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There's a fabulous YouTube channel on electric trucks in Germany if the topic interests you.

German version: https://youtube.com/@elektrotrucker

English: https://youtube.com/@electrictrucker this has fewer and shorter videos unfortunately.

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cachius|3 months ago

There's a fabulous drive technology for electric trucks in Germany if powering it with hydrogen via fuel cell interests you. Got awarded the German Future Prize 2025 recently. https://www.bosch-presse.de/pressportal/de/en/bosch-team-win...

It's for long distance/quick refill operations. I wonder how the BEV trucks handle this. Can they swap batteries or are limited to shorter distances?

Here's the award ceremony in German https://minily.org/gfp25-award-bosch-long-distance-truck-fce...

aguy123|3 months ago

H2 Trucks are dead, just from the economics. Watch the latest video from Elektrotrucker on youtube where he does the math. His BEV long haul actros comes out to a price per km of 0.35 EUR whereas the h2 Truck ends up at 1.35 EUR. There is a reason why Charging networks for BEV trucks are expanding while h2 stations are being taken down.

bewo001|3 months ago

It's much simpler. In the EU, truckers have to do mandatory 45 min breaks after 4 1/2 hours of driving. With the latest truck generation, this is enough time to recharge to get through the rest of the shift. 400 kW charging is sufficient in this scenario. No wasteful expensive H2 or fancy battery swapping technology required.

ammo1662|3 months ago

Those BEV trucks come in both swappable battery and fast-charging models. Most support dual chargers for simultaneous charging. A 600kWh battery can be fully charged in about an hour with two 350kW chargers. Two more common 180kW charger takes around two hours. Some trucks even support four chargers at once. But for the small and cheap trucks used in city, they may take 4 hours for charging to run 200km.

I've also know some trucks used in mines that don't even need charging. The electricity generated when descending with a full load is enough to power the empty truck back uphill.

trueismywork|3 months ago

The real award ceremony is reduction of green houses gases. I think BEV do this better than hydrogen for a long time now.

Hydrogen doesnt deem scalable.