I didn't notice what was going on in the rest of the video - because I'm still hilariously laughing because of that segment with the green mower... 😂😂😂
honestly if it was me I would’ve handed the Green machine back to the guy at the booth as I would no longer trust myself
i was laughing when he was burning rubber.
That utility truck just looks like it was made in the former Soviet Union “But it’s made right here in Canada, eh?
At $37k for a green EV mower. “The battery will outlive this mower, it’ll last for ten years”. WTF? At $15k more than my comparable commercial diesel mowers I run, I can buy a hell of a lot of fuel and my mowers are still going strong at 10 years old. Not buying into it.
@@biprgriff yeah, cost and longevity really is a sticking point with bev stuff. for home use it makes sense cause you can easily use powertool batteries. but in a commercial setting i can see that being a pain. really just get one singular ev unit and use it only when the rules require it (denver city has mandated all electric equipment for commercial lawn care. kinda stupid to mandate that now and not in 5-10 years when the designs are better)
The Mower wheelie was *Mint*. Enjoyed this vid thoroughly!
I'm kinda shocked nobody tried to get him off that mower, good heavens!
Okay, if I'm able to get a big plot of land that Mean Green electric mower not only looks amazing but with that kind of get-up-and-go I could also have a ton of fun :D
Now i want that in an ATV like setup with a low bed, imagine doing groceries 😂 that'd be a lot of fun, (except for all the broken eggs in the back)
@@RENO_K and the broken legs under your wheels lol
Sealed beam headlamps, plain marker assemblies, simple and reliable! I dig it! Kinda looks like a Canadian equivalent of a kei truck
Like the simple design with easily replaceable parts of that first utility truck!
That is what a work tool needs to be. No fancy over-engineered vendor-lock shit
@@Rutokslove it!!
The pickups now days are mostly for looks unless you are 7 feet tall
This is a true work truck!!
It's a glorified electric golf cart.
@@N-M424 might be ... But...
It's the just the right size to load and unload things from the ground. Put a pair of side facing tool boxes on and still have a little center space for longer things you can reach from the back.
@@N-M424 All the repair people on campus use glorified electric golf carts lmao. They work well, that's not an insult.
Love the way you give due credit and acknowledgment even to some of your potential competitors
Wish there was an option for more than just one thumbs up. Several places in this video is where they would be used. Can't wait for the Half Ton conversion to come out. Heavy Half delivery truck. Yes, it will be sometime down the road.
If you have windows, windows key + . key, then search for the thumbs up.
The change in chases tone when the man from freightliner said 470k sums up my thoughts on it perfectly
Right to repair and ease of maintenance will be Edison Motors legacy! I'm sure big companies will run with the hybrid ideas, but their beancounters will not be able to let go the priority parts. Good job to you young people for taking back a kicked to the curb market.
That mower HAS to come with a big red label or tuneable controllers that's jacked
That MeanGreen machine is crazy!!!! Im laughing my ass off
It's amazing to watch Chase and his team grow this company and also share their storey. They are very realistic with their goals. Hopefully the rest of the world catches up to Edison Motors! 🙂
Golf course for the mean green would be gold
Smart move regarding scaling up, start small, learn on the way, kept debt low. Your attitude towards what the client needs is so refreshing.
That big icebreaker in the drydock is also diesel-electric. They just yanked 3 locomotive engines out of here and put new engines. Dang had I known this was going on and you be there, I come down and shake your hand.
Chace going speechless after the wheelie 🤣
I wasn’t expecting that power at all
Chace speaks wisdom as far as no “transitional” step to EV’s. The truck components are economical, available, and proven over decades, so don’t mess with them. A lot of the electric systems are also more common, much more so than the OEM’s are trying to put out. Being hybrid, you can choose to use your yard infrastructure, or go long haul, using existing support and facilities for fuel, light maintenance, and simply parking. You are free to embrace change as it comes along, and able to maintain full operation during emergency and disaster situations when you’re literally on your own. This means real world thinking without sacrificing your drivers and your business to the sheer stupidity that is prevalent in the EV space of trucking at the moment. Can’t wait to see Topsy wearing out some tires on the road.
Fantastic video! Love the electric tugboat that was so quiet that you didn't hear it pulling away from the pier!
