"EV driving range comparable to a diesel truck" - That's great news! I have been driving a Toyota plug-in Hybrid since 2019, and have come to love driving in EV mode: the vehicle is whisper silent, incredibly energy-efficient, and here in central California, I can charge at home, overnight, for 12¢/kW-hr. This works out to a cost per mile for electricity that is 1/3 the cost per mile for gasoline or diesel fuel, and EV's don't need regular oil changes every 10,000 km. 5 liters of motor oil costs about $25 (25 Euro more or less), so EV's save money there. In a typical EV or PHEV car like my Rav4 Prime, you change the transaxle oil only every 90,000 km. My car uses 4 liters of Toyota WS-ATF fluid that costs about $15/liter. For 90,000km of driving, that cost for transmission oil is negligible. If IVECO can build an electric semi-tractor that can go 4 hours at 100 km/hr, I'd much rather drive an electric than a diesel.
Loved your video, its really interesting to see how things are changing in haulage. I have only been a BEV car driver for just over 18 months, but I've decided I never want to go back to ICE as its so much more relaxing driving my car, is it the same with trucks? It's so good to see BEV trucks, I wonder what the future will bring.
I must assume your batteries are fired up via a drive unit... I retired from Nucor Steel Corp in the US I worked in the Maintenace dept. we use a lot of Siemens drives and most everything was run using PLCs I assume your truck motors and battery bank system are using much of he same tech.. So engaging your batteries in phases / stages avoids blowing out your fuses and connectors... like shutting down a mill.. it's done in stages and start up is also done in stages... We had some of the largest electric motors ever built onsite.. General Electric (GE) has built some of the largest electric motors used in steel mills, including motors with power ratings up to 10,000 horsepower (HP). These high-power motors are typically used in main stand motors for rolling mills, which require significant power to drive the heavy machinery involved in steel production
Taking a full minute to reach 60 km/h whilst carrying a partial load must seem like going back in time, after driving around in an electric truck. Times are changing. Thanks for the video. 🙂👍
You should try and be the first person to drive an electric semi truck around Australia, although if you look it up Jon Edwards just drove his Hyundai Mighty 7.3 tonne electric truck around Australia. He was doing it the same time as I was doing it in my Polestar 2 in September. My trip took 33 days, backed up by a trip to Tasmania.
Glad you're back! I noticed I didn't have a video to watch last week... Also, those charge covers are great. I have a Kia Niro EV, and the way Kia has designed them isn't the greatest. They get in the way when you're trying to plug in a CCS2 DC Charging cable.
I wish I was still young enough to do the job, I spent many years tramping around Europe, and the Electric truck would have been a dream to drive, although I suspect Germany Scandinavia and the Netherlands will be the best countries for infrastructure in the coming years, eventually, it will be the norm everywhere. As an advantage for all road users, trucks will be less of a hindrance on hills once they are all electric. Everyone wins.
2:01 - electric forklifts (ref: Crown Stand-ups and Toyota's forklifts they used to prototype the first Prius 30 years ago) are ideally positioned for all day indoor use inside Warehouses, etc due to their lack of emissions, which technically you would still have when using Propane. again the basic technology already existed 30 years ago, so what we're seeing with EV cars and trucks is simply the fitting of SOFT RUBBER WHEELS (instead of hard polyurethane wheels) to the technology.
As a EV mechanic and also Diesel truck mechanic, I can tell you that yes, it's cheaper to run and refuel the EV, however you'll overpay in repairs and maintenance. For example charging 24V system AC to DC converter €2500. The alternator is €400. AC compressor EV €1900, for diesel €500. Charging socket assembly €5000, for diesel fuel tank cap €45 Everything is more expensive, labour, parts, fluids, diagnostic etc. Repairs cannot be made roadside like a diesel truck, everything is a recovery to dry EV capable workshop. Downtime is weeks not days.
@veden3383Please keep your ignorance to yourself. This guy is directly involved with the trucks, he's not sucking data from thin air. Go back to arranging flowers.
Take a look at the Electric, hybrid logging truck Topsy and Edison motors of BC Canada... 100tonne loads...off-road and off the shelf parts and fast maintenance turn round.
Seems like the days of complex gear boxes are gone for trucks. A bigger electric motor is easier, needs less maintenance and allows for larger recuperation which is crucial for trucks. The decision makers at Mercedes are still stuck in their ICE mindset while the guys at Nikola started with an unbiased concept.
isn't as easy as it might seems.. diesel is still cheaper (even before considering that in many contries it has 50 to 70% of tax applied..), it has a solid infostructure, batteries in truck still needs to be proven (you can easily do 1 million km with a diesel truck, we need to see how good will be the status of the betteries, if they can hold that much), has a higher payload capacity (even considering the extra 2 ton regulator gifted to ev trucks), ecc
@@kl1nk0rThe Iveco uses the Nikola truck re skinned as Iveco. They had actually merged their operations but recently separated with Iveco retaining rights to use the IP in Europe and Nikola in North America,.
When I drive my simple E Berlingo it is a pleasure and relaxing.I have been around cars more than 50 years and these E Motors are the best.Get the charging infrastructure right in the UK and people won't go back to combustion.
@@devbropa-wy1xlpretty sure you would have to develop a universal platform for all cars to be built on for that to work outside of those one-model proprietary stations for Chinese cars - good luck getting manufacturers to agree on that
@@devbropa-wy1xl Yeah the systems from Nio are pretty nice. Still the infrastructure is expensive and complex. Building chargers is a lot easier and requires far less maintenance.
ruclips.net/video/w_0PwLCm2_E/видео.html That trailer will never ride with more than 3 axles down. In case 2 x 20 feet shipping containers are transported, that trailer can be split up in 2 pieces. This way the doors of the front shipping container can be opened to load/unload at a loading dock. The truck has 3 axles in case the front 20 feet shipping container is heavy and the back one is light. So all axle weight stay within limits.
