Truck drivers across Norway are going to be congesting roads by driving at 40kph in the Easter holidays to protest record-high fuel prices caused by the Trump administration.
If a climate activist mentioned the *possibility* of doing this in a group chat they'd be jailed and fined millions within hours
https://www.nrk.no/sorlandet/_dieselbrolet_-er-i-gang-_-saktegaende-trafikk-flere-steder-1.17827420
@ketan
The economics of big electric trucks are less favourable than Diesels.
Thus far.
(6 tonnes of battery reduces payload, and it is payload tonnes cruising at 60mph that governs profitability in trucking)
This may be adjusted, may change, and surely has some use cases (volume loads of light mass?) where it has already changed.
@etchedpixels @Photo55 @ketan less servicing downtime is very valuable, especially if you are not large enough for a large fleet.
Alternative options to make Electric more competitive:
1/ Overhead lines (like electric trains) for sections of motorway meaning you need only a small battery to get you through the gaps and to your destination. Trialed in Germany a few years ago.
2/ Trains...
3. An increase in the speed limit on motorways for electric large trucks of 2 mph (or a reduction of 2mph in the Eurolimiter-governed) limit for Diesel ones, or both.
4. An increase in permitted all-up weight for electric trucks which might need to be 4 tonnes.
With respect, you were looking at the wrong things, nice though they are. Logistics outranks TCO
Some of it is in the conclusions here
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0739885926000247
But Diesel price is very important also.
My apologies.
And that explains why the motorways are nose to tail electric HGVs
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