The Ginaf company is building electric driven distribution trucks by the name Duratruck. These trucks are based on Mercedes-Benz Atego trucks and they get a completely new electric driveline. The one on the pictures is a E2114 Duratruck that was delivered recently to the Hulshoff company in Amsterdam. The truck has a 270 kW electromotor…… Continue Reading
President-elect Trump digging coal or not, in the US there are several firms developing eletrically driven vehicles. We already mentioned Tesla developing a fully electric pick-up, but meanwhile, there’s also the Workhorse Group having a pick-up under development that will hardly need gas. Hardly, because the Wotrkhorse W15 has a small range extender supplying energy…… Continue Reading
Toyota Motor Corporation will begin to sell fuel cell buses (FC buses) under the Toyota brand from early 2017. Having already undergone repeated field tests for practical use, the Bureau of Transportation of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government plans to utilize two of these FC buses (model name: Toyota FC Bus) as fixed-route buses. Toyota plans…… Continue Reading
Dutch company Emoss presents the E.V.E.R truck, an 18 ton tractor with electic power and a range extender. Together these two make a range of 900 km possible. The CNG engine is from a GM passenger car and it provides electrical power for the main engine of 320 kW. With the 120 kVh battery package…… Continue Reading
The American Army has invested 2,7 million dollars in British company Quintiq. This company specialises in electric vehicle drivesystems where the electric motors are mounted in the wheel hubs. The US army appears to be very aware of the savings potential of such compact drivesystems. Should military vehicles be electrically driven on a large scale,…… Continue Reading
The Chinese company Dayun Motors has released photo’s of a fully electrical driven delivery van. The truck has a special design and shure stands out in a crowd. The power comes from a 30kW electric motor that is powered by Lithium bateries. The maximum speed is sayd to be an impressive 105 km/h but there…… Continue Reading
Belgian producer of trailers and busses Van Hool got an order from the city of Hamburg for two full electrical driven Exqui City vehicles. These are ‘trambusses’ as Van Hool names them, but basicly they are modern trolley busses. The difference is that these Exqui City busses don’t need a powerline along the whole route. The…… Continue Reading
The French national mailservice ‘La Poste’ and Renault Trucks are testing the Renault Maxity truck with a fuel cell added to the electric driveline. Hence, the heavy batteries can stay away and the Maxity can theoretically drive about 200 km on one tank of hydrogen. The fuel cell considerably increases the range of the Maxity,…… Continue Reading
Shortly after announcing D-Series trucks to be equipped with engines running on CNG and on Biodiesel, Renault starts a practice test in Paris with a fully electrically driven D-Series truck which has a GVW of 16 tonnes. Prefume maker Guerlain and the Paris region carrier Speed Distribution Logistique have joined forces with Renault Trucks to…… Continue Reading
Scania is testing a hybrid solution with an overhead powerline. This way the G360 can run on diesel on the long motorway legs while in town the truck can be driven electricaly. Scania is working with Siemens in Germany with the powerline system. Another solution is an electric magnetic field in the road. That system…… Continue Reading
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