threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksM to Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.netEnglish · 26 days agoRenault E-Tech T semi truck gets 600 km range for '25, logs 19 million mileselectrek.coexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up128arrow-down10
arrow-up128arrow-down1external-linkRenault E-Tech T semi truck gets 600 km range for '25, logs 19 million mileselectrek.cothreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksM to Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.netEnglish · 26 days agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squareShadowRam@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·26 days ago600km… yeah but hauling how much weight? Overhead Wires on long haul highways from distribution centre to distribution centre. Battery for the last mile… Or batteries need to be hot-swappable, or make them apart of the trailer. Sitting in a yard charging while waiting for pick up.
minus-squarePatrickYaa@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·26 days agoWhat would be even better than overhead wires on long haul highways would be overhead wires over rail!
minus-squarerotkehle@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up6·26 days agonow that idea is just too crazy to imagine. it sounds too much like a technology of the future…
minus-squaremomocchi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·26 days agoI was about to say if we keep going down the overhead wire route we’ll just end up reinventing the train
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·25 days agoRails preclude the “last mile delivery” though. A BEV lorry with a pantograph could do both.
minus-squarePatrickYaa@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·25 days agoAnd 600km is plenty range for last mile deliveries
600km… yeah but hauling how much weight?
Overhead Wires on long haul highways from distribution centre to distribution centre.
Battery for the last mile…
Or batteries need to be hot-swappable, or make them apart of the trailer.
Sitting in a yard charging while waiting for pick up.
What would be even better than overhead wires on long haul highways would be overhead wires over rail!
now that idea is just too crazy to imagine. it sounds too much like a technology of the future…
I was about to say if we keep going down the overhead wire route we’ll just end up reinventing the train
Rails preclude the “last mile delivery” though. A BEV lorry with a pantograph could do both.
And 600km is plenty range for last mile deliveries