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Electric Garbage Truck To Enter Service in California

“Leading the way for cleaner fleets in California, the City of Sacramento will soon be home to the State’s first all-electric automated left-side loader garbage truck. The fundamental technology powering the Electric Refuse Vehicle (ERV) is Motiv Power Systems‘ scalable and modular All-Electric Powertrain. The Class-8 vehicle will be built on a Crane Carrier chassis, and the body will be built by Loadmaster. The City of Sacramento aims to run the ERV on residential and recycling routes and expects to save as much as 6,000 gallons of fuel per year.”

“Sacramento specified that this ERV must meet the demanding requirements placed on all of its garbage trucks. This includes three routes per day to remove trash, recycling and green waste in a downtown Sacramento neighborhood. To supply enough electricity to move the truck and power the hydraulics all day, the ERV...

iplug Jun 16, 2017 Read More Replies: 7

Hyundai Ioniq hybrid autonomous – first ride

Might be ready by 2021. Impressive. I'd probably get the next version of the Prius if it's also autonomous. Would you?

Hyundai Ioniq hybrid autonomous – first ride | Autocar

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raspy Jun 16, 2017 Read More Replies: 7

2 different experiences

Read 2 different articles today about an hour apart that really highlight the differences in EV's today. When you buy an EV (just like when you buy a phone or computer), you aren't only buying the car itself, but you are buying into an ecosystem/charging system.

The first article was about a guy that had to drive his Bolt back from where he bought it to his home in St. Louis 800 miles away. The main gist was how he had to do a ton of planning, sometimes driving out of his way, to find charging stations.

The other article was about a couple journalists that took a Model X on a cross country trip. It seemed like they weren't necessarily EV people, so they seemed a little annoyed at waiting for the car to charge. But there was nothing in the article about needing to plan ahead or having any trouble finding stations.

2 completely different experiences. Here in the midwest and a lot of places down south, the Bolt doesn't make much sense if you need it for long distance travel.

markabele Jun 15, 2017 Read More Replies: 22