Electric trucks - how the technology works

Is it possible to run a full-sized truck solely on electricity in full speed? This month, an electrically powered truck will begin rolling along a two-kilometre test strip in Sweden. This is how the technology works.

[@TheRomanpolan]

WOW amazing , it took only 120 years to copy the idea from an electric trolleybus that were used since 1880

[@dan16000]

#BigOil #UAE #Petrodollars

[@user-ck1bk4ev2k]

Bum Bummer

[@tr3073]

Didn’t see u coming up with the fuckin ideas.

[@1815dmitriy]

actually, it's not: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/uk/1/1a/Gruz005.jpg upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/uk/7/7c/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%81_%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%90%D0%97.jpg upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/uk/d/d1/Gruz004.jpg transphoto.ru/photo/559911/

[@petter5721]

Trolleybuses do not have Diesel engines!

[@MrSyltburken]

This is just the right way to make hybrid trucks, the range is increased and no limitations on smaller roads thanks to the diesel engine still being the primary power. Great idea and I hope to see more of these ideas! Long live the king of the road!

[@willdatsun]

anything to reduce pollution is a good idea. Reducing the need for trucks in the first place would also be a good thing, more local products and less consumption.

[@thelogicalracer1036]

a lot of lost jobs

[@angelmitrev5190]

Real madrit

[@mariusciprianchelaru2313]

Amazing Truck. Very good Scania.

[@djdoy6341]

Great job

[@Owner28101]

looool, i was always scania fan , gj guys :)

[@smokesmoke9795]

Wow, it is amazing

[@user-nf9xc7ww7m]

Does catenary contact with pantograph cause ozone, like with computers?

[@irasthewarrior]

Can the trucks be fitted with autopilot to keep them in the best position below the centenary, and thus reducing the complexity of the power collector and to reduce the fatigue of the driver ?

[@qualifierone8899]

Super!

[@jamesshanks2614]

You go to most European cities and trackless trolleys is the normal power. Here in America there are a few city's that still use trackless trolley, Boston up till the early 60's trackless trolleys were everywhere streetcars used to run, the only place there left is Cambridge, Massachusetts. If you suggest you bring back trackless trolleys most everybody says, oh you can't pass another trolley bus. I remember riding them and each route had a spot or two with double wires for a trolley coach to pass and if a coach broke down the driver simply pulled the poles down and hooked them on the coach so other trolley coaches could easily pass. GM, the oil companies and tire companies paid off the right people to get rid of the trolley coach system to make money and we the people went from clean efficient trolley systems to smelly diesel coaches. 99 % of all trackless systems that were converted to diesel buses were built by GM with Detroit Diesels. The best example of the trolley coach is in San Francisco. A friend lives on the steepest bus route in Frisco. The used large high horsepower diesel coaches up to double Diesel engines because when the coach hit the steepest part the driver kept it floored until the coach came to a stop. The driver then applied the brakes opened both doors and said " ok folks meet you at the top of the hill and everybody got out and walked up the hill with the bus roaring away up the hill empty at 2 or 3 miles per hour until reaching the top where everybody got back on and continued the commute. This went on for several years until one morning where the bus would normally stop the driver failed to stop and opened only the front door and told the commuters to get on the bus. Everyone was yelling open the rear door but the driver ignored them until the last passenger got on then stepped on the accelerator and everybody was shocked when the bus quietly accelerated up the hill easily with a full load. At the next stop everybody was asking how? Easy said the driver the transit commission finally did what we've been telling the for years. Installed a trackless trolley system on this route. This trackless uses a single 200 horsepower electric motor that we added a traction motor blower to blow cool air into the traction motor to prevent it from overheating due to the steep route and as you can see it works beautifully. This happened in 1975 and the only modification is adding regenerative breaking which generates power from the traction motor and it feeds that power back into the overhead wires. It also reduces the cost of operating the coaches. Dayton, Ohio has been using trackless trolleys now since the early 1920's and continues to use them as they are reliable, very economical to operate the system and contrary to most people that say there too expensive to install is there actually cheaper to install and run then CNG, diesel, and far cheaper than hybrid systems or battery systems. Boston MBTA system changed over to CNG powered buses 30 odd years ago and an average of 40 buses a day fail to complete their runs because they run out of CNG. They then are towed to a garage where they are refueled , restarted and put back into service. Not a good system when the CNG buses continually run out of fuel. Meanwhile the trolley buses have plenty of electricity to run on.

[@trainspotting_and_tech2023]

It is, but people don't want to understand! They think that the batteries are the future and they are "eco-fiendly"!☹️🤦‍♂️

[@موسى_7]

@@trainspotting_and_tech2023 but batteries are wasteful.

[@Zer0kbps]

seems a little dangerous but COOL, if the road develops a defect e.g. a pothole, undulation or debris the tractor units will bounce off them which could create an entanglement situation with the pantograph. I assume there will be a significant current going through the cables too! Batteries have got to be the way or at least hybrid

[@LoovesJf.]

It's a great systems. Is this cargo only? Is it not applied to passengers? As a passenger trolley bus, if you run on the highway, it will be a great infrastructure development.

