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ELECTRIC TRUCK STUDY * USA
* Massachusetts - Institute of Technology Study Finds Electric Trucks Can Save Businesses Money
(Photo: Associated Press / Frito-Lay has begun using electric trucks in New York and elsewhere)
Cambridge,MASS,USA -MIT News Office, by Peter Dizikes -10 Feb 2012: -- Using electric trucks can considerably reduce costs for fleets, say researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology... The study, conducted at MIT's Center for Transportation and Logistics, found that electric vehicles can cost 9% to 12% less to operate than diesel-powered trucks when used to make deliveries on a daily basis in large cities... Researchers found that in a situations where diesel was $4 a gallon, trucks with internal-combustion engines averaged 10.14 mpg, hybrid trucks averaged 11.56 mpg, and electric-only trucks averaged 0.8 kilowatt-hours per mile... Researchers also looked at the possibility of the trucks being part of a vehicle-to-grid system, where batteries could be plugged into the electric grid for 12 hours each night as an additional electricity source for consumers. In a setup such as this, truck owners would receive compensation from utility firms for providing the power service. The study found that from this setup, business owners stand to make $900 to $1,400 per truck per year in V2G revenues, reported MIT News... Because of this, when V2G-enabled electric trucks take the place of internal-combustion trucks, operational cost decreases from 75 cents per mile to 68 cents per mile... While this concept would provide many opportunities for urban commercial fleets, the study concluded it wouldn't apply to rural or interstate deliveries...
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