http://gas2.org/2016/03/01/oakridge-batteries-power-electric-truck-with-400-mile-range/ Oakridge Batteries Power Electric Truck With 400 Mile Range March 1st, 2016 Steve Hanley
[images http://gas2.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Freedom-Trucking-2.jpg Battery Powered tractor trailer http://gas2.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Freedom-Trucking-1.jpg ] Freedom Trucking of Minneapolis, Minnesota has been working to develop a battery powered electric truck that can haul an 80,000 load 400 miles on a single battery charge. It has been working closely with [Oakridge] Global Energy Solutions of Melbourne, Florida for several years to find a battery that is up to the task. The companies announced last week that they now have a fully operational electric truck propulsion system that will allow Freedom Trucking to send its tractor trailers from Minneapolis to Chicago on a daily basis. Service is expected to begin in the second half of 2016. The battery operated trucks will save Freedom Trucking about 60 cents per mile in fuel and maintenance cost compared to a standard diesel powered rig. That’s according to an analysis by the US Department of Transportation. Freedom Trucking and Oakridge say their electric truck with its specially designed battery systems will completely revolutionize the interstate trucking business in the United States. Diesel trucks are the backbone of American commerce, but they also fill the atmosphere with carbon dioxide, sulfur emissions, nitrous oxides, and particulates from their exhaust pipes. Lowering truck emissions would have a greater overall impact on the nation’s environmental health that buying everyone in America a new Prius. “The custom battery design for Freedom Trucking is an absolute game changer,” said Oakridge Executive Chairman and CEO, Steve Barber. Battery Powered tractor trailer“We are excited to be working with Freedom Trucking and their team on such a revolutionary product. We at Oakridge are continuing our mission to onshore manufacturing back to the US and this is a really big win for all of us. We are reducing carbon emissions, reducing our dependence on foreign oil, and bringing manufacturing back to the US, while at the same time playing a pivotal role in revolutionizing the interstate trucking business. This is a tremendous win for everyone in the USA.” Freedom Trucking has been working on the design of the propulsion system with Ohio State University scientists and others for the past five years. This product has been hampered by poor quality Chinese batteries. But now, full scale production of high quality, “Made in USA” Oakridge battery systems will begin in 2016. “We are all about game-changing technology and products at Oakridge. Oakridge is the “Made In The USA” battery company that has the talent and technology to overcome these types of obstacles for our customers in designing state-of-the-art high performance custom battery systems. With our new custom battery systems, we have now greatly expanded the effective range of the electric truck, now making them a practical reality for immediate application to the interstate trucking business, while at the same time providing a much safer, low maintenance vehicle by virtue of the more robust chemistry and the battery management systems we have designed for this product,” adds Mr. Barber. [© Sustainable Enterprises Media] ... http://oakridgeglobalenergy.com/oakridge-supplying-battery-systems-to-fully-electric-interstate-trucking-in-the-usa/ Oakridge Supplying Battery Systems to Fully Electric Interstate Trucking in the USA ... https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2016/02/24/813658/0/en/Oakridge-Supplying-Battery-Systems-to-Fully-Electric-Interstate-Trucking-in-the-USA.html Oakridge Supplying Battery Systems to Fully Electric Interstate Trucking in the USA February 24, 2016 For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-400mi-Electric-tractor-truck-using-Oakridge-batteries-tp4680779.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