I drive a dirty diesel DAF Truck like the one you have just driven 😮 So watching you in this E Iveco is really interesting 🤔 I retire next year so the chance of me driving one is nil 🤪 How’s the difference in cost between electric compared to diesel? Love your video especially as you’ve taken the time to translate it to English 🏴 Cheers Stevie 👍🏻
Here in central California, we have a not-for-profit Municipal electric company. Their overnight rate for residential EV charging is 10¢/kW-hr from October 1 to May 31, and 12¢/kW-hr from June 1 to September 30. In a typical EV car like a Tesla, Nissan Leaf, Chevy Bolt, or Toyota BZ4X, the electric power costs about 4 to 5¢/mile. In a similarly sized gasoline Hybrid, like a Prius, you would pay about 7¢/mile, and in a non-Hybrid, like a Subaru Outback, 14¢/mile. In the IVECO semi tractor shown in this video, it takes 750 kW-hr for a full charge, to go 400 miles. That's 1.9 kW-hr/mile, or 47.5¢/mile at 25¢/kW-hr. Compared to a diesel truck getting 5 miles per gallon, diesel fuel costs $4.50/gallon, so that's 90¢/mile. The EV truck doesn't need engine oil changes costing $400 every 25,000 miles, so you save money there, too. In Europe, diesel fuel costs $9.00/gallon, so an electric truck would be 4 times less expensive, assuming charging at the same 25¢/kW-hr.
5:56 before a certain time and according to many laws(for cars at least) it wasnt required that the brake lights come on because(in the case of a car) there is only two wheels being affected and its not the service brakes. My 2008 Prius(that I am sitting in currently to stay out of the rain) also doesn't activate brake lights on regen either. However, in my case I don't have much regen before the service brakes start to apply so its not a problem.(But it does bother me too!)
I remember reading something from about a year ago about how the way the text of the law actually prohibits brake lights during regen breaking. But I can't remember where in the world it related to
Love your content, do you do the voice-over yourself or? Is your German audience bigger than the English-speaking? Keep up the awesome work, and trucking 💪🏽
OMG, his German channel blew up to 38k in six months, is all the rage in relevant circles and he was name dropped by our federal minister of economy Robert Habeck. There's nothing better and up to date out there anywhere (forget about those Edison guys ; ) If you wanna skip ahead and see his 7000km journey to Malaga in Souther Spain and back you should watch the DE channel with EN auto-subtitles, works great youtube.com/@elektrotrucker?si=IqUt3iXpIoc9gNPv
as far as I know the english translation voice is AI and the script is also translated automatically, but looked over by a human to ensure it doesn't have nonsense in it
Yea he said it was a AI elevenlabs voice, which they check over before releasing. That surprised me. It's really good quality with natural intonation and pronunciation (for what I assumed was simply a non-native speaker), especially with all these proper names. They're definitely doing good checking work on the backend, I think.
Love this channel, but your title on this one is a little misleading... you only got a truck license to drive electric in the first place, and you have only driven electric since you got your license, so there is no diesel back to go to...
and why should there be (fyi he's been toying around with provocative titles lately to broaden his audience ;). He did his truck license on ICE trucks too and the company - althoug converting their fleet - still has 50+% Diesel trucks to be sold off before it becomes a loss. We can't afford to wait for each and every one whos spent his entire life being invested (literally and emotionally) in ICE tech to achieve de-carbonisation in the road based transport sector, so new guys who are drawn to it because they like EVs and what iportant part they play are welcome.
A forklift should be able to have a super small battery. So the cost shouldn't be that big. Jungheinrich already have electric forklifts for warehouse applications An hour of runtime would be loads & charge it from the main battery. Sounds like a perfect fit.
What there needs for you and your e-Trucker colleagues is truck charging stations with the new MCS standard so you won't hog a charger say overnight it'll fill up your battery as fast as a EV car and cars can't use them as it's a different connector to CCS. You should use your audio from your camera instead of doing VO as means we can hear what it sounds like inside your truck when you're driving and the other ambient noises. Fantastic to watch another of your videos. I'm not a trucker just a EV nerd. :)
He keeps adressing MCS but sofar has concluded that with the way things are (i.e. limited driving times, 600+kWh batteries) whats really needed are al LOT of 350+kW capable CCS truck chargers with enough space, He just did a segment on the new Milence truck charger ruclips.net/video/BAxyMhf7ZfY/видео.htmlsi=eMihy93Elypl8bN- check out his original German account from which these vid are derived. Switch to automatic EN subtitles, works great and you're more up to date on his latest endevour : ) youtube.com/@elektrotrucker?si=IqUt3iXpIoc9gNPv
Driving electric from 2014. Also i will never ever switch back to the IC. It’s just old technology, which in 10 years will be forgotten. No one will produce any more IC cars/trucks in that time. it’s just enorm waste of money on the fuel/service.
@ Here in Scandinavia IC are almost dead. In 10 years no one will produce any more IC cars. In just 3-4 years China will be world leader in car production and many legit car brand names will be dead.
Dream on... ICE will still be used in 50 years time.... EV will take over in cities, but in many countries, there is simply no charging infrastructure for EV Trucks.
Would be nice to hear more of the truck. What about the batteries clicking that you love? How about hearing it on the highway? There was one spot where you overtook but that was about it.
I've followed ETs ECs EBs E trucks car bikes.. EMs motorcycles for years now. It appears that the 64 cents per kwh is an average charging rate in several countries. I hope the rates can reflect a balance as well as an affordable rate across the board... making electric transportation a reasonable choice benefits everyone. BTW in SC charging at home runs about 10 cents per kwh...
didn't you watch the videos, the limiting factor is NOT the battery but rather the legal driving hours in Europe, and he uses the mandatory 45min brakes to top up during the day. He does talk about self powered trailer a bit in later episodes on the German channel, but so far running out of juice hasn't been an issue at all youtube.com/@elektrotrucker?si=IqUt3iXpIoc9gNPv
Worst case, get another car or generator to come out for 15 minutes and provide an extra 2%, then get to the charger. But like he's shown, generally, he's not getting that close to 0%. He has stay within driving time regulations, which means he has plenty of time to charge - even when the chargers aren't ideal or don't work, which he's shown as well. Lots of ways to get around issues on trucking routes.
Alex from TechnologyConnections did a video (maybe last year?) about the brake lights not coming on when using regen braking. He was scathing in that review (US of course) and rightfully so. Very very unsafe and clearly something that needs to be changed. If a truck is (rapidly!) decelerating, the people behind you should know.
It’s too early yet for you to be experiencing problems, a relative of mine works for Jaguar in the UK, he had one of the new jags and said the same, he commented on how fast it was etc etc, in less than twelve months it was gone and he returned to an ICE car which he still has to this day. I don’t think the technology is quite there yet, maybe another ten years or so when technology has progressed and we have the infrastructure to cope, it may be viable, but not yet!!
I love watching you and learning about electric trucks. There is a lot of opposition to electric trucks. I can wait to try one! I am a truck driver too here in USA. Stay safe! ruclips.net/video/Js6y_CbiX28/видео.htmlsi=kIxxT68W3w9euDFz
Funny how this is the same thing, but gets none of the hate the electric truck from the ‘other company’ gets. It’s almost like it’s nothing to do with the truck.
