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On Thursday, Daimler announced that it would bring its line of short-haul electric trucks to the US. The United Parcel Service (UPS) will buy the first three trucks, and Daimler is also offering eight trucks to New York City-based non-profits, including the Wildlife Conservation Society, the New York Botanical Garden, Habitat for Humanity New York City, and Big Reuse Brooklyn.
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The Fuso eCanter trucks will have a range of 62 miles (or about 100km) and will be sold in Japan and Europe as well. Daimler said it's only planning on producing 500 trucks in the next year, but it intends to start mass-producing the trucks in 2019. It's unclear how much these trucks cost.The trucks have a load capacity of three and a half tons, Daimler said, with a powertrain that draws on "six high-voltage lithium-ion battery packs with 420 V and 13.8 kWh each."
New York City and the Bronx in particular have asthma rates several times the national average. Many blame the high levels of trucking in the city. Shifting delivery fleets to EVs could help.
(Score: 2) by AndyTheAbsurd on Sunday September 17 2017, @05:48PM
NYC is exactly the niche where a truck with less than 100 miles will be useful. Far north in North Bergen to the southern tip of Manhattan is only 11.4 miles. That means a 62 mile range is plenty to get from a depot in North Bergen to anywhere in Manhattan, and back, and make another run before needing to recharge. Also consider that electric vehicles use less energy when stopped (pretty close to none if there's no radio, no A/C, and it's daylight so you don't need headlights) and require less maintenance, both of which mean savings for the operator.
These are definitely "last (few) mile(s)" delivery type vehicles - and NYC is exactly the environment that they are designed for.
(And I'm not even going to get started on you calling it "Kings" instead of the borough name that everyone would recognize...and it's not even the borough where you'd put a warehouse if you had to put on inside the borders or NYC!)
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