So one of the toughest applications on earth then.
Single drive axle (or tandem with the weight on only one axle) is better on ice or hard packed snow roads. The ground obviously need to be frozen...
That's not a tridrive. It's a steerable tag axle with twin tires, usually a 13 ton axle.
So traction pretty good in mud or sand and bad on packed snow or ice.
Are you allowed to dump the air on individual axles? In Scandinavia you usually order tag tridem trucks with dump valves on the 3rd and 4th axle...
Is hydrodrive a better and cheaper solution in the long run when it comes to service cost and reliability?
Tire wear must be higher as you see much more exploded tires in NA than in Europe. My friend that has had his trucking company for over 30 years,...
The Chinese trucks must a pretty robust driveline as they seems to gross +400 000 punds on regular basis with a 6x4 truck pulling a 4 axle...
Swedish road train. 34 meters, and 98 tons gross weight. [MEDIA]
You will see EV trucks at work in Norway, mostly dump trucks and distribution trucks.
Mercedes SK 3550 still going strong Greece pulling a CAT 992K. [MEDIA]
Less is more is obviously an unknown expression within thai truckers.
I think we have to remember that there are lots of places in central Europe where the distance between terminals are less that 500km/300 miles....
Battery will work fine once they have a working swapping system so instead of charging you get a "new charged battery" in your tuck and off you go...
How much is a conversion like this?
I agree. But it can be zero emission where and when it's operating and that can never happen with a combustion engine.
Cheaper for sure. But if you need a zero emission truck, battery is the only solution. The cab looks like something from the 60's.
Who buys a 389 with a diesel price of almost 5$?
[IMG] Sweden Now it's 24,77Kr/L in many places. Which is about 9,65 USD per gallon.
The SLP trailer will load about 37,5 tons. These usually have 8mm Hardox in the bottom and 6mm in the sides so you can load rocks in them which...
