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
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
> 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
I had to look that up - breaks and driving times. The EU generally
requires no daily total greater than 9 hours and breaks of at least 15
minutes every 4.5 hours max (my simplified description). So a battery
with enough range for, say 6 hours would probably be adequate, assuming
80% quick charg
