* California - Independent laboratory performed all tests with a high degree of reliability
-- Transportation Power Inc., which provides clean vehicle and stationary energy storage technologies and products, has announced results of independent laboratory testing that touts its electric vehicle technologies... Frank Falcone, TransPower’s director of powertrain engineering, said the testing at the University of California in Riverside, “confirms the significant reliability, environmental benefits and economic advantages offered by heavy-duty trucks and tractors using TransPower’s electric vehicle (EV) technologies. For a truck with a half a million mile operating life, the energy cost savings predicted by the CE-CERT (UC Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering-Center for Environmental Research and Technology)
testing would amount to $630,000 over the life of the truck” ... Falcone add, “We estimate that with maintenance savings, total life-cycle savings could exceed $700,000 and that could increase to $1 million or more with higher fuel prices” ... Accounting for the greenhouse gases produced by power plants to generate the electricity used by the TransPower-powered truck, the vehicle “is expected to reduce GHG in typical drayage drive cycles by 67-68 percent” ... TransPower’s on-road truck has an equivalent energy cost of 23 cents per mile, as compared with $1.49 per mile for a typical diesel truck — an 85 percent reduction... TransPower’s electric tractor has an energy cost of 31 cents per mile, compared with $1.12 per mile for an equivalent diesel yard tractor and 99 cents per mile for the latest hybrid yard tractor tested by CE-CERT...
Poway, CAL, USA - Trucking News - May 13, 2015Labels: electric truckmakers news
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