Thanks for the awesome videos! Does the energy that your solar roof box generates sufficiently offset the reduced efficiency from the additional drag it creates?
on his German main channel he adresses how battery losses for heating up the battery can be minimised with conditioning the battery while still plugged in when he's getting ready to set off.
There are small cars that the batteries have 3-500 thousand miles and have no problem yet. Do you think that a battery 6-10 times biger can't handle one or two million?
@@chrishar110 There are examples of Teslas that have driven up to 1 million km with the battery replaced 3-4 times, and examples where passenger cars have driven one battery 600-700,000 km. I’m asking because, typically, a truck engine has a lifespan of about 1 million km before requiring a major overhaul, after which it can run another 500,000 to 1 million km. I’m wondering about the lifecycle of electric trucks. At the same time, the entire automotive industry seems to be moving towards a model where we should only own cars for 3-5 years.
@@chrishar110 But he also needs 5-8 times the energy. So that compensates a lot, what counts are the battery cycles. But the truck battery should have much less stress, especially as it charges only with 0.5 C.
I don't care about the different between different types of vehicles ice or ev, it's being told what to do by government is the issue. If these are so good why do the government have to force them on us.
It is amazing that some people watching this have sat at home and by power of logic alone have proved beyond doubt that electric vehicles cannot possibly work. The whole field of electrical engineering will immediately end when this fact becomes widely known. Michael Faraday will be denounced and Nikola Tesla will be discredited.
Its early days... the technology and infrastructure are making headway and new improvements on a daily basis. If you're hoping electric vehicles will fail then you're in for a huge disappointment... !
8:30 never seen a 5 axle truck? Servitude saying German doesn’t have those? The Nederlands have them a lot. Btw gardening transport is the most enjoyable work 😁
his EN channel lags behind a couple of months (because of the added voiceovers on the original German videos) Plenty of cold temp stuff in his up to date main channel which you can enjoy with auto-subitles youtube.com/@elektrotrucker?si=IqUt3iXpIoc9gNPv
So just for information how much does truck drivers get in Germany ! Uk is 18 uk pounds hour ! Max for the truck you are driving it far more difficult in the uk. In traffic volume ! I save lots gas on German motorways because there no stopping and start !
A few thousand right now in whole Europe. The manufacturers didn't start the production lines fully yet.There are many customers waiting but they wait for the charging infastracture to follow. The range is enough for a single shift and you save a lot of money from maintenance and when you charge in your yard at nights.
Hi, I am pushing 80 yrs old, and former truck driver, I could drive that unit easy and much safer, it's the future! Your presentation is first class and so is your inpeccable English, well done😊
This is delusional nonsense, not least because of the amount of energy it takes to charge one of these truck batteries (equivalent to powering a small town), and the fact that batteries have comparatively low energy density.
And you prefer diesel that uses only 30-35% of the chemical power to move the truck and all the rest is heat, fumes and pollutes that go to atmosphere? It's proven that it's not effecient.
@@dipladonic I don't kid myshelf, it's so simple a diesel needs 25 liters of diesel to make 100km, that's about 225KWh, and it can make the same distance with 120Kwh of power from it's batteries.
When we get to 50% ELECTRIC trucks good luck trying to get charged if we reach 100% not a cat in hells chance, same or even worse for cars enjoy it while you can.
The charging times are defo making you loose a lot out of the 15h daily limit (3 p/week), at the start of the video charging from 24% to 88% took 1h 21min (that's roughly 2 x 45min breaks) to gain just under 400km, it takes roughly 1 sec p/L with diesel i.e. it would have taken you 500 to 600 seconds to fill up a tank and have between 1400 to 1800km depends on the load which it is easily 2 days worth off fuel. Who is paying the extra 3h p/day (1.5h to charge 65%) on those days when you don't find a charger at night or if you're doing a longer trip (over 700km) and need the extra energy? We defo need more infrastructure and possibly faster chargers or perhaps chargers at loading/unloading points? I personally don't see the improvement here, 5 minutes to fill a diesel tank that will give me 2 days of work versus 3+h everyday just to charge the batteries... not to mention the troubles to even get to charger point... P.s. appreciate your content, as a fellow trucker in the UK I'm fascinated from the development of our industry and the new technologies coming out of it
Your calculations are off. He starts the day with 100%, that equals +500km. During mandatory rest he tops up. Often he has to wait for unloading/loading slots. He did trips +700km always stopped driving time, not the battery. If he would have a smaller battery, then you would be right. But not with that IVECO
@@larsradtke4097 and the only time this became an issue is when he went all the way down to Spain (main channel in German which is up to date) with a second driver, and even then there were limits to what overall driving time was legal vs. what could have been done if no charging were required.
All that electricity, with at least 80% of it generated through fossil fuels.. Its like eating a Big Mac, but wrapping it in lettuce first. Progress, I guess..
Power plants are way more efficient than what cars and trucks get. And if the nuclear energy fear mongering ended we could maybe have plentefull clean energy too.
A diesel needs 3 times more energy than an electric truck. So even if you need twice the amount of diesel to produce the electricity, you need less. Btw. ever heart of Diesel-electric trains? That is decades old and is used because of higer efficiency.
Seems to me that you have a higher cost per km compared to a diesel, you are around 50€ to 70€ for 100km, while diesel is around 40€ (which is 20% cheaper) what are your thoughts about that? also considering that 50% to 70% of the costs of diesel are tax, while electricity for transport is still without specific tax
nah, you must've gotten that wrong. He's done multiple explanations on this, it brings imediate and longt term savings over Diesel. The key message being that in the professional transport sector its all about total cost of ownership anyways which favours electric trucks too (less maintenance, no road toll). And where are you getting that not-paying-for-the-transport-of-electricity thing from? It makes for a sizeable part of the price you pay per kWh
@@velotill he is putting data on the video when he charges. and prices are 20% to 80% more that a comparable diesel. and other costs (maintenance, ecc) cannot add that much. no road toll is not everywhere and is clearly a political incentive, it is almost certain that it won't be there forever every EU country has specific "excise duties" on diesel which are different for heat, agricoltura and generic transportation use, these are still not being put on electricity used in charging station for example in Italy diesel today is 1.60€/liter of which 0,62€/liter are excise duties. it would be 0,9€/liter with usual VAT. try to do the calculation on how much would an ev truck would cost if the same duties are applied
So I did think you had speed cameras in Germany it only has the witching hour mid night when there no speed limit lot work for fire service cut people out of cars ! Let me no if want in Germany 🇩🇪 strange thing be British but be pass end of December the same highway to speed cameras heaven Austria Andrea’s
Please keep at least one hand on the wheel at all times, ideally both. I'm surprised the police haven't prosecuted you for dangerous driving and your employer still employs you. Do you consider yourself a safe and professional driver?
wrong, plenty of stuff is able to grow under PV panels out on the field. If its a classic set-up you may have sheep, more modern approaches in agri-voltaics use vertical set-ups with tracks for tracktors in between. LOTs of research being done right now
We moved to EVs completely. They are a blast to drive, charging is easy and convenient, and they are so quiet compared to ICEs. And better for the environment, of course.
