Re: IPLT Rhino 5536 electric truck unveiled in India Quote:
Originally Posted by GTO Nice effort ![Thumbs Up](https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/images/smilies/thumbs up.png) , but ahead of its time. |
Beg to differ, this couldn't have come sooner, its a brilliant idea. Quote:
Originally Posted by GTO 200-300 km range means 150 - 200 km if you bring in traffic, overloading etc. |
Overloading will affect range, traffic, not so much, you see the benefits of regen, batteries being able to deliver more current and efficiency at low discharge rates, and overall power consumption being lower at lower speeds all accumulate. I'm not saying traffic will increase range, but because of these side benefits, range wont deteriorate so much. Quote:
Originally Posted by GTO That kind of range isn't even acceptable to most city commuters, leave aside highway workhorses. |
So what they are actually targeting is the short haul market for transport of aggregate, sand, limestone etc. which is why a dump truck, and not a box truck.
So think about is this way, a truck leaves from a quarry, reaches its destination, dumps it load and returns empty. Returning empty is what most trucks in these situations do. From what I understand diesel trucks wouldn't be able to save any meaningful fuel here because of diesel efficiency at part load, but it is not so with motors. So lets take the average of 200 & 400 that is 300 km. Usually each trip is maximum of 100 kilometres one way. This will take a minimum of 6 hours per round trip. So even in the worst case scenario just charge it every two trips along with driver shift changes. Best case scenario would be utilising waiting times at source/destination. Quote:
Originally Posted by GTO These big batteries will also take an enormous amount of time to charge via a portable charger, and there are no public charging stations yet. |
Partially answered above. In all likelihood this should happened with custom chargers at the owners end. Quote:
Originally Posted by GTO Electric trucks will make a lot of sense once battery tech evolves (which it is rapidly) and there's a network of highway chargers (which is also poised to happen but will take years). |
Agree, apart from the will take years part, because the way I see it, once there is sufficient scale, a few charging points every 50 kilometres or so shouldn't be an issue. When this happens, consider that truck drivers need to mandatorily take a break of about an hour, hour an half every, 4 hours of drive, I bet they would thank Gods for bringing that relief in their life.
P.S. Although, they might not like it so much if they aren't able to skim anything on diesel expenses.
Last edited by SRT_Dwarka : 23rd September 2019 at 15:48.
Reason: Adding P.S.
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