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Oct 5, 2014

ELECTRIC TRUCKMAKERS * USA: Tesla's - Wrightspeed's

* California - The market for trucks is booming. Is that what Elon Musk is aiming for with the ‘D’?

San Francisco,CAL,USA -The Washington Post, by Brian Fung -October 2, 2014: ... Trucks are a huge part of the U.S. auto market. So far this year, manufacturers have moved over 1.6 million new trucks off the lot — a 4.4 percent increase over this time last year and more than double the number of mid-sized SUVs... Designing an energy efficient truck is hard enough with traditional technology. Everything's heavier compared to a sedan. It needs to be more durable. If you're carrying a load in the back, that raises the power requirements even more. Can Tesla's technology take it? Brauer now seems to think so... "Under certain circumstances, trucks make perfect sense," said Karl Brauer, a senior analyst at Kelley Blue Book... 


* California - Why this Tesla Motors Co-founder loves electric garbage trucks 

(Photo: A FedEX electric truck)
San Jose,CAL,USA -xconomy, by Martin LaMonica -3 Oct 2014: -- Ian Wright is the founder of Wrightspeed, a San Jose, CA-based startup that’s designed electric powertrains for medium- and heavy-duty trucks. “Garbage trucks are the perfect driving cycle for us: they get two or three miles per gallon, drive 130 miles a day with 1,000 hard stops that chew on the brakes. They’re just perfect,” he says... He’s come around to thinking that the biggest opportunity for electric vehicle disruption is where most of the fuel is burned—that is, big trucks. Cars may go through a few hundred gallons of gas a year but a commercial truck will burn through thousands of gallons or more. That means there’s a better financial incentive in terms of fuel savings to go electric... The technology in Wrightspeed’s truck conversion kits is deep. There’s an electric motor on each of the truck’s drive wheels (it can be two or four depending on the vehicle) and an on-board generator to replenish batteries once their charge gets below about 20 percent. The generator can operate on natural gas or diesel... Wrightspeed is targeting fleet owners in metro areas where the regular stop-and-go traffic is an advantage: by braking or slowing down, the powertrain can recharge the battery, just as a hybrid car does... Wright’s belief is that electric powertrain technology is fundamentally better—electric motors are very efficient and generally offer better driving performance. But it needs the right business model to truly become mainstream...

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