Even Semi Trucks going Hybrid

[Automate]

Freightliner ... Its loaded 65,000-pound semi returned 12.2 mpg during a real world highway test, 115 percent better than the average truck on the road today.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2015/03/26/freightliner-supertruck-hauls-goods-sips-fuel/

 

Edited May 12, 2016 by Automate

[GrySql]

A local Uniform/Linen supplier has been running 100 Ford Hybrid Walk-in Vans for a few years now, I see them around our area.

http://www.worktruckonline.com/channel/fuel-management/news/story/2010/05/cintas-orders-set-of-100-hybrids-for-calif-fleet.aspx

 

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/azure-dynamics-receives-100-unit-balancetm-hybrid-electric-walk-in-van-order-from-cintas-corporation-94909964.html

[acdii]

FedEx has Electric vans for city delivery too.

[Easy Rider]

FedEx has Electric vans for city delivery too.

In my sub-division/community they use golf carts. :drool:

[B25Nut]

There is more info on the SuperTruck here: http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1097471_daimler-unveils-supertruck-12-mpg-semi-is-more-than-twice-as-fuel-efficient

Daimler is the one who developed it with the help of a $40 million Federal grant.

[hybridbear]

UPS has some hybrid delivery trucks in MN. Many of the UPS/FedEx trucks here run on natural gas. The semi is really neat. I wonder why it isn't street legal as designed.

[acdii]

Semi trucks have a lot of safety features that have to be part of the rig. All the brakes use compressed air which is produced off a direct drive compressor on the diesel engine. It could be that the hybrid semi may not have a constant run direct drive compressor, and that would make it not legal for the streets.

[Automate]

Here is another hybrid semi that is actually going into production http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2016/05/11/nikola-motors-sleek-hybrid-semi-is-tesla-trucks/?intcmp=hpbt4

 

6 wheel all electric drive, no transmission, gas turbine to charge the batteries, 320kWh mean battery pack.

 

Edited May 12, 2016 by Automate