E-Trucks keep getting better, and I can't wait till my next one gets delivered

[@Z.o.r.a.n]

I think the trucks should have a charging connector on both sides.

[@williamfence566]

UK HGV driver:- We have 2 electric DAF 18T rigids on test where i work . They are used for town center and local deliveries at night to not annoy the neighbours. Talking to the drivers they really like the instant torque and quiet travelling but we have had a couple of breakdowns where the range just plummeted whilst out and about.

[@wobblysauce]

The noise... it is so quite.

[@johndoe1909]

live the positive attitude and constructive suggestions of improvements both o laws and regulations as well as on the equipment, top notch, I share and recommend!

[@MegaKrustyman]

Thanks for another great ride along and the DAF show coverage! It's great that the manufacturers are engaging with their customers and providing personalised support.

[@Supernaut2000]

Wonderful channel, I am now subscribed!

[@MarkJHEllis]

Another great video looking at the life of an e-Trucker.

[@yvindaadde8387]

Thank you so much! Your videos are great! Your knowledge, curiosity and enthusiasm are really inspiring!!

[@steveb.5617]

Love your show.

[@General18]

25:00 ok, NOW I understand what you mean with sounding like a jet engine XD

[@harvardan]

Why is it so loud? Is that a fan for cooling or something?

[@General18]

@@harvardan It's the fan that's part of the watercooling system for the batteries, and because it has just been charged, it's still cooling the batteries 🙂

[@davidgalcock]

I love your videos, really look forward to them. Really gives a brilliant insight into EV trucking in Germany. 👍

[@mozismobile]

Shutting down at 35℃ means they're not going to work in Australia. Which is annoying because I'd love to see more electric trucks round the city here, despite our regular 40℃+ days.

[@AdamTreier]

I sounds like a serious design flaw... like they do not have fans (or enough fans) over the cooling equipment since it only happens while standing still or at low speed. Hopefully they fix it in new versions or can even be added retroactively.

[@richardbrice6535]

Enjoying your videos here in Trujillo Perú.

[@phillyphil1513]

18:36 - LOL okay now that's funny... 😅

[@SalvaGer-bs4zw]

8:50 maybe it would be a good idea to do a video about how these trucks are designed to work in mountaneous areas. The old/diesel trucks have had lots of cases where they couldn't control the traction and skidded, because of the snow and the angle of the road. But now, with this new tech, maybe some companies will fit a small electric engine (optional?) to every wheel, to offer much better control, when needed. Some companies work in short/medium range, all this being in places with mountains. Doing 200-300km/day in an area like this, everyday, is totally different from using a highway. Lovely videos!

[@Supernaut2000]

"Such steep inclines are not something you encounter..." You'd be way out of your element here in the Canadian Rockies with massive long ups and downs approaching 10% and sometimes more.

[@AdamTreier]

I don't think any highway in the US has more than 7%? I think that is the maximum defined by law on a highway

[@RWBHere]

Thanks Tobias. Your videos are interesting, informative and entertaining, whilst giving viewers the truck driver's perspective of driving an EV. I laughed when you mentioned the Renault Zoe. I'm not a truck driver. We bought our car when the ZE50 arrived, with a claimed range of around 245 miles/ 390 kilometres, purely to avoid having to hypermile. With 52 kWh of available battery, I can drive at truck speed or faster with no worries, and exceed the claimed range. On quiet roads or busy motorways, the car can stretch to over 500 km/ 300 mi in Summer, without inconveniencing anyone, and still not hypermiling. (My wife uses more battery, somehow, and takes just as long as me to arrive. Go figure!) That's further than We've ever needed to drive on one day in Britain, so the slow DC recharging (around 44kW in reality), by modern standards, isn't even a consideration. I would never buy a 40 kWh or 22 kWh Zoe, and I would never buy any Nissan Leaf, simply because they don't have enough range for us. Your previous experiences must have been 'interesting' at times. 😉

[@steverichmond7142]

I worked for Leyland when they were taken over by DAF. Within Leyland was Butec which made electrical equipment - e.g. starter motors for tanks.

[@dougowt]

I always enjoy your videos and it's great learning about your experiences. I enjoy traveling from the UK around Europe but you are making my EV adventures look like a trip to the shops.I used to drive Zoes, but now I have a 2016 Tesla Model S. Currently having covered 273,000 miles ( 439,000 km). I look forward to when the infrastructure is more HGV and large van friendly. You make it look easy but the infrastructure needs to be much better suited to large vehicles. You shouldn't be having to unhitch your trailer all the time.

