Changing trucks running on diesel to electric ones seems eco-friendly, as it and will alleviate the pressure on the warehouses, which in some states mandatory have to reduce concomitant pollution.
Electric trucks vs diesel ones
Electric trucks “can compete with diesel ones” with a new approach of extended battery capacity, not the volume and the fast chargers.
Scientists oversaw the conception of heavy electric trucks and decided that a high-power battery would be better than many batteries.
Old electric trucks approach vs. new approach.
Nykvist, B. & Olsson, O. (2021), modeled “battery electric trucks that use high-power fast charging, enabling smaller batteries and showing that the economics of battery electric trucks per ton-kilometer improves with greater weight, driven by increasing load capacity as well as increased energy savings as a function of weight.”
It appears to be true if:
- Operated for 4.5 hours and then charged for 40 minutes on a high-powered device
- Somebody invents the charger (commercial fast charger doesn’t yet exist)
- And there is enough power in the grid. For example, the head of Toyota indicated Japan needed more power to run all-electric cars.
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By the way, the paper’s average counted speed was 40.3902 MPH (65 KMH), which is significantly lower than the average in the US (Statista).
Do electric trucks decrease carbon and nitrogen dioxide emissions
Nitrogen dioxide, yes, as electric trucks do not use diesel.
But with carbon emission, it is more complicated and less transparent. At the same time, may electric vehicles be considered ecological or green is a question. Electricity (about 60%) still comes from fossil fuel sources in the US.
Greenly. resources claims, that according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, manufacturing electric cars emits more carbon emissions. Also, it requires using rare earth elements (REE) such as lithium, nickel, cobalt, and graphite. Mining is carbon-intensive. Mining those elements in other countries, in Congo, for example, negatively affects biodiversity, especially the rainforest’s ecosystem.
According to Greenly. resources, recycling and reusing Li-Ion batteries is a developing area, so we don’t recycle or reuse them effectively (only 10%).
Theoretically, electric trucks may compete with diesel ones, but not in the nearest future. Also, they may not be as green as many think.
Is there anything else that can be done to decrease carbon and nitrogen dioxide emissions immediately?
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Updated 22/11/28