He's talking about the legal framework across Europe (which is quiet senisible with its limit on steering hours). If you check his main German channel you'll find his recent 7000km trip to the South of Spain and back with a second driver, and that worked out fine as well. I don't get how some people aren't more exited about whats alrady possible with EVs(given we've only put our collective hearts to it fo the past decade or so). If you look how past predictions about price and tech development have all been overtaken by reality I wouldn't be pessimistic about things picking up even further and there eventually being an EV solution even for applications which are currently the refuge for naysayers like big harvesters or large construction equipment. It's more fun being optimistic, nobody wants to invalidate the lifetime achievements of folks who've so far spent their professional lives dealing with things fossile. But decarbonise we must - and quickly
I dont understand one thing. If you haul 10 tons of flowers, and the battery weighs how much 8 tons? Who pays for hauling that much added weight. Because that is 8 hauling extra and 8 you cant load because of the battery weight. I just dont understand the economics of hauling 10 ton batteries around europe when the electricity is about the same cost or more expensive as diesel. Inst it more expensive to haul 1kg with el.trucks in the end? And if the electricity is produced by gas and coal, wich the majority is, wouldnt it be cheaper and more eco friendly just to have natural gas trucks? Because you have losses during production, transfer, and charging. I am pro new things and progress, but it just seems to have extra unnesecary steps with same result, except maybe drivers comfort.
You have to consider that he has no diesel engine to carry around. In the end, the truck weighs a bit more than 2 tons more than a diesel truck. However German (or European law) allows 2 tons of weight more for BEV and FCEV trucks. So they loose nearly no allowed loading. And it turned out for him that more weight does not really affect the consumption (as for cars). About the energy: Germany is already at 60-70% renewables (considering net electricity production). And already has often times with excess renewable production, for what the charging could be optimized. And why should one build infrastructure which is not usable long term? Natural gas cannot be climate neutral. Electricity can.
I'd like to add to the first comment that the 38,5% fossil part of Germany's electricity in the first half of 2024 is not just coal. The individual percentages were 14,6% for natural gas, 20.9% for coal, and 3% "others". Fun fact: burning oil in a power plant to charge BEVs would generally still create less emissions than using ICEVs due to the vastly higher efficiency.
If you assume electromotors are 100% efficient in accelerating and 100% efficient in energy recovery an extra kg doesn't influence energy consumption. Obviously motors are not 100% efficient but ~90%, BUT a diesel engine is 0% efficient in energy recovery.
@@Jonas-fs8nz Anyone who has even idly looked into electric trucks, whether the Tesla Semi or Edison's "Topsy" or anything in between knows that th "weight issue" is bs,; FUD presented by the MSM as part of the bigger campaign to hold back electrification. So he's either a clueless idiot, incredibly naive or ...? Personally, I think he makes his home under a bridge.
I had a piggyback forklift on my truck in the Army, super convenient and we had 8 trucks who shared one forklift.
Yep, you don't need many of them but when you do need one they are super handy.
Love your enthusiasm for the lifestyle and the matter of fact way you present your content. Hello from Perth, Australia.
It is just amazing how fast that truck accelerates l 😮
Love your positivity 👍🙂 Keep up the great work driving and making videos!
Whether we like it or not they are coming. I’m still a full time truck driver at 71. Got my licence in 75/76
I like the lifestyle and the matter of fact way you present your content it is excellent. Hi from Maffra, in the state of Victoria ,Australia.
Two new Milence truck chargers have just opened between Berlin and Nuremberg, the first of many in Germany!
He did a segment on them at the opening, EN auto-subtitles shouldn't be a problem ruclips.net/video/BAxyMhf7ZfY/видео.htmlsi=eMihy93Elypl8bN-
Thank you for another trip around Germany 🍻👍
"EV driving range comparable to a diesel truck" - That's great news! I have been driving a Toyota plug-in Hybrid since 2019, and have come to love driving in EV mode: the vehicle is whisper silent, incredibly energy-efficient, and here in central California, I can charge at home, overnight, for 12¢/kW-hr. This works out to a cost per mile for electricity that is 1/3 the cost per mile for gasoline or diesel fuel, and EV's don't need regular oil changes every 10,000 km. 5 liters of motor oil costs about $25 (25 Euro more or less), so EV's save money there. In a typical EV or PHEV car like my Rav4 Prime, you change the transaxle oil only every 90,000 km. My car uses 4 liters of Toyota WS-ATF fluid that costs about $15/liter. For 90,000km of driving, that cost for transmission oil is negligible. If IVECO can build an electric semi-tractor that can go 4 hours at 100 km/hr, I'd much rather drive an electric than a diesel.
Loved your video, its really interesting to see how things are changing in haulage.
I have only been a BEV car driver for just over 18 months, but I've decided I never want to go back to ICE as its so much more relaxing driving my car, is it the same with trucks?
It's so good to see BEV trucks, I wonder what the future will bring.
I must assume your batteries are fired up via a drive unit... I retired from Nucor Steel Corp in the US I worked in the Maintenace dept. we use a lot of Siemens drives and most everything was run using PLCs I assume your truck motors and battery bank system are using much of he same tech.. So engaging your batteries in phases / stages avoids blowing out your fuses and connectors... like shutting down a mill.. it's done in stages and start up is also done in stages... We had some of the largest electric motors ever built onsite.. General Electric (GE) has built some of the largest electric motors used in steel mills, including motors with power ratings up to 10,000 horsepower (HP). These high-power motors are typically used in main stand motors for rolling mills, which require significant power to drive the heavy machinery involved in steel production
Taking a full minute to reach 60 km/h whilst carrying a partial load must seem like going back in time, after driving around in an electric truck. Times are changing. Thanks for the video. 🙂👍
I want to drive an Electric Truck!
