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Seems a sensible use for electric - last mile short range stuff with lots of stop/start, predictable max mileage, and return to base each night. Much better use case than linehaul or other long range stuff - I can't see that being sensible without a lot of infrastructure investment. As long as they have chargers sorted at the bases it should work (barring people forgetting to plug the thing in which will happen but hopefully not too often).
The range on these is still a bit low for a full days work even in short range urban delivery (claims up to 200km, so maybe 150 you can rely on) so I wonder if they're planning on spruiking for fast chargers at the bases - could fit in a morning and afternoon/evening run that way.
Sad fact that these trucks are running on coal in the end.
where did you see they are running on coal? these are not steam trucks 😅
I meant that most of electricity at night is generated by coal power plants. So ultimately they run on coal. It was a bit of a joke.
Ah, I was going to say tbh even if they do run on coal, it's still better for the environment than running on oil
It needs to be carefully calculated what is better. There is less carbon per joule in oil. But power stations are more efficient than ICUs. But there are transmission and storage losses for electricity. But some electricity comes from wind. But transporting fuel also isn't emission-free. The list goes on. If we only have nuclear, it would solve this dilemma.
I thought it was fairly settled science because petrol cars only use 30% of the energy generated by oil where as EV's are using 90%
Despite the major energy losses, a power plant is still more efficient than a car’s engine. Recall that an internal combustion engine loses around 80% of the energy that goes into it. A coal-burning power plant loses around 68% of its energy. Thus, an EV powered purely by coal still uses less energy than a car powered by gasoline.
https://thedriven.io/2024/01/31/electric-vehicles-use-half-the-energy-of-fossil-fuel-vehicles/
but as you said
But some electricity comes from wind
Yeah, even at our worst times overnight we're not a purely coal powered nation anymore
And we get cleaner every year:

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