[@pete3897]

5:20 - he he he :) That window helps avoid missing cyclists?? :)

[@electrictrucker]

Whoops. 😅

[@pete3897]

@@electrictrucker Thanks for taking my jovial dig for what it was - a lighthearted joke at the way things can sometimes be lost in translation. Truth is I think you do a most wonderful job translating his german and editing the videos. Bravo :)

[@Leonardo-i4b]

hey you said you have a truck filled with plants i work ina aalsemer flowers qnd plants distributrion in netherland would be awesome to see you. i enjoy your videos. im an early adopter electric driver

[@louwrentius]

The irony is that the cruise ship is an extreme source of pollution. In 🇳🇱 activist sometimes try to stop them entering the Amsterdam harbor. You may feel about this as you may, but electric trucking is a part of a larger goal to move away from fossil fuels and cruise ships negate some of the gains. 🌷🤷‍♀️

[@Jeddin]

Theres no technology yet to make the cruise ships carbon neutral or less polluting. They are investigating large solar sails that harvest both wind and solar power for container ships which is interesting technology. But in the meantime you cant tell people that they cant go on cruises. Not only will your opposition not be successful but it is a sure way to alienate the public from buying into the energy transition.

[@Nicholas-f5]

Agreed!

[@a.yashwanth]

Ships require an enormous amount of energy. how do you store the energy on the ship? For now I think attaching parachute to the ship and having huge rollers on the ships which are proven to improve efficiency upto 10% makes more sense until we figure out some breakthrough in energy density.

[@louwrentius]

@a.yashwanth how about we say “no” to cruise ships like this and maybe power ships with an ancient technology called a “sail”. I want huge sail ships back.

[@a.yashwanth]

@@louwrentius You don't realise the weight of these ships and the weight they carry. I bet a sail won't even move an empty ship. Why would you think ships use hundreds of tons of fuel which is a large part of their running cost when they can just use a sail.

[@electricvehiclesug256]

blessed to have found this channel. thanks brother for this wonderful information and clearing all misconceptions about evs and electric trucks in general

[@markottaway6899]

I have a Renault Zoe with 43KWh battery and all my journeys are within my range, but on the very rare occasion I'm slightly outside my energy comfort zone I will line up a safe distance behind a convoy of trucks, I get a distant tow from the trucks extending my range.

[@MarkGaudie]

I need to pay a visit to my local DAF site in Leyland, Lancashire UK. Great trucks for driver comfort DAF. 👍

[@deeeeeeeench1209]

Reliability, customer service sub standard from my last 15 years experience with DAF not my choice get what you're given also rude staff in 3 different branches.

[@wurdig9224]

Awesome 🥹

[@paulc6766]

Tesla are now nearing completion of the truck factory in Nevada so mass production can begin (mass in truck terms that is). In Australia the maximum width of trucks has been allowed to be increased by 5cm to allow Volvo EV trucks to be road legal. Volvo are one of Australians big truck manufacturers.

[@mipmipmipmipmip-v5x]

Tesla truck production start has been promised for 2019 😂 No one wants a truck without service network, but Elon will now get government money to push them out anyway. Welcome to the United States of CCP.

[@oujin1865]

I really enjoy watching your video. PLease make sure you also share the type of chargers you have on the stations you visit for charging.

[@Nicholas-f5]

Are you on Bluesky too?

[@Aeeshamselv]

I have been subscribed for almost 2 month now, and i love your channel. I drive an electric car too (since 2019) and i really geek electric cars, and now also trucks! . I really really love your graphics from charge spent driving and charging. Keep up the good work. I'll be patiently waiting for more content. Much love from Denmark! :D

[@Muppetkeeper]

As Tesla Bjorn always says, ABC - Always be charging

[@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665]

The prices will come down as the batteries are set to drop in price by 50% by next year acording to CATL and the range is increasing as they change to superior Cathodes ... They dont need so much Lithium and no Ni or Cobolt.

[@iamaduckquack]

Price won't come down as much as it could because of corporate greed.

[@Psi-Storm]

They are all switching to LFP cells, so there is no Ni or Cobalt use anyway.

[@DanielThirion]

Love your vids man thanks for translating them. At first it was a bit confusing not matching the mouth. It gets better overtime, but could I recommend doing it like they do in Natgeo dubs, keeping the original voice but making it very quiet over the dub? Im a Renault Zoe (40kWh) driver, but I have the 43kW AC charging option. There's surprisingly still some chargers here in France, but it's slowly fading away and most rest stops on the highway do not have 43kW AC anymore. But I love this car, it'' s really amazing, currently having 130000km on the odometer.

