Re:Hyundai rolls out 27 heavy-duty hydrogen trucks in Germany
by jillesvangurp on Friday August 05, 2022 @03:15AM
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You need to think in miles not cycles. How many hundred thousands of miles will the battery last until it needs replacing? Most ice trucks kind of do up to about three quarters of a million miles before they head for the scrap yard. Maybe a bit more if you take good care of it. By that time they will have consumed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of fuel and needed lots of maintenance to replace lots of its moving parts.
Batteries look pretty good when you consider that you can charge them a few thousand times before they degrade to below 80% of their original capacity. Electricity is of course not free but can be sourced a lot cheaper than diesel. The savings on that probably create a pretty nice budget for replacing the entire truck. But it might be cheaper to replace the battery and drive it for another few hundred thousand miles.
The economics of this don't favor diesel engines. That's why electrical trucks and vans are so much in demand right now with companies operating fleets of these commercially.
Batteries look pretty good when you consider that you can charge them a few thousand times before they degrade to below 80% of their original capacity. Electricity is of course not free but can be sourced a lot cheaper than diesel. The savings on that probably create a pretty nice budget for replacing the entire truck. But it might be cheaper to replace the battery and drive it for another few hundred thousand miles.
The economics of this don't favor diesel engines. That's why electrical trucks and vans are so much in demand right now with companies operating fleets of these commercially.