Rosenbauer RTX and Fire Department Coffee Ride Along

[@saminasser7807]

Jason's ability to keep the conversation going and control the flow is immaculate, not enough people are aware or appreciate that this skill is hard to master.

[@edwardduffy4170]

i think my highlight of this was seeing the 90’s Ford Open Cab Pumper at 7:22

[@AirWasTaken]

Hey, Jason from FDC!

[@Stormgamesandvlogs]

fire department coffee in my home country

[@mdpo6419]

Cool 😎

[@nightlightsafetyproducts]

I love these videos. How long does it take to charge an electric fire truck?

[@Kabaniko-san]

The electric motors kinda sound like trolleybus when accelerating

[@davidsnyder2423]

Hi , one question that I haven’t heard as of yet is how much do the Batteries cost to replace ?

[@dbyers3897]

They're rechargeable.

[@randomxser]

@@dbyers3897 Not for ever, they will eventually break sometime

[@MrJimheeren]

By the time you need to replace the batteries. You just buy a new truck. Fire trucks don’t make that many miles per year (average lower then 5000 miles per year)

[@randomxser]

@@MrJimheeren that's also true

[@kilodeltaeight]

For some context/comparison, the BMW i3 was in production for about a decade from 2023-2022. Many units are now over 10 years old, with well over 100,000 miles on them. All i3’s had a 10 year battery warranty specifying full replacement if the capacity dropped below 70%. Only a handful have ever seen that happen, with marginally more having individual cells replaced out of a full pack due to premature aging. Lithium Ion batteries are VERY reliable, especially if you properly manage capacity so they aren’t ever discharged below 10% of actual capacity or over 80-90% actual capacity. Most BMS’ do this automatically, so “100%” is really ~85% and so on. I’d be surprised if the RTX isn’t the same, and expect they’d last well over a decade. The reality, too, is that electric motors last FAR longer than diesel engines: electric trains in subway service, for example, easy last 30-50 years with a mid life overhaul and a far harder duty cycle. I could easily see these engines getting similar re-fits to replace batteries and interior fittings for ~50% the cost of a new engine, saving departments a LOT over their life.

[@projectredhead]

does it come in wildlands config? with fire suppression systems? also the battery does it have a fail safe fire system in case... well you know

[@Andy-ST]

schade das Rosenbauer kein martin´s horn mit ein gebaut hat

[@randomxser]

ist halt in den USA nicht so üblich

[@Andy-ST]

@@randomxser aber genau deswegen 😊

[@randomxser]

@@Andy-ST hat aber auch keinen Richtigen Nutzen, die Amerikaner haben schon genug verschiedene Sirenen

[@Andy-ST]

@@randomxser du magst recht haben , nur ich habe da so ein anderer Gedanke, Heimat liebe denn die sind ja Österreicher

[@randomxser]

@@Andy-ST Ist aber für den Amerikanischen Markt, oder?

[@Gggggggvvvvvvvcg]

These trucks are cool don’t get me rong I’d rather have a diesel one but I thank the battery’s will degrade and that is going to cost a fortune

[@solarissv777]

It would be really nice to see the comparison of yearly use in a busy city between this and a comparable diesel engine and see how much fuel and money does it save. Add a battery change in 10 years and check what is actually cheaper in the long run.

[@namgreb9063]

These trucks come equipped with NMC batteries after 3,000 charge cycles (battery being discharged to zero and back to 100) the pack can maintain 93% of its original capacity. The degradation loss will get better as new battery chemistries make it into BEV's. For example Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries are cheaper and have a long lifespan than Nickel Maganese Cobalt batteries. As new chemistries ( such as Sodium Ion batteries) are improved the cost for a new battery fire apparatus will be cheaper than a diesel apparatus and this will happen very quickly when that tipping point is reached. These trucks will have longer maintenance intervals and less fleet maintenance cost than their diesel equivalent counterparts.

[@GVWOLF11]

@@solarissv777 batteries for EVs last much longer than 10 years now

[@4merLawman]

Electric fire apparatus Will never make it.

[@firemedic6509]

Why did we ever replace horses?

[@Hirazrador]

steam engines will never replace hand pumps

[@paulmatakovich9096]

I want to see the first electric engine on a brush fire strike team

[@Thatweirduncle]

@@paulmatakovich9096 good thing they are structure engines not designed for that... Im down for electric fire apparatus, just not whatever this is.

[@rollinwithronaldo1330]

Not fully electric, it has a diesel engine backup

[@spyder801jd]

Stop with the European garbage fire trucks

[@dotMSOffice]

The only Reason you call em Garbage is because it's not "Made in USA" kinda a shit Opinion to have. But then again you have no Idea what you are talking about nor do you have any meaningful impact anywhere.

[@randomxser]

euro trucks are not garbage

[@spyder801jd]

@@randomxser we don't need them in the USA

[@solarissv777]

Guess, americans are afraid of competition

[@spyder801jd]

@solarissv777 no that's not the case at all. This is US we don't need European fire trucks in American fire departments