Re: [EVDL] EVs keep on trucking

2024-11-04 Thread Lawrence Winiarski via EV
Small point about "life expectancy":   It is a statistic that sounds reasonable, but it's probably a lot more difficult to calculate than it at first seems and can be misleading.    For simplified example, suppose you have 10 dogs all born in the same litter.    5 of them die at 10 years old and

Re: [EVDL] EVs keep on trucking

2024-11-04 Thread EV List Lackey via EV
On 4 Nov 2024 at 16:14, Peri Hartman via EV wrote: > The EU generally requires no daily total greater than 9 hours [of truck > driving] ... [in] the US: drivers are allowed up 14 hours per day ... That > essentially requires double the Wh battery. And the EU OTR e-trucks already have pretty

Re: [EVDL] EVs keep on trucking

2024-11-04 Thread Lee Hart via EV
> The EU generally requires no daily total greater than 9 hours and breaks > of at least 15 minutes every 4.5 hours max... > > US drivers are allowed up 14 hours per day and cannot exceed 8 hours > without a break... Honestly, I don't know how 14 hours can be considered safe. Ah, but who said "sa

Re: [EVDL] EVs keep on trucking

2024-11-04 Thread Peri Hartman via EV
"EV List Lackey via EV" To: ev@lists.evdl.org Cc: "EV List Lackey" Sent: 03-Nov-24 21:03:19 Subject: [EVDL] EVs keep on trucking Mainstream truck builders have been introducing electric over-the-road trucks. What are they like to drive? Here are some amateur-produced programs

[EVDL] EVs keep on trucking

2024-11-03 Thread EV List Lackey via EV
Mainstream truck builders have been introducing electric over-the-road trucks. What are they like to drive? Here are some amateur-produced programs made by a driver for the German transport service Nanno Janssen, which is investing heavily in E-trucks. Previously he was associated with Char