[@giovanninassini1988]

can you give me the levels of current and voltage? thanks

[@LiveTree]

Amazing to see this technology being so easy and would amazing to see this technology being used more widely in the future and hopefully in the UK #livetree #fairweb

[@BhangRonBooks]

How about making the wiring module with solar roof that is covered with solar panel produce an electric power? It could send a power in daylight. Of course a battery or hydrogen fuel cell works in night time.

[@RodrigoFernandez-td9uk]

There isn't other solution. Batteries are just to heavy and expensive for long distance travels.

[@موسى_7]

Are they going to have vans like this?

[@RudeMcNasty]

Where oversize load need to move on the highway/motorway Wouldn't that be a problem?

[@manowartank8784]

There are still bridges and other stuff and when you exit highway, you cross railways and cities with trolleys aswell. Secondly, most of oersized stuff can't enter highway anyway because it' too slow.

[@manjeshsp9972]

How does it work without ground

[@Stig007]

I think the internal combustion engine for the style of truck and for the method you're using it for is not the brightest idea you may be using the truck for a lot of off-grid driving but if you're doing a lot of highway driving that you would have this grid attached to then you could have a big battery pack to charge and Reserve while you're on the highway or if you're mainly doing just Highway and small off-grid driving you could have a smaller battery pack that way you don't have to you have the maintenance and wear-and-tear of an internal combustion engine and you save a lot of money since you're already utilizing electric motors and Electric System you would just switch to a battery pack rather than switching to a full internal combustion mechanical system. I guess since this is just starting up you would want an internal combustion engine but for the future it would probably be something you would like to phase out.

[@firdausrahman6424]

Why not fully electric truck like tesla semi or at least hybrid engine

[@martinmallet3983]

You need to build charging stations, draw new power lines to them. And there’s the downtime of charging them. I think this is good on the short term but as battery technology progresses it’ll go away. But metropolitans that already have the infrastructure for the trams I think it’s ideal.

[@sivasrn1258]

So wonderfull scania keet up god blease scania.

[@shabanasty1245]

It's just a trolleybus. Very old technollogy, popular in many countries. Nothing new.

[@user-nf9xc7ww7m]

Let's do this for cars too. Give catenary wires on all lanes...or bury as third rail just below road (exposed). No CO², no worry about charging stations.

[@trainspotting_and_tech2023]

NO BATTERIES.

[@موسى_7]

It makes more sense for taller vans. Nobody needs cars when there are buses.

[@user-nf9xc7ww7m]

@@موسى_7 If you're going to just allow buses, there would be no point for this--would just use the already existing catenary electric trains, and build extra.

[@symmetry08]

This is what we will call "trolley trucking".

[@JimJones-zc9mk]

It should be wireless and Japan will do this by 2023 with electrified roads instead of trolley cables.

[@trainspotting_and_tech2023]

@@JimJones-zc9mk in fact it will be a trolleybus, but not with wires!

[@lionelkirbyshire7683]

Trucktastic,

[@mattikallio4812]

Detta är framtid!

[@1815dmitriy]

Интересно, а встроить землю в бетон автобана, чтоб не городить дерево на крыше - не вариант?

[@venkatesanvaradharajilu1713]

super

[@trucktalkvideos]

So Scania is going back to the trolly bus age 1911-1972 UK

[@serhatpostmortally9965]

most importantly, what is the effect of electricity on the driver? Who will sell electricity? How about pause?

[@dieabsolutegluckskuche5174]

They will have a battery, otherwise they couldn't get away from the Autobahn :)

[@adrianhoiland20]

this is a good thing! much more enviorment friendly and better looking than diesel trucks IMO However trains has more capacity :)

[@موسى_7]

But trains are less flexible. I imagine small airships shall replace highway trucking, but for garbage trucks within cities, they should be trolleytrucks using the same cables as trolleybuses.

[@erichhonecker1136]

I saw this for the first time today at IAA and I must say I'm very impressed! I hope we will see something like this on our roads soon!

[@olivergunn2796]

Get a truck with a 100-150km battery range with a pantograph on top of or behind the cab, put overhead electric lines above every motorway in Europe and this would cut almost all of Europe's diesel dependence with a fraction of the dependency on lithium ion compared to a purely battery powered solution

[@ekan900]

It's actually outside Sandviken😡 I do know it because I live there around

[@zadeh79]

It's not practical and unnecessary and at this point. Battery will soon enough provide ranges in excess of 500 miles for semis, and fast recharging times.

[@موسى_7]

Batteries degrade in extremely hot weather like that of the Middle East.

[@mercedes-benzcitaro1776]

This car in Scania China is very rare, generally in Guangdong Hongkong Chinese Scania, most rarely in Northwest china!

[@meta4282]

Is nobody going to ask the obvious question: what happens when the driver turns or changes lanes, I would imagine snapped cables for a start.

[@Cloudrak]

The edges are rounded off so they don't pull on the cables. Look at how trains do it

[@Colin_Shapton]

what happens if you need to make an emergency lane change?