[@romantruba8790]

4:00 LFP is not less prone to degradation vs NMC. Actually, recent study found that constantly charging LFP to 100% can lead to even faster degradation than NMC. Modern NMC pouch and prismatic cells can have an incredible number of cycles to use, and carry on safe compounds (non-flammable electrolyte) which makes LFP only marginally better in terms of price. Add increased LFP cells weight in the equation and they don't look this much appealing anymore.

[@Psi-Storm]

What are you talking about? Long haul has to charge twice a day. NMC will drop below 80% capacity within a few years. Try to give a 10 year, 1.2 million km guarantee with nmc packs, like Mercedes does with LFP, and you have to replace the full packs at least two times, meaning you would make a loss of at least 100k per truck sold.

[@RWBHere]

20:00 Ionity only cost you about €30c per kWh? My nearest one in England costs 79p (over €90c), and some Ionity stations are significantly more expensive than that. We're being robbed in Britain.

[@Muppetkeeper]

€49 for a micro hotel, wow, thats a lot.

[@TassieEV]

Why didn't DAF not put MCS port and a CCS port on their new truck so it's ready for proper truck charging stations rather than have them hogging passenger vehicle chargers. I know there is a MCS Megawatt station in Spain I believe one of the first there could be more now.

[@Psi-Storm]

Don't you think 460 kwh usable is a bit too small for long haul? Assuming 4,5h driving time at 80 km/h, you drive 360km. With 110kwh/100km fully loaded, you need 400kwh recharged in your 45 minute break. That's 10-95% charging. I doubt the battery let's you do that.

[@Rob-yj9ew]

Is this also available in original german language? Btw, it is DAF, not D.A.F. The old meaning of van Doorne Automobiel Fabriek is longe gone.

[@CalgarGTX]

Hate to say it but EV semis have to be artificially limited in acceleration, simply because all road users have been conditioned for decades in knowing that semis can't really accelerate out of a paper bag so they take this fact into account when trying to overtake etc... if you give semi drivers a 2sec 0-100... weird things are gonna happen, not to mention the damage if they get into accidents with their mass vs a car. The power should still be there for high angle elevation roads and to keep it consistent no matter the load pulled however.

[@speedstyle.]

I found this dub quite 'cramped' and went to watch the original with auto-translated subs. I don't know if you could splice in more background audio, either from when there's no speech or using AI isolation stuff?

[@romantruba8790]

25:00 Does it always sound like that? It's quite noisy, I thought EV trucks are supposed to be more quieter.

[@LesNewell]

That's the battery cooling because it was on charge. Once the batteries have cooled down the fans will get much quieter.

[@rolandmike5027]

Do you have vacant jobs? I would love to be an electric truck driver😂😂 i already have cat C and E and an electric car...

[@alanrickett2537]

Would be interesting to find out what you think of the Tesla semi for use in Europe but it will be a long time before you get to try one.

[@AL5520]

It will take a long time before anyone can get to try one as still fery few of them were made and all are being "tested" by a few large companies. Regardless of the truck itself and whether it's any good (and since very few actually drove it and they're not providing too much informationl) it seems that Tesla does not have the ability to mass pruduce those trucks or provide worlwide (or even countrywide in the US) service. Even with the regular tesla cars they have service problens when even small repares costs a lot and can take months due to lack of parts, something that is alwase inconvenient but still manageable fow a private car owner but not something a trucker can accept.

[@alanrickett2537]

@AL5520 which is why Tesla's approach is different for trucks, they are building up the logistics first , getting the truck to be a finished product and training staff at big company's to be a able to fix the trucks , now that's not to say it will work but at least they are trying to address it.

[@kens97sto171]

Probably would need to be a day cab version. I think it would be too long for the European market. Range is not issue with them.. over 500 miles I think.