Thank you for showing the TUG Boats 😊
I have Read about these modern Tugs in Professional Mariner publishing 😊
With these 0 emissions ports wanting ships to plug in at berths. So glad Edison motors is making a Log truck that can generate power, just like Cat is testing for mining hual trucks 😊
Cat has had electric haul trucks since the 1990s
If it's got a plug or a motor...it is NOT "ZERO EMISSIONS"...let's be realistic.
Diesel ships are really good. Ships cost so so so much its nice that theyre if simple and reliable as possible. But theres no doubt that we can reduce a huge amount of port emissioms withohtnhabing to convert the worlds diesel merchant vessel fleet to expensive hybrids. Maybe some but where the real advantage is i agree its the tug boats. When the ships come to where the masses of people are you cam cut the engines out at sea and pull them in with these hybrid tugs its actually clearly better in certain aspects and whether its worth it really depends on how long the batteries last and what the overall prices of operating maintaining repairingnand repalcing parts is over the vessels lifespan. To some degree jusy a straight compression engine vessel is advamtageous brcause they use such massive pistons the rpm is los and they cam run for a very very long time. You go to hybrid they will shrink the engine considerably and grow the battery and youll emd up with a small motor working hard to charhe a big dead weight battery thay weighs lot empty or full. You can see this tug the battery takes up the hole bottom but i mean the hybrid application there is also more affordable ton making the big panamaxes and capesizes etc hybrids. If the battery dies and it runs out of juice they are usually working in and out around ports. Thats a good application that will increase air quality in the areas that matter the most. If youre sending a uber giant vessel around africa you dontnwam tto have to keep stopping for both electricity and fuel when before you only needed fuel or didnt even depending on the vessel. I was looking at some vessels that run on natural gas because natural gas in liquidifed form compressed to less than 600x the volume in its gasseous form so the numbers are promising. So liquified natural gas tankers will run on natural gas. Sometimes its just the nature of the application that determines what fuels one ship over another. For different reasons its pretty interesting. Hybrids started popping up but most ships run on straight up supermassive bunker fuel compression engines like oil tankers and bulk carriers, container ships. Even if you only had hybrid tugs that would make a big difference in key areas in terms of air quality
Well, for the big ships you probably would be going back to running them as straight Deisel-Electric, like locomotives or the old U.S Standard type battleships.
Basically running the engines as generators, which would then directly power the electric motors moving the ship. You could add some batteries to run the ship for a few hours coming into/out of port. Ships use port supplied power while berthed, and they could also charge their batteries there, further reducing engine run time. You can also add wind propulsion aids to ships to further reduce fuel needs (but not eliminate them, modern ships are just far to big and have too strict of deadlines to rely too much on the wind).
@@danielkingery2894 LESS diesel its a start.
The mower I am dying laughing and that's not even supposed to be a comedic bit....
Also, I'm tempted to buy that little Canadian EV truck because it would be almost perfect for what I do
Those mini trucks are awesome
@@EdisonMotorsmy favorite too!!
Hybrid electric with a plug in is what I would go for everytime. ESPECIALLY for EMERGENCY vehicles that have to work when the grid is clobbered. If I had a vehicle (work truck) with a 3kw output and could refuel it once a month and run it of the grid the rest of the time would be great. If that same plug in could power my house from the truck when the powergrid went down.....
If you live somewhere with sun and you can afford it solar and battery backups are a good option. Then you can just avoid the grid for the most part. They are making electric trucks now that can act as a battery backup for your house as well.
@@SmolPotatowoEhh, take a deep dive into how most solar cells are made (and disposed of). They are only environmentally friendly in comparison to coal and oil plants, Natural Gas is far better and Nuclear blows them out of the water. A small pop-up wind turbine is a great emergency alternative (and works in almost any wind conditions).
@@hanzzel6086 Oh trust me I agree for the most part. Solar is never going to power civilization, nuclear is really the only viable option to get us off coal and other air polluters.
That being said though for 'off the grid' style things at home I think solar is a really good option. Having solar on individual houses lessens demand and it benefits the individual by being independent from the grid during power outages and the like. Also if you have an electric car you really can drive for free.
@@hanzzel6086I believe you mixed up solar cells with something else (maybe wind turbines?) because there’s nothing particularly wasteful about them. They’re largely made out of silicon and aluminum, of which is more than enough on earth, and their production doesn’t produce any significant amounts of emissions (assuming of course the grid is green). Yes recycling is an issue, but that’s the case for anything and everything, solar panels are not particularly hard to recycle or anything.
On top of that your concerns don’t help the previous comment much because they want to get less dependent on the grid, and you can’t build a nuclear reactor in your backyard.