Nice Sunday video 😝
You should try and be the first person to drive an electric semi truck around Australia, although if you look it up Jon Edwards just drove his Hyundai Mighty 7.3 tonne electric truck around Australia. He was doing it the same time as I was doing it in my Polestar 2 in September. My trip took 33 days, backed up by a trip to Tasmania.
Glad you're back! I noticed I didn't have a video to watch last week...
Also, those charge covers are great. I have a Kia Niro EV, and the way Kia has designed them isn't the greatest. They get in the way when you're trying to plug in a CCS2 DC Charging cable.
I wish I was still young enough to do the job, I spent many years tramping around Europe, and the Electric truck would have been a dream to drive, although I suspect Germany Scandinavia and the Netherlands will be the best countries for infrastructure in the coming years, eventually, it will be the norm everywhere. As an advantage for all road users, trucks will be less of a hindrance on hills once they are all electric. Everyone wins.
The trailer you mensioned on 8:20 is a so cald breaker trailer. You can ditch the back half when driving with a 20 feet container
Merci, thank you. From Montreal, Canada.
4:50 Agro trucks are used instead of tractors when the delivery is far from the field, because they can drive faster on the road
2:01 - electric forklifts (ref: Crown Stand-ups and Toyota's forklifts they used to prototype the first Prius 30 years ago) are ideally positioned for all day indoor use inside Warehouses, etc due to their lack of emissions, which technically you would still have when using Propane. again the basic technology already existed 30 years ago, so what we're seeing with EV cars and trucks is simply the fitting of SOFT RUBBER WHEELS (instead of hard polyurethane wheels) to the technology.
Man. You've only been driving for 6 weeks? Lol, feels like it's been longer. Glad to be on the ride
Superb report.
Love these videos.
As a EV mechanic and also Diesel truck mechanic, I can tell you that yes, it's cheaper to run and refuel the EV, however you'll overpay in repairs and maintenance. For example charging 24V system AC to DC converter €2500. The alternator is €400.
AC compressor EV €1900,
for diesel €500.
Charging socket assembly €5000,
for diesel fuel tank cap €45
Everything is more expensive, labour, parts, fluids, diagnostic etc. Repairs cannot be made roadside like a diesel truck, everything is a recovery to dry EV capable workshop. Downtime is weeks not days.
That is almost all to do with the economy of scale, if we had as many EVs as diesel trucks it should be only maybe 10-20% more to repair these things.
These aren't good comparisons, how much oil is used in the electric motor? Will the turbos go? What about the exhaust cleaning system?
@veden3383Please keep your ignorance to yourself. This guy is directly involved with the trucks, he's not sucking data from thin air. Go back to arranging flowers.
Take a look at the Electric, hybrid logging truck Topsy and Edison motors of BC Canada... 100tonne loads...off-road and off the shelf parts and fast maintenance turn round.
All those things sound insignificant compared to hundreds of dollars a day in fuel compared to dozens of dollars worth of electric.
Seems like the days of complex gear boxes are gone for trucks. A bigger electric motor is easier, needs less maintenance and allows for larger recuperation which is crucial for trucks. The decision makers at Mercedes are still stuck in their ICE mindset while the guys at Nikola started with an unbiased concept.
Mercedes has the eActros and he drives an Iveco. No idea how you got Nikola from that
Batteries are expensive af though
isn't as easy as it might seems..
diesel is still cheaper (even before considering that in many contries it has 50 to 70% of tax applied..), it has a solid infostructure, batteries in truck still needs to be proven (you can easily do 1 million km with a diesel truck, we need to see how good will be the status of the betteries, if they can hold that much), has a higher payload capacity (even considering the extra 2 ton regulator gifted to ev trucks), ecc
@@kl1nk0rThe Iveco uses the Nikola truck re skinned as Iveco. They had actually merged their operations but recently separated with Iveco retaining rights to use the IP in Europe and Nikola in North America,.
@@kl1nk0rIVECO produces the NIKOLA trucks in Europe.
The Dutch company which converted Leafs is unfortunately bankrupt
Maxsun?
@derloos Muxsan
@@matroosoft4589 yep, them. Didn’t know they went bust, such a shame! The NZ project to offer CATL upgrade batteries didn’t really take off either…
When I drive my simple E Berlingo it is a pleasure and relaxing.I have been around cars more than 50 years and these E Motors are the best.Get the charging infrastructure right in the UK and people won't go back to combustion.
Battery swapping would be more practical, can go to full charge battery in minutes.
@@devbropa-wy1xl But very cumbersome technically and harder to scale. Also more expensive per km.
@@Simon-dm8zv You should look up battery swapping station for cars, its pretty easy. Its all automatic. Same tech can be applied here.
@@devbropa-wy1xlpretty sure you would have to develop a universal platform for all cars to be built on for that to work outside of those one-model proprietary stations for Chinese cars - good luck getting manufacturers to agree on that
@@devbropa-wy1xl Yeah the systems from Nio are pretty nice. Still the infrastructure is expensive and complex. Building chargers is a lot easier and requires far less maintenance.
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That trailer will never ride with more than 3 axles down.
In case 2 x 20 feet shipping containers are transported, that trailer can be split up in 2 pieces. This way the doors of the front shipping container can be opened to load/unload at a loading dock.
The truck has 3 axles in case the front 20 feet shipping container is heavy and the back one is light. So all axle weight stay within limits.
I drive a dirty diesel DAF Truck like the one you have just driven 😮 So watching you in this E Iveco is really interesting 🤔 I retire next year so the chance of me driving one is nil 🤪 How’s the difference in cost between electric compared to diesel? Love your video especially as you’ve taken the time to translate it to English 🏴 Cheers Stevie 👍🏻
ps putting emojis in your sentence makes you look and sound like a child...
Here in central California, we have a not-for-profit Municipal electric company. Their overnight rate for residential EV charging is 10¢/kW-hr from October 1 to May 31, and 12¢/kW-hr from June 1 to September 30. In a typical EV car like a Tesla, Nissan Leaf, Chevy Bolt, or Toyota BZ4X, the electric power costs about 4 to 5¢/mile. In a similarly sized gasoline Hybrid, like a Prius, you would pay about 7¢/mile, and in a non-Hybrid, like a Subaru Outback, 14¢/mile.
