About 180 miles. Useful for some things I suppose.
Wonder what the cost will be for a battery that can haul a 44 tonne truck for 180 miles.
My point being: Its easy to announce that EV trucks are on the way next year, its much harder to make them economically feasible and manufacture them in large quantities.
If major city centres start enforcing tighter congestion/pollution bans, such that last mile delivery of goods to city centres can only be achieved with zero emission vehicles, then suddenly logistics businesses are forced to integrate EV or hydrogen into their fleets.
I honestly don't think this is that unlikely in many European cities in the next decade.
Older Diesel cars also are banned from quite a few city centers, but I don’t know whether that extends to large trucks.
My wife drove rural postal delivery for years. The longest routes would be 150 miles, most of the routes were less than 50 miles. This was rural, low density delivery areas. In cities and suburban areas, routes are even smaller, more like 10-20 miles round trip.
A contractor might have a job site 20 miles from home and make 3 trips to various suppliers during the day.
Seems like that's the sort of service these trucks are targeting and they will have plenty of range for that. Longer haul routes would require a different type of vehicle, but most companies that do both long and short haul have dedicated long haul vehicles regardless.
> Wonder what the cost will be for a battery that can haul a 44 tonne truck for 180 miles.
Big trucks are expensive to maintain. While the initial expense might be higher, ongoing maintenance is much lower and reliability higher. Not having to deal with vehicle downtime is a big issue when that vehicle brings your profits in.
I can't promise that's how Volvo is rating theirs, but A) their customers aren't stupid, and B) the aerodynamics of a truck can mean it gets better mileage around town anyway. Not so much with diesel because of idling and shifting and things, but an EV with regenerative braking is an entirely different animal.
That's in pretty big contrast to internal combustion where it takes more significantly more fuel to go the same distance if you go too slow.
It also alleviates traffic during the day by removing those trucks.
It would be easy for governments to subsidize parts of this for the good of society.
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...