Diesel trucks produce almost double the operations-related CO2 emissions when compared to the battery-electric (which produces 56.9% of a diesel’s CO2 in operation) or the fuel-cell electric ...

The system itself is, by the standards of passenger electric vehicles, some very heavy-duty stuff. Battery packs of either 400 kWh or 600 kWh are employed (a 200 kWh unit is coming later), with ...

Cummins COLUMBUS, Ind. /CSRwire/ - Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI) has commissioned its diesel hybrid solution in partnership with one of China’s leading rigid mining truck manufacturers, North Hauler Joint ...

A mining truck that can operate for up to 20 hours a day, 350 days a year, matching the grueling schedules of conventional diesel-powered vehicles while slashing emissions to zero.

Extra battery packs are like extra diesel fuel tanks. For example, changing from a 100-gallon diesel fuel tank to a 200-gallon fuel tank could give a truck another 700 miles of range between fuel ...

The base price of a Class 8 battery-electric truck is between $350,000 to $500,000, or three to five times that of a diesel. Meanwhile, 13 states and the District of Columbia, representing more ...

The most noticeable advantage of a dual battery setup on diesel trucks is that the vehicle always has a secondary power source in the event that one of the batteries fails. The dual battery setup ...

Carbon reduction company First Mode purchased 80 Bordline energy storage system (ESS), 2.6 MWh lithium-ion battery systems from electrification and automation corporation ABB in May, to help power ...

At a swapping station in Dallas, a trailer with a pre-charged battery inside automatically pulls up to the truck so it can pop in place between the cab and the semi trailer. “That process takes ...