In the IVECO semi tractor shown in this video, it takes 750 kW-hr for a full charge, to go 400 miles. That's 1.9 kW-hr/mile, or 47.5¢/mile at 25¢/kW-hr. Compared to a diesel truck getting 5 miles per gallon, diesel fuel costs $4.50/gallon, so that's 90¢/mile. The EV truck doesn't need engine oil changes costing $400 every 25,000 miles, so you save money there, too. In Europe, diesel fuel costs $9.00/gallon, so an electric truck would be 4 times less expensive, assuming charging at the same 25¢/kW-hr.
5:56 before a certain time and according to many laws(for cars at least) it wasnt required that the brake lights come on because(in the case of a car) there is only two wheels being affected and its not the service brakes. My 2008 Prius(that I am sitting in currently to stay out of the rain) also doesn't activate brake lights on regen either. However, in my case I don't have much regen before the service brakes start to apply so its not a problem.(But it does bother me too!)
I remember reading something from about a year ago about how the way the text of the law actually prohibits brake lights during regen breaking. But I can't remember where in the world it related to
Love your content, do you do the voice-over yourself or? Is your German audience bigger than the English-speaking? Keep up the awesome work, and trucking 💪🏽
OMG, his German channel blew up to 38k in six months, is all the rage in relevant circles and he was name dropped by our federal minister of economy Robert Habeck. There's nothing better and up to date out there anywhere (forget about those Edison guys ; )
If you wanna skip ahead and see his 7000km journey to Malaga in Souther Spain and back you should watch the DE channel with EN auto-subtitles, works great youtube.com/@elektrotrucker?si=IqUt3iXpIoc9gNPv
as far as I know the english translation voice is AI and the script is also translated automatically, but looked over by a human to ensure it doesn't have nonsense in it
Great content, very interesting and thanks for the English translation!
Yea he said it was a AI elevenlabs voice, which they check over before releasing. That surprised me. It's really good quality with natural intonation and pronunciation (for what I assumed was simply a non-native speaker), especially with all these proper names. They're definitely doing good checking work on the backend, I think.
Love this channel, but your title on this one is a little misleading... you only got a truck license to drive electric in the first place, and you have only driven electric since you got your license, so there is no diesel back to go to...
and why should there be (fyi he's been toying around with provocative titles lately to broaden his audience ;). He did his truck license on ICE trucks too and the company - althoug converting their fleet - still has 50+% Diesel trucks to be sold off before it becomes a loss.
We can't afford to wait for each and every one whos spent his entire life being invested (literally and emotionally) in ICE tech to achieve de-carbonisation in the road based transport sector, so new guys who are drawn to it because they like EVs and what iportant part they play are welcome.
Would be great if you could post some clips of your channel on your LinkedIn, like from the acceleration. Bet they would do good there!
In my experience destination charging costs
A forklift should be able to have a super small battery. So the cost shouldn't be that big. Jungheinrich already have electric forklifts for warehouse applications
An hour of runtime would be loads & charge it from the main battery.
Sounds like a perfect fit.
What there needs for you and your e-Trucker colleagues is truck charging stations with the new MCS standard so you won't hog a charger say overnight it'll fill up your battery as fast as a EV car and cars can't use them as it's a different connector to CCS. You should use your audio from your camera instead of doing VO as means we can hear what it sounds like inside your truck when you're driving and the other ambient noises. Fantastic to watch another of your videos. I'm not a trucker just a EV nerd. :)
He keeps adressing MCS but sofar has concluded that with the way things are (i.e. limited driving times, 600+kWh batteries) whats really needed are al LOT of 350+kW capable CCS truck chargers with enough space, He just did a segment on the new Milence truck charger
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check out his original German account from which these vid are derived. Switch to automatic EN subtitles, works great and you're more up to date on his latest endevour : )
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I guess the solar panels are not fully set up but some of the cables lying on the ground and the inverter on a pallet does'nt look too good...
Driving electric from 2014. Also i will never ever switch back to the IC. It’s just old technology, which in 10 years will be forgotten. No one will produce any more IC cars/trucks in that time. it’s just enorm waste of money on the fuel/service.
wrong. sorry but you are mistaken...
@ Here in Scandinavia IC are almost dead. In 10 years no one will produce any more IC cars. In just 3-4 years China will be world leader in car production and many legit car brand names will be dead.
Are you a 'betting man'???
@@thetraveller869 Do not need to bett, everyone who understand even a little bit about car industry knows that.
Dream on... ICE will still be used in 50 years time.... EV will take over in cities, but in many countries, there is simply no charging infrastructure for EV Trucks.
What's the maximum grade at full load it can do 80 km/h?
Each string must be limited to 1000V not 100V I guess 😂❤
Yea that surprised me for a sec, then I was like, eh. I'm bad at math so whatever haha
Would be nice to hear more of the truck. What about the batteries clicking that you love? How about hearing it on the highway? There was one spot where you overtook but that was about it.
OMG HE SWITCHED TO DIESEL...!!! "DAMN YOU TOBIAS...!!! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL...!!!" (Charlton Heston punches sand on the beach)
I've followed ETs ECs EBs E trucks car bikes.. EMs motorcycles for years now. It appears that the 64 cents per kwh is an average charging rate in several countries. I hope the rates can reflect a balance as well as an affordable rate across the board... making electric transportation a reasonable choice benefits everyone. BTW in SC charging at home runs about 10 cents per kwh...
Surely a piggyback battery you could use to add range to the truck would make more sense.
didn't you watch the videos, the limiting factor is NOT the battery but rather the legal driving hours in Europe, and he uses the mandatory 45min brakes to top up during the day. He does talk about self powered trailer a bit in later episodes on the German channel, but so far running out of juice hasn't been an issue at all
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Another interesting video, thank you. BUT those wing mirrors, can they get any bigger??!!
They look pretty standard to me? At least for Euro trucks
@ they look old fashioned. I see trucks with cameras for mirrors which may be better for an electric truck. So much smaller. Cheers.
What happens if you can not charge for any reason. You will be stuck. I think a review after a few years might be more realistic.
Worst case, get another car or generator to come out for 15 minutes and provide an extra 2%, then get to the charger. But like he's shown, generally, he's not getting that close to 0%. He has stay within driving time regulations, which means he has plenty of time to charge - even when the chargers aren't ideal or don't work, which he's shown as well. Lots of ways to get around issues on trucking routes.
Wait until something breaks, and you wait weeks (or months) for your truck to be repaired (if ever).
Alex from TechnologyConnections did a video (maybe last year?) about the brake lights not coming on when using regen braking. He was scathing in that review (US of course) and rightfully so. Very very unsafe and clearly something that needs to be changed. If a truck is (rapidly!) decelerating, the people behind you should know.