@@foximacentauri7891 Silicon pure enough for solar cells isn't very clean to produce, especially when made in China (which the vast majority of solar cells are). As for independence from the grid, yeah the pop up ain't great for that. But solar is't all that practical for that where I live, too many long weeks with little sun in times when you need the power most. You'd be better off setting up an (insulated enough to withstand a week plus of -40 degree weather) composter of a type that will produce a large amount of methane and running a generator/heater off that.
Huge respect for you. When the time comes to build a Farm tractor I’m in.
I love Chace's humble smack talk
"You all should be ashamed that we had to make this"
The canEV reminds me of the Taylor Electric truck that I used for probably 18 years and it was the most dependable machine we owned. This is an improvement because the body is easier to repair and less sheet metal in fenders. We were on the ocean in a sea port and the corrosion on the body was the only problem. It hauled more weight than anyone could believe and the maintenance was just cleaning battery terminals once a year. I hope this company does well
I like that peterbilt, for the owner operator who wants to be home daily I could see how that truck could easily drive all day and charge most of the way or all the way at night.
The mostly stop and go and with nightly charging could last all week. The fuel savings alone for local work seems super appealing
Good luck charging that 400 kW battery at home over night.....plus, the 150 mile range is going fall a little short of the typical local route.
Mower needs a "16 year old employee" setting.
A "my parents and the corrupt government agreed to let me work as a minor" setting 😂
nah, just needs a wheelie bar
@@The_JEB a parachute that deploys at the end of the 1/8th mile
Just Insane.. Doing Wheeley That Is The First We Have Saw.
But does that Peterbilt have an option for a wigwag though?
It does not unfortunately
Aren't you one of my viewers?
@@JoeMalovich Yes, I am, Joe. Been watching you for a long time!
Man, i've never wanted to shake a hand more than yours, EVER. Future will tell but you sir, are the only person added to my 'bycket list' i just started, after 44 years of travels, mishaps, scores and military/LE life. Kudos.
I know the Peterbuilt and Freight liner are available in the US but the mower & mini truck? That's a great show and presentation. Working up north I wonder about the cold weather issues. I'm not a fan of EV but fully support the hybrid aspect.
I manufactured 4 wheel drive jeep in 1999 a motor on each wheel sold em to Japan. Gud to c innovation is still alive mike. Scotland
All awesome stuff. And totally agree with your statement on proper hybrids at the end. I think the biggest mistake Ford could have made was abandoning the fusion. They should have went with an electric drive train like a BEV and add a small onboard generator, like Topsy, but smaller. They would have killed the market.
Watch Wes Work put out an interesting video today about your guys truck and everything. It would be an interesting video for you guys at Edison Motors to watch.
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It would be interesting to watch and respond to
Haha yup. He addresses most of the concerns I have. Nobody thinks about conversion losses and I'll only believes it when I sees it!
@@drewmurray2583 yeah. Wes kinda burst my bubble too!
But his conclusion was: "Who cares!" LoL 😂😆
Now I'm looking for that video
Holy smokes! That MeanGreen section looked sped up when you were moving. Put some Benny Hill on top of that! 😂
Chase with the Skookum report
I think the lock out tag out on the rig has to be simpler.
In an emergency situation a first responder is not going to be trying to pull out their phone and try to scan a QR code and open up the hood that might wrecked. The kill switches have to be big, obvious, and external.
I agree, too many steps and too much time in an emergency situation. We've had ICE vehicles for decades that employ a fuel cut off when the air bags are deployed. It would seem prudent and more fail safe to adopt a similar system for EV.
@@davidzook8569There are no airbags in any tractors. The sensible logic being that you don't want the vision of a driver of the largest thing on the road being obscured because they hit something smaller than them.
@RowanHawkins I never said there were, however a system of switches could easily be used in a similar manner to activate battery cut outs and disconnect high voltage circuits in the event of a crash.
love you guys keep up the good work you make perfect sense, good presenter too- have you looked at super caps for initial grunt?
good talk! We also put man on the Moon 60 years ago and we can't still do it today, not to mention small thorium reactors producing electricity, but those got cancelled, since there was no way to make a bomb out of one :D
I was a big fan of Thorium a decade ago, still am. Good to look up the downsides of a Thorium reactor like corrosion I think. Im seeing the possibilities of renewables with storage now. Solar is so cheap and the sun is the nuclear reaction we just piggyback.