[@vanisso]

you dont change lanes

[@peoplearecrazy6874]

watch again the video so you can understand

[@byrysh]

He said if you change lanes the Internal Combustion Engine starts up. Listen to whats being said as well as the pretty pics.

[@symmetry08]

+Michael Liyanage probably, in case of damages during accident in few places it will be out, but keep going a bit and reconnect, back on trolley railing.

[@Stig007]

Michael Liyanage from what it looks like the truck pushes the contact to the underside of the Rails or lines so even if he had to make a unsafe Lane change or was in an accident it won't pull or tug on the lines.

[@Lelo10]

Beuuurk !

[@JonathanRinny]

people don't forget that this technology is already being used by trolley buses all over the world! large heavy and sometimes fully loaded buses so I see a bright future for more eco friendly trucking unless oil companies boycott everything again.

[@GetElectricVehicle]

Electric trucks are the future

[@tonymonteiro6560]

Why even make it hybrid. If you want to reduce even more emissions, then don't burn any fuel at all. Get a battery pack with around 500km of range, which can be used without the power lines to drive off the motorway in the city or something.

[@tr3073]

500km wouldn’t be enough what about heavy haulage would drain the battery much quicker big Diesel engines the only way who has time for stopping to reacharge every-couple of kilometers which takes a couple of hours when you could be refueled and back on the road in a couple of minutes.

[@THETRINITYSONS369]

Li.on batteries loughing at corner 😂

[@telmoguerrero]

GOOOOOLLLL DE Scania-👍💯 !!!!!!😯😍🇺🇾

[@peterfreeman8328]

and how much does this all cost to setup? compared to disel

[@adrianhoiland20]

its much better for the enviorment

[@jonnilongmire]

Can you imagine this infrastructure in UK cities...no.

[@mafiabudzik1908]

Someone can make this mod to ets2 ? hehe

[@mehtapramod23]

ELECTRIC TRUCK IS FUTURE TRUCK

[@tr3073]

Nothing like a v8

[@adrianhoiland20]

even better

[@maxenceguillien2764]

maxence scania

[@destiaayu8327]

8

[@MolotovWithLux]

#accesstoenergy

[@freelyfarmexploits8854]

Let's be honest here trolleybus technology is nothing new. Building a whole electrified road system is costly. Be prepared for your taxes to rise to pay for it and endure many more years of austerity. There is already electrified railway systems around the world, why not develop them and get the road traffic reduced? Alternatively develop the range and pulling power of the battery packs. Four hours for charging is slow and the distance range is very low. Haulage companies need to get produce and goods from A to B quickly and efficiently. The technology is there but it needs tweeking to be commercially viable, affordable and reliable.

[@Citizen-of-theworld]

I wonder how these trials went? They are fugly as sin but at least no need for enormous and expensive batteries. Hopefully if implemented they will just have these on a few main artery routes as they spoil the countryside a bit.

[@yamahayz8528]

NO...!!!

[@reeselanders4185]

Trolley Truck?? No!!!!!

[@Ainappa]

TESLA Semi Truck: Hold my beer

[@jwagner1993]

oww. sorry guys.. that's a ridiculous idea.. no no please..

[@trainspotting_and_tech2023]

A ridiculous idea are batteries.

[@ndhdhdhdjfjfjdjdjd]

Still worse than using normal engine like inline six and v8

[@albertopajuelomontes2066]

why not just use batteries? :S

[@adrianhoiland20]

also Lituim batteries are bad for the enviorment when they are produced

[@mdukasa]

Better than Tesla's terrible semi trucks

[@nickvw5404]

And as Always, the driver has to give in! Why not put the power takeoffs on the trailer? Then the driver keeps his living space....

[@alanjeff505]

Nonsensical idea, that's why we have electric goods trains. Give me a whiff of diesel exhaust smoke, rumble of a diesel truck engine all day any day.

[@quickwimnl]

Consider induction.

[@MajesticSkywhale]

sweden yes! use coal-powered electricity to save the environment!

[@ellioteslander3046]

coal-powered electricity? Are you confusing Sweden with Germany? We dont burn coal.

[@armandofedericosalle4301]

is this an April fool?

[@darisjusic438]

I Think That Is Stupid.

[@bobogliddabrun]

This is just silly, going backwards to outdated tram technology instead of forwards

[@adrianhoiland20]

the technology is old but gold tell something that beats this in Enviorment friendlyness

[@trainspotting_and_tech2023]

Batteries are eco-fiendly?! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@verioffkin]

Why you make trucks then? Make trains. And break style of life many people.... Gotta go to America. These horned truck and wired roads look silly, btw.

[@Blabus5]

Trolleybus for imigrants AY LMAO

[@eltino1821]

where are REALLY trucks and not this bullshit?

[@adrianhoiland20]

there's none

[@liamfearon9773]

load of crap and a waste of time and instead of worrying about emissions you should worry about the fossil NON-RENEWABLE fuels ! instead of just burning electricity

[@AintBigAintClever]

You're ruling out both fossil fuel and electricity (which can be generated from renewables). So what is your suggestion?