Might be interesting to do a back to back comparison with a Tesla truck.
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It’s too early yet for you to be experiencing problems, a relative of mine works for Jaguar in the UK, he had one of the new jags and said the same, he commented on how fast it was etc etc, in less than twelve months it was gone and he returned to an ICE car which he still has to this day. I don’t think the technology is quite there yet, maybe another ten years or so when technology has progressed and we have the infrastructure to cope, it may be viable, but not yet!!
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I love watching you and learning about electric trucks. There is a lot of opposition to electric trucks. I can wait to try one! I am a truck driver too here in USA. Stay safe!
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That's rubbish... it's doesn't take an ICE truck 1 minute to get to 60kph
Funny how this is the same thing, but gets none of the hate the electric truck from the ‘other company’ gets. It’s almost like it’s nothing to do with the truck.
Thanks for the awesome videos! Does the energy that your solar roof box generates sufficiently offset the reduced efficiency from the additional drag it creates?
It would be interesting to see how the batteries hold up with a mileage of 500,000 km or more and when it's -20°C or colder outside.
on his German main channel he adresses how battery losses for heating up the battery can be minimised with conditioning the battery while still plugged in when he's getting ready to set off.
There are small cars that the batteries have 3-500 thousand miles and have no problem yet. Do you think that a battery 6-10 times biger can't handle one or two million?
@@chrishar110 There are examples of Teslas that have driven up to 1 million km with the battery replaced 3-4 times, and examples where passenger cars have driven one battery 600-700,000 km.
I’m asking because, typically, a truck engine has a lifespan of about 1 million km before requiring a major overhaul, after which it can run another 500,000 to 1 million km.
I’m wondering about the lifecycle of electric trucks. At the same time, the entire automotive industry seems to be moving towards a model where we should only own cars for 3-5 years.
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But he also needs 5-8 times the energy. So that compensates a lot, what counts are the battery cycles.
But the truck battery should have much less stress, especially as it charges only with 0.5 C.
@@Jonas-fs8nz When a truck has 500-800Kwh batteries and around 800- 1000Kw output and charging rate is at least 1-2 C
I don't care about the different between different types of vehicles ice or ev, it's being told what to do by government is the issue. If these are so good why do the government have to force them on us.
What were you delivering? Feathers?
It is amazing that some people watching this have sat at home and by power of logic alone have proved beyond doubt that electric vehicles cannot possibly work. The whole field of electrical engineering will immediately end when this fact becomes widely known. Michael Faraday will be denounced and Nikola Tesla will be discredited.
Its early days... the technology and infrastructure are making headway and new improvements on a daily basis.
If you're hoping electric vehicles will fail then you're in for a huge disappointment... !
8:30 never seen a 5 axle truck? Servitude saying German doesn’t have those? The Nederlands have them a lot.
Btw gardening transport is the most enjoyable work 😁
just wait untill it breaks in a year and the repair cost is same as a used diesel truck and only certified dealers can fix it
Electric Truck => feeding into the narrative => you're part or the problem!
Also, I don’t mind electric trucks. But it’s a shame that they replace normal truck parking to electric chargers parking….
No need to mention Milles in these videos.
Hey Tobias . When was this video taken and downloaded? It seems to be high temperature for this time of the year.
his EN channel lags behind a couple of months (because of the added voiceovers on the original German videos)
Plenty of cold temp stuff in his up to date main channel which you can enjoy with auto-subitles
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Can we get 60 fps videos
Im sure that electric is the eventual way but it will take a long time
So just for information how much does truck drivers get in Germany ! Uk is 18 uk pounds hour ! Max for the truck you are driving it far more difficult in the uk. In traffic volume ! I save lots gas on German motorways because there no stopping and start !
Do you habe any idea how many electric trucks are in operation in Germany or Europe? Anyone tracking those numbers?
not many. range is still to short and the cost is still too high.
A few thousand right now in whole Europe. The manufacturers didn't start the production lines fully yet.There are many customers waiting but they wait for the charging infastracture to follow. The range is enough for a single shift and you save a lot of money from maintenance and when you charge in your yard at nights.
I would like that too, if someone wanted to pay me more to deliver less on longer time. Sosialistic win win mathematics.
Btw charging is expensive!!
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Hi, I am pushing 80 yrs old, and former truck driver, I could drive that unit easy and much safer, it's the future! Your presentation is first class and so is your inpeccable English, well done😊
Im a retired tanker driver and the refineries will never allow a EV truck into the loading area.
This is delusional nonsense, not least because of the amount of energy it takes to charge one of these truck batteries (equivalent to powering a small town), and the fact that batteries have comparatively low energy density.
And you prefer diesel that uses only 30-35% of the chemical power to move the truck and all the rest is heat, fumes and pollutes that go to atmosphere? It's proven that it's not effecient.
Don’t kid yourself. Ultimately, it comes down to the primary source of power and BYU’s.
@@dipladonic I don't kid myshelf, it's so simple a diesel needs 25 liters of diesel to make 100km, that's about 225KWh, and it can make the same distance with 120Kwh of power from it's batteries.
If you went back you'd have to change the name of the channel.
When we get to 50% ELECTRIC trucks good luck trying to get charged if we reach 100% not a cat in hells chance, same or even worse for cars enjoy it while you can.
Show me the batteries.
My truck has a tri axle.
7:34 hey, fahren durch reutlingen ist verboten :)))
Appreciate the english voice over, but I do wish the OG video was english to start. Its just more natural to watch
The charging times are defo making you loose a lot out of the 15h daily limit (3 p/week), at the start of the video charging from 24% to 88% took 1h 21min (that's roughly 2 x 45min breaks) to gain just under 400km, it takes roughly 1 sec p/L with diesel i.e. it would have taken you 500 to 600 seconds to fill up a tank and have between 1400 to 1800km depends on the load which it is easily 2 days worth off fuel. Who is paying the extra 3h p/day (1.5h to charge 65%) on those days when you don't find a charger at night or if you're doing a longer trip (over 700km) and need the extra energy? We defo need more infrastructure and possibly faster chargers or perhaps chargers at loading/unloading points? I personally don't see the improvement here, 5 minutes to fill a diesel tank that will give me 2 days of work versus 3+h everyday just to charge the batteries... not to mention the troubles to even get to charger point...