8:55 I think the mean green lawnmower should tone down the command response. Touchy commands on un-heaven terrain (because we don't exclusively mow golf courses) will require constant corrections only to maintain your path. A milder power mapping could also potentially reduce power usage and extend battery life. Wheelies are cool but yeah... This will leave some patches. LOL
Quite tugboating....🎉 living in a telephone booth, sitting on top of two 20 cylinder EMD's, floating on 245,000 gallons of diesel, isn't quiet. Great video!
Great and fun episode, those tugs were really cool !!!
i like that you accept constructive criticism, essentially it's an open design, only the cab design is really yours, and even that is mostly open. it's possible 'to edison spec', built by other companies, could revive truck building in other parts of the country, you're on the way to doing it with the work truck conversions.
so, entirely open, based on a spec, send out your own inspectors to verify, so other companies have an easier time getting theirs street approved?
Man those tugboats are definitely Topsies cousin that join the Coast guard. 🤣
Great spread of vehicles and ideas. 😎🧙🏼♂️ The green meanie mower was mad 😂 definitely need a parking valet switch mode.
That said you could probably mow a cricket ground out field in record time 😂
The Dutch have diesel electric hybrid life boats.. they find at night or in fog if they run silent they can hear people in the water.. when they cannot see them and they are not wearing reflective gear.
great conversation & nice review on the hybrid tug boat. Love this video!
I want one of those little trucks. When your ready fto start a factory i want a job, im a welder who understands jigging and patern welding to prevent distortion
For the Might-E truck, I'd rather have a flatbed with stake pockets. That way I could load pallets onto it with a forklift. I like it, and if I got one I could add pockets for the stakes.
Bro I giggled like a kid at that wheelie. That was hilarious
You just KNOW any and all involved insurance agents had a collective heart attack 😂
Very exciting! Thanks
I am sure you know as a logger but when I was an OTR driver in the lower 48 stickers in that area would easily get covered with dirt and grim and rubbed off.
@EdisonMotors I would suggest making a 'Bill Box' style of container inside the door or a tool box. This would have a window on the outside and allow access from the interior of the door so that the slip can be updated. This will allow it to be visible, protected and easily updatable.
28:26 off the shelf component selection was an interesting approach.
so I’m a old skool carby V8 boy - well i leased a chinese eletric byd for a drive … it’s brilliant the get up and go of electric is awesome- just smoking people at lights silently - .. I have to say i’m converted for the daily for sure
Me too. Electric powertrain is awesome and even if its powered by gas its better.
The representatives for the Mean Green mower, and the Freightliner eM2 didnt understand the products their company is selling. Both of them said kW for battery size, instead of kWh.
Nomenclature. . . . The bane of the 21st century.
The tug boats were surprising to see. Growing up around lakes it always seemed crazy to have super dirty boat exhaust just pumped directly into the water. Seeing the oil spread all over the surface of the marina water always seemed wrong. Especially when it’s on a reservoir where cities source their water. I think lake fishing, ski, and pontoon boats would be another great application. Definitely annoying to listen to the generator constantly running on a houseboat too.
Looks like Chase just bought at a slightly used lawn mower. 😂
His insurance: "you bought a lawnmower okay we can insure tha-- it does WHAT"
Are those Might E Trucks legal in the US?
I've been eyeing one of those KEI trucks from Japan for a while and would love a Canadian made one instead.
They use em like he said in santa Monica so I imagine so
i doubt for highway use it looks that its mostly for use on property meaning private roads.
7:48 Is the blue trim inside the cabin is actually luminous? I mean, if it's a light strip. Could it be beneficial in the sense that blue light exposure tend to prevent drowsiness or a my overthink here.
Those tug boats are pretty cool!
Canadian Electric Vehicles is cool. Link is wrong in the description.
Brilliant Canadians - can't beat them!
Those Haisea Tug Boats are so fucking awesome!!
When I had to replace a third headlight in one year, on my ATV, at $65 each, I told the ATV dealer he could have all my money, just don't take it all today. I knew there was a cheaper way. I was quite certain that bombardier did not make their own headlights. I took my new headlight to the local parts store and asked him to research the manufacturer and if there was a cheaper version of this light. Without even using the computer, he squinted and thought about it and said that's from a late model cavalier, $21 on the shelf behind you.
Edison is doing it right.
Great presentation. Keep up the good work.
When they called it "Mean Green" they really did mean it on the *mean* part.