[@AL5520]

@@alanrickett2537 Tesla does not have a plan. Their boss keeps promising things he knows are false and people that paid a deposit for the truck have been waiting for years - this is not the act of a company that "building up the logistics first". The other tuck companies already have the logistics in place as they've been manufacturing and selling trucks (and some other types of vehicles) for decades. If that's what their doing they should declare that it will take X years to deliver any kind of truck to people that payed for it and refund all the deposit, while keeping maintaining their reservation so once they can actually sell them they will be able (if they still want to) buy it first. The truck was presented at 2017 ans musk said that it will be available in 2019 and now they're promising it will be available to all in 2026. Meanwhile there are more 100,000 electric trucks (al commercial use truck, not just semi) and with huge growth in sales. Electric buses are doing even better. Regardless of Tesla, the US trucking sector mostly not the kind to adopt electric anything, and definitely not trucks and ven though Musk is kind of an advisor to Trump the base hates electric cars and which means it will be harder and more expensive to buy electric cars or trucks.

[@IXISSV]

They're too wide for European roads, thats why you wont see one for a long time.

[@mithrandir491]

500 km range is good enough to drive an ice-cream truck within the city.😂

[@sonyphotoguy6601]

With the restrictions on work ours it makes perfect sense to use these trucks for long journeys. It would be absolutely a waste of weight and therefore energy to pack in bigger batteries even then it is possible one day.

[@mithrandir491]

@@sonyphotoguy6601 There is no practical advantage over diesel trucks but only downsides - there will be servicing issues, maintenance, slow charging, sudden changes in the route which can stretch your range, battery degradation. Its not something a real truck driver would like to deal with..

[@sonyphotoguy6601]

@@mithrandir491 The Trucks have more power (there is a video where he runs up a hill - fully loaded- and the other trucks look like they are parking). It is much cheaper than Diesel. There is much less maintenance. The TCO is much much lower. Batteries have a guaranty of 1,6 Million km and more. Because f the low TCO all trucks will be electric pretty fast. Every company that works with Diesel can not calculate the same low prices. They will die.

[@mithrandir491]

@@sonyphotoguy6601 Lithium batteries will degrade by 10-20km every 90 days if you are a regular trucker. Good luck with your range, your tree hugging or whatever.

[@sonyphotoguy6601]

@@mithrandir491 Educate yourself. That is completely nonsense.

[@Muppetkeeper]

Rumours are that Tesla V4 are getting new cabinets, 500kW.

[@DanielThirion]

Charging at 22kW sounds like a massive pain LOL I don't understand why it would be interesting at all

[@electrictrucker]

If your company only runs scheduled short distance deliveries and has to charge overnight at the depot anyway, a 22 kW wallbox is enough to charge half of the truck overnight, while saving you a lot of money in installation costs compared to a 150 kW setup.

[@mrmichrom8553]

@@electrictruckerexactly, you install high power DC chargers at the hub, and AC chargers at the spokes. Huge savings in installation costs and maintenance too.

[@benandolga]

European is much better

[@mikeprzyrembel]

Most companies I work for run their trucks 24/7, the truck is insured, taxed and depreciates 24/7 so you are are losing money if the wheels are not turning. A battery powered truck would be of no use as we would need nearly twice the number of trucks for the same job.

[@paulc6766]

I doubt what you say as there are laws in every country about drivers rest periods and the maintenance periods of diesel trucks is a heavy burden of time and money.

[@verygoodbrother]

So what are the trucks doing when the driver is sleeping or resting?

[@mikeprzyrembel]

@@verygoodbrother Out on the road with another driver, none of the companies I work for do nights out.

[@mikeprzyrembel]

@@paulc6766 All rest/break/wtd periods are adhered to, typical daily shift is 11-12 hours. Trucks are inspected every 6 weeks as required.

[@duster8100]

He is not advocating you should be using BVT's.

[@TheSolitere]

EV trucks are great to drive. But failing big in price and range.

[@fgerstm2069]

While price is an issue, the range is not in so many usecases. Often trucks don't need to drive 300 miles or more in one setting. Especially in Europe, in the new trucks the battery isn't the limiting factor anymore. It's the regulations for driving and rest times.

[@sallerc]

Also you have to look at total cost of ownership, much cheaper per km so.

[@TheSolitere]

@@fgerstm2069 Haven´t seen a heavy EV truck yet that can drive with trailer 480 km. Up North there´s a lot logistic hubs that are way out of reach för EV Trucks.

[@TheSolitere]

@@sallerc Yes, the maintenance cost is lower for EV trucks, and so is the fuel cost. However, the price is more than double. A diesel truck can be used quite easily for 15-20 years. Then there is the aftermarket value to consider. How many people are willing to buy a 10-year-old EV truck? That's something we don't know at this moment. If we look at how EV cars are performing in the aftermarket sales, it doesn't look promising. But of course, things can change.

[@guringai]

​@@TheSoliterethe Tesla semi does 800km.