Looking For Advice From Experienced Drivers!!!

They barely have power to cover block heaters at night, let alone heavy power to charge batteries. Plus many LTL trucks run city all day and lunehaul all night, off for two to three hours total each weekday. Not to mention musk himself said there’s no way power grid could handle load if half the CARS in America went electric let alone trucks. Ever check out issues with mining metals required for batteries? Worse than coal. Plus battery disposal/reclamation is very expensive

 

Sure you are qualified , oranges or LEMONS...?
Lady unemployed was gonna do lemons. Interviewed, education,health,etc.
Only problem, any experience picking lemons.
Well I've been divorced three times, voted for Obama twice, and have owned a Chrysler product. Started that afternoon.

 

Not trying to shoot you down or argue. Just to point out the problems.
Food service I see around Tupelo (Sysco) comes down from Memphis and are peddling by 7 in places. Still around town at 4, and got to go home.
Merchants,I believe picks up the pup in West Point, MS (45 miles away), comes here and is peddling about the same time. See them around their stops over the day. Don't know how / when/ where they quit. Still more than
8. Question, will the start and stop for 20+ times use more battery than even terrain, good weather cruising at say 50 MPH. (Safety ya know).
Weight savings someone mentioned... Battery for sit down rider elec truck
of 4000 lbs capacity weighs about 3000 lbs. It is the counterweight. Fuel did
weight about 8 lbs per gallon. Elec truck, take off 300 gal tanks of fuel, (2400)
add a 3000 lb battery and we have lost 600 lbs of capacity and 2 hours of drive time. Again, it is not feasible in the near future. Problem is battery capacity time. Until storage is simplified or more quickly restored we cannot depend on elec powered units to deliver.
Now really.. Could put two batteries in the truck. Throw the switch at 8 and cruise on. At 16, connect two chargers and in 16, roll out. With 6000 less paying load.

 

You're saying block heaters use more juice than a forklift?

In 1895 there was nowhere near enough refineries to be able to handle half the horse riders in America switching to cars. Therefore cars must have been a failure.

 

Maybe I'm wrong but my understanding is many foodservice loads cube out or time out long before hitting max weight. A lot of daycabs I see only have a single drive axle. 90% of my loads could throw on another 6k and still be fine. Again, the fact that it's not good for everyone doesn't mean that it's good for noone. Sort of like how radio and TV continue to coexist.

 

What if.....companies changed the way they currently do things in order to use a new technology available to them? It’s a crazy idea, I know.

 

People hate change. Hell i catch flak and #### constantly for having a "fleet truck" in end dump and buying a lot of electronics such as an external digital scale to mount to the front and rear of my bed so the loader knows my axel weights as he loads.

That said there is a diffrence between GOOD new tech and BAD new tech. Look at the absolute disaster emissions systems have been. New tech needs to reach a point of maturity before its implimented on a wide scale, especially in the transportation industry or you risk throwing the whole system into chaos.

 

Weight is not the problem on this You could throw on that additional 6K. But It is battery life of 8 hours. To leave Memphis(90) miles; drive to Tupelo even empty, peddle around town till about 4 PM, then drive back to Memphis (still 90 miles) on one battery supply.

 

It's not battery life of 8 hours. The 8 hours is how long it takes to charge the battery. If the truck is parked then the batteries aren't doing hardly anything, just like your truck now, and will be good for days or weeks. One nice thing about electrics is they don't need to idle, so even when they're sitting at a red light, they're basically parked. So as long as the stops in Tupelo burn less than 60 miles between them, you're good to go all day and charge overnight.

 

No I’m saying the LTL I spent time at barely had enough places to plug in for block heaters and paid through the nose to add spots as service to power had to be upgraded. Let alone trying to charge trucks. Do try to read more carefully