And at that skating rink the Zamboni is electric, going strong for 4 seasons.
Especially indoors, ICE fumes are bad news.
Thanks for this vid, Chase. I didn't know how far and advanced the ev world really is.
You've got a great thing going on, sure hope you guys do great in the future.
That mower is a menace
Drove an 81 w900 with the left foot vent and a 95 mack with the roof vent loved that in the trucks with my 2011 had the foot vent in the summer miss that alot
I am ☠️ after that wheelie! Especially the joy on your face; little kid on first go-kart.
15:55 charging options fir festivals and events would make great use of these
Great information Gentleman 👍👍👍
Weren’t the tug boats already diesel electric?
Thought the sea vessels went diesel electric ages ago
Oh snap 3 mins ago. Never saw a video this new before
Oh damn the wheelie on the mower
@@platplat"hey babe watch this"
Awesome content as usual chase. The cost of the freightliner is staggering, 470k for a truck when a comparable gas or diesel truck would be 100k is wild. The idea is great, but the cost of replacing the gas/diesel production to ev and passing it on to the end user is clearly too much to make it feasible.
470k for that small box truck is straight up taking the piss the entire electric conversion would be well under 100k
It's ridiculous. They have a ways to go
Audio only coming out of the left channel 😬. Love the tiny truck from Vancouver Island!
Damnit, I don't know how that happened, I wish I caught that before posting.
-Theron
Energy storage capacity is measured in Wh, not W...
W is a measure of power.
Multiple times in this video they have incorrectly used kW and MW to denote battery capacity...
its just shorthand speech
Chace needs to do more of these haha. Perfect host for it
I for one will sure miss the sound of big diesels.
One of my favorite sounds is the big tugs on the Mississippi !!
The throb of a big diesel means Big things are happening
I love your longer form videos
i think they might need to do a bit more work on that mower
surely that cant be the intended power mapping
Think of the grass it would tear up set like that.
Yeah but it's hilarious to drive it like that
It always just baffled me that hybrids originally weren't built like the Volt with the generator running an electric drivetrain.
We could have have been driving them for years, and they probably would have lasted way longer and been way cheaper
" the Volt with the generator running an electric drivetrain". Actually the idea is the ICE generator only coming on to charge the battery pack. Diesel Electric Locomotives though power the wheels directly. I guess they dont have regen then though. Should have!
Pretty wicked ! Keep up the good work!
the hybird tug is a really smart idea ... hybird with a bigger battery is best of boat worlds
Is Skookum a Canadian word, the only other person I've heard us it is Ave and he's in Canada. What does it mean?
Sturdy, tough.
Skookum is a word from a language in the Pacific Northwest that originated from the trading between the First Nations and the settlers. The language is called "Chinook", kind of a jargon between two peoples speaking different languages. A few people are experts in it like Vancouver's ex mayor, Sam Sullivan.
This is sooo cool!!!
I drive a belly dump here in Colorado I think this is a great idea I drive a 2000 KW W900B with a C12. Over the years I have seen the things that break trannies, diffs, and drive shafts. Trying to convince the bosses to look into this. I work in the oil and natural gas fields what better way to promote hybrids.
I really wanna see that mower in action. Like does it drive faster than it can cut?
0:50 "...made right here in Vancouver...": Why do (should) we care where it's made? 5:15 "...not mentioned...": Is it street legal in Spring, TX, USA? What's the range? How quickly does it charge?
Google 'might e truck' for their website, pretty sure all the specs are online.
That little pickup ❤
Whoaa, those tugboats sure look amazing, i betcha ol Theodore definitely wouldn’t expect the next gen to look so cool . Although, they’d probably look like dorks trying to wear his red cap
Cool all around. I should move to BC so I can build my alternative energy powered catamaran. Thanks !
9:08 It literally looks like the camera footage is sped up. it's unnaturally fast.
You guys are right now where Google was when they adopted the motto, “Don’t be evil.”
In all honesty, I see what you’re doing as the future of commercial road transportation. You’re doing great. Please do better than Google.
I love the idea pf local delivery trucks being fully electric. Put a fast charger in the loading dock, and you'd be good for those local deliveries to gas stations and other small shops.
The Fisker Karma was a series hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) that used a combination of a gasoline engine and electric motors to power the car.
Cool video. I especially like your K. I. S S. principal approach.
Question: is there only one port/side/area for EMS to disable the vehicle power? Why? what happens if the vehicle flips and that port becomes inaccessible?