Volvo FL Electric has 278 miles range. The Tesla Semi has 500 miles.
That’s are a rigid 16 tonne vehicle, more likely to be used for multi drop deliveries, not the artic that will be flying up and down the motorway in a nose to tail convoy
Volvo FL Electric has 278 miles range. The Tesla Semi has 500 miles.
400 miles has been a more realistic high end figure since it was rolled out. With 300 - 350 miles being more commonplace.Lets use the Tesla Semi. It starts out with 500miles range(ish) fully loaded. So 200 miles down we get a 45 minute break during which it can charge back up probably 50-75% of what it has used. We are now at Glasgow in the same time, but with 200 miles of range left. You have 2 hours and 20 minutes left of permissible driving (based on an average speed of 60mph which is generous) for that day.
I don't see how. After another 160 miles of driving you would have been driving for 9 hours. That's you done for the day at Aberdeen Airport.
Fair enough. The Semi needs about two hours to recharge from near empty back to full. You have driven your 9 hours and can't work. The Semi has driven 560 miles in 9 hours and you have been able to rest for most of it, just doing the loading / unloading and maybe some manual driving at the destination if needed. You are fully rested. After a 2 hours break for recharging the Semi continues on through the night for another 560 miles of driving. You sleep. After 18 hours it has already completed 1120 miles. In 36 hours it can do twice as much, because it doesn't need a human driver all the time. The human hasn't been eliminated entirely in this scenario, but instead the human works as a head of operations. But twice as much has been delivered.
I don't see how. After another 160 miles of driving you would have been driving for 9 hours. That's you done for the day at Aberdeen Airport.
As soon as it becomes more cost effective to run electric HGV diesel will be dead, either by legislation or economics.
I also have a MINI with lane keeping assist and collision avoidance braking. I don’t switch them off. I am not a police qualified driver but I have received two “perfect” IAM driving assessments from a former police driving instructor, who claimed I was the only person he’d ever given that to. Anyway, I leave the systems on but don’t rely on them. The lane assist occasionally vibrates the steering wheel but when it does it’s not a surprise to me, I am expecting it. I’ve never had the autonomous braking activate.
I consider them as a copilot, not a nanny. One day it might spot something I missed, but so far it has been a background system that has had nothing to actually do. I’m not so arrogant in my driving abilities that I believe I can catch everything forever. If anything did happen and it was found that I had disabled safety features, what then of the legal or insurance consequences?
Maybe I wasn't clear enough. The NIGHT SHIFT drove from Heathrow to Glasgow, then went off shift. I was DAY shift, so started at Glasgow on zero hours driving, enabling me to drive to Aberdeen and back within my allowed driving time. Then hand it back to a night shift driver.
PS... An average of 60 mph is indeed generous, given that anything over 7.5 tonnes is electronically restricted to 90 kph (55 mph).
As has been pointed out now, your Volvo is a 16 tonne rigid. So hardly representative of a 44 tonne MGW artic. It is going to go through a battery much quicker. Fit bigger batteries? They are heavy, and will reduce the freight capacity. And freight is what pays the haulier's bills.
Doesn't matter. A human only has two eyes. An automated HGV can have 10, 20, 1000 as many as it needs. It can see all around the lorry at all times and can calculate distances and angles instantly compared to the human brain.You’ve obviously never seen some of the places HGV’s are expected to reverse into,
Doesn't matter. A human only has two eyes. An automated HGV can have 10, 20, 1000 as many as it needs. It can see all around the lorry at all times and can calculate distances and angles instantly compared to the human brain.
Also the Volvo FM is a heavy duty lorry tractor not a rigid.
Maybe I wasn't clear enough. I wasn't using the Volvo as the comparator. I was using the Tesla Semi. This is not rigid and hauls up to 88000lbs. Not every company needs to go 1120 miles in 36 hours though. Tesco are already using EV tractors as are DHL and finding them to be great. Growth in EV HGVs is increasing, so something is going right.
Also the Volvo FM is a heavy duty lorry tractor not a rigid.
https://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/tr...ic-tractor-units-deployed-by-dhl-supply-chain
https://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/tr...-deploys-uk-s-first-electric-articulated-hgvs
https://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/zero-emission-trucks-record-biggest-market-share-of-2023
You’ve obviously never seen some of the places HGV’s are expected to reverse into, as I’m sure @Brandane can attest to having driven the thing’s, I’ve driven 7.5 tonnes and that was bad enough
If anything did happen and it was found that I had disabled safety features, what then of the legal or insurance consequences?
500 mile range is the extended range available, 300 miles is the standard range, according to the Tesla site.Maybe I wasn't clear enough. I wasn't using the Volvo as the comparator. I was using the Tesla Semi. This is not rigid and hauls up to 88000lbs. Not every company needs to go 1120 miles in 36 hours though. Tesco are already using EV tractors as are DHL and finding them to be great. Growth in EV HGVs is increasing, so something is going right.
Also the Volvo FM is a heavy duty lorry tractor not a rigid.
https://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/tr...ic-tractor-units-deployed-by-dhl-supply-chain
https://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/tr...-deploys-uk-s-first-electric-articulated-hgvs
https://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/zero-emission-trucks-record-biggest-market-share-of-2023