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Re:Volvo Trucks to launch full range of electric trucks in E... by Unklejoe on Thursday November 05, 2020 @12:44PM (#25000219)
The Volvo page is so much better in my opinion. It's neat with decent information density.

I'm not a fan of pages that try to do the whole dynamic immersive full screen huge picture thing.

Re:Volvo Trucks to launch full range of electric trucks in E... by TooCreative on Thursday November 05, 2020 @12:49PM (#25000270)
The Volvo page has a lot of text. But does it have information?

On the Volvo page, I do not see a single piece of information before I scroll. Instead I see fluff like "We know that many transport operators work hard to reduce the environmental footprint..."

On the Tesla page, I see four pieces of information right away. Acceleration, energy consumption, drag coefficient and that it has four independent motors.

Re:Volvo Trucks to launch full range of electric trucks in E... by Someone on Thursday November 05, 2020 @01:15PM (#25000511)
On the other hand, I don’t think any of the numbers Tesla gives is of direct interest to those who buy such large trucks (with the exception of the D energy consumption, which implies “cheaper to operate”, but what fraction of a truck’s cost is spent on fuel?)

Volvo’s ‘fluff’ at least hints at “this truck may be allowed to enter city centers” and “disability payments to drivers may go down”.

Re:Volvo Trucks to launch full range of electric trucks in E... by kungtotte on Thursday November 05, 2020 @01:38PM (#25000689)
Roughly 1/3 of the operating costs of trucking is the fuel, another 1/3 is wages, and then the remaining 1/3 covers everything else (facilities, maintenance, repairs, purchase cost of vehicles, insurance, etc. etc.).

So ~33% of a truck's cost is spent on fuel.