P.s. appreciate your content, as a fellow trucker in the UK I'm fascinated from the development of our industry and the new technologies coming out of it
Your calculations are off. He starts the day with 100%, that equals +500km. During mandatory rest he tops up. Often he has to wait for unloading/loading slots. He did trips +700km always stopped driving time, not the battery. If he would have a smaller battery, then you would be right. But not with that IVECO
@@larsradtke4097 and the only time this became an issue is when he went all the way down to Spain (main channel in German which is up to date) with a second driver, and even then there were limits to what overall driving time was legal vs. what could have been done if no charging were required.
All that electricity, with at least 80% of it generated through fossil fuels..
Its like eating a Big Mac, but wrapping it in lettuce first.
Progress, I guess..
Power plants are way more efficient than what cars and trucks get. And if the nuclear energy fear mongering ended we could maybe have plentefull clean energy too.
@@epicgamer42069 Not wrong..
@SubjectiveFunny In the UK, about 27% of electricity is generated from fossil fuels. What country do you refer to?
A diesel needs 3 times more energy than an electric truck. So even if you need twice the amount of diesel to produce the electricity, you need less. Btw. ever heart of Diesel-electric trains? That is decades old and is used because of higer efficiency.
Seems to me that you have a higher cost per km compared to a diesel, you are around 50€ to 70€ for 100km, while diesel is around 40€ (which is 20% cheaper)
what are your thoughts about that? also considering that 50% to 70% of the costs of diesel are tax, while electricity for transport is still without specific tax
nah, you must've gotten that wrong. He's done multiple explanations on this, it brings imediate and longt term savings over Diesel. The key message being that in the professional transport sector its all about total cost of ownership anyways which favours electric trucks too (less maintenance, no road toll).
And where are you getting that not-paying-for-the-transport-of-electricity thing from? It makes for a sizeable part of the price you pay per kWh
@@velotill he is putting data on the video when he charges. and prices are 20% to 80% more that a comparable diesel. and other costs (maintenance, ecc) cannot add that much.
no road toll is not everywhere and is clearly a political incentive, it is almost certain that it won't be there forever
every EU country has specific "excise duties" on diesel which are different for heat, agricoltura and generic transportation use, these are still not being put on electricity used in charging station
for example in Italy diesel today is 1.60€/liter of which 0,62€/liter are excise duties. it would be 0,9€/liter with usual VAT. try to do the calculation on how much would an ev truck would cost if the same duties are applied
So I did think you had speed cameras in Germany it only has the witching hour mid night when there no speed limit lot work for fire service cut people out of cars ! Let me no if want in Germany 🇩🇪 strange thing be British but be pass end of December the same highway to speed cameras heaven Austria Andrea’s
Time you gave your dog more of a staring role. He’s part of the team so let’s hear more about him/her.
Please keep at least one hand on the wheel at all times, ideally both. I'm surprised the police haven't prosecuted you for dangerous driving and your employer still employs you. Do you consider yourself a safe and professional driver?
Not so much gras grows under the solar panels 😅
Yes, lots of things grow under solar panels. Look up "agrivoltaics" or search for "cattle under solar"
wrong, plenty of stuff is able to grow under PV panels out on the field. If its a classic set-up you may have sheep, more modern approaches in agri-voltaics use vertical set-ups with tracks for tracktors in between. LOTs of research being done right now
BS Prpaganda - EIectric trucks are useIess, try hauIing 25 t0nnes in an EV see h0w far y0u get
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I know the reason for the AI voice over, but damn, it's annoying.
We moved to EVs completely. They are a blast to drive, charging is easy and convenient, and they are so quiet compared to ICEs. And better for the environment, of course.
How old is your dog? Too old to come jogging with you?
It´s all depands on what routes youre driving. Don´t get a illusion that it works for everyone. I Like the Natural Gas Variants better. Better range..
He's talking about the legal framework across Europe (which is quiet senisible with its limit on steering hours).
If you check his main German channel you'll find his recent 7000km trip to the South of Spain and back with a second driver, and that worked out fine as well.
I don't get how some people aren't more exited about whats alrady possible with EVs(given we've only put our collective hearts to it fo the past decade or so).
If you look how past predictions about price and tech development have all been overtaken by reality I wouldn't be pessimistic about things picking up even further and there eventually being an EV solution even for applications which are currently the refuge for naysayers like big harvesters or large construction equipment. It's more fun being optimistic, nobody wants to invalidate the lifetime achievements of folks who've so far spent their professional lives dealing with things fossile. But decarbonise we must - and quickly
I dont understand one thing. If you haul 10 tons of flowers, and the battery weighs how much 8 tons? Who pays for hauling that much added weight. Because that is 8 hauling extra and 8 you cant load because of the battery weight. I just dont understand the economics of hauling 10 ton batteries around europe when the electricity is about the same cost or more expensive as diesel. Inst it more expensive to haul 1kg with el.trucks in the end? And if the electricity is produced by gas and coal, wich the majority is, wouldnt it be cheaper and more eco friendly just to have natural gas trucks? Because you have losses during production, transfer, and charging. I am pro new things and progress, but it just seems to have extra unnesecary steps with same result, except maybe drivers comfort.
You have to consider that he has no diesel engine to carry around. In the end, the truck weighs a bit more than 2 tons more than a diesel truck. However German (or European law) allows 2 tons of weight more for BEV and FCEV trucks. So they loose nearly no allowed loading. And it turned out for him that more weight does not really affect the consumption (as for cars).
About the energy: Germany is already at 60-70% renewables (considering net electricity production). And already has often times with excess renewable production, for what the charging could be optimized.
And why should one build infrastructure which is not usable long term? Natural gas cannot be climate neutral. Electricity can.
The economic incentive is that diesel trucks must pay 34.8 ct toll / maut on the highway. Electric trucks do not yet need to pay that.
I'd like to add to the first comment that the 38,5% fossil part of Germany's electricity in the first half of 2024 is not just coal. The individual percentages were 14,6% for natural gas, 20.9% for coal, and 3% "others". Fun fact: burning oil in a power plant to charge BEVs would generally still create less emissions than using ICEVs due to the vastly higher efficiency.
If you assume electromotors are 100% efficient in accelerating and 100% efficient in energy recovery an extra kg doesn't influence energy consumption.
Obviously motors are not 100% efficient but ~90%, BUT a diesel engine is 0% efficient in energy recovery.
@@Jonas-fs8nz Anyone who has even idly looked into electric trucks, whether the Tesla Semi or Edison's "Topsy" or anything in between knows that th "weight issue" is bs,; FUD presented by the MSM as part of the bigger campaign to hold back electrification.
So he's either a clueless idiot, incredibly naive or ...? Personally, I think he makes his home under a bridge.