Re:New York EV Garbage Trucks can only snow plow for 4 hours...
by MisterTea on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @03:18PM
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> Turbine is great for steady loads and terrible for cyclical loads which is what a garbage truck does all day.
Right. This would certainly apply to the mechanically coupled turbine truck prototypes from the 70's.
But if its driving a generator then you can let batteries or capacitors handle the cyclic loads of acceleration and have a computer throttle the turbine according to the overall demand.
Right. This would certainly apply to the mechanically coupled turbine truck prototypes from the 70's.
But if its driving a generator then you can let batteries or capacitors handle the cyclic loads of acceleration and have a computer throttle the turbine according to the overall demand.