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The first of Schneider's first battery-electric trucks, fresh off the line at Daimler Truck North America's (DTNA) factory in Portland, Oregon. (Photo: Business Wire)
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Schneider takes delivery of 92 Freightliner eCascadia trucks
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The first of Schneider's first battery-electric trucks, fresh off the line at Daimler Truck North America's (DTNA) factory in Portland, Oregon. (Photo: Business Wire)
Here is a link to the specs for the trucks, I don't know what versions were delivered: eCascadia® Specs | Freightliner Trucks
I think it is interesting that they offer dual charging ports to allow up to 270kW charging.
(Otherwise you only get 180kW charging.)Interesting that the specs don't include weight...
edit: Found it:
So, including the weight of the trailer, 60,200lbs of payload.
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Wonder if Schneider will retire 92 of it's Diesel trucks or just add these to their existing Fleet? They have around 40 terminals in the U S
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AMPd
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I’ve seen those trucks before, in Los Angeles. I’m not sure Tesla’s semi had much to do with this.
Tesla Semi's were seen before the Dec. 1 event as well.
It's the Tesla Semi Event on Dec. 1st that I'm referring to, not the Tesla Semi just by itself.
AMPd
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No I mean I’ve seen them actually doing work for some trucking company, they were hauling a container.
AMPd
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No idea, I just remember it catching my eye because it had “zero emissions, all electric” vinyl wrap on it.
Freightliner eCascadia EV Semi Joins Sysco’s Fleet
Freightliner eCascadia continues its commercial rollout in the US. Here’s one of the latest companies to receive these electric semi trucks.
www.autoweek.com
"By 2026, Sysco plans to deploy up to 800 eCascadias for its operations, including those that will be paired with electric refrigerated trailers."
Sysco Receives First Battery-Electric Freightliner eCascadia Class 8 Truck
The first series-produced battery electric Freightliner eCascadia was delivered to Sysco Corporation, the top global distributor of food
cleantechnica.com
"Sysco and DTNA, the top heavy-duty truck producer in North America, confirmed plans to utilize up to 800 battery-powered Freightliner eCascadias by 2026 earlier this year. In order to meet Sysco’s science-based climate goal, electric refrigerated trailers and Freightliner eCascadias will be used extensively."
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The eCascadia and the eM2 have been in customers hands for about 4 years now as test fleets doing actual work.
Operator64
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Glad to see
Which is the same as the Schneider press release:
schneider.com
Here's an article about it without the paywall:
Which is the same as the Schneider press release:
Schneider to add nearly 100 battery electric trucks to its fleet
Schneider to add nearly 100 battery electric trucks to its fleet
schneider.com
A trailer typically weighs 10,000 lbs, so you can calculate 50,000 of cargo for the eCascadia. I calculated that the Tesla Semi was carrying 49,000 lbs on its road test, so that would make the weight of the Semi's tractor to be roughly 23,000 lbs, whereas a comparable diesel semi tractor weighs 17,000 or 18,000 lbs.
Operator64
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Why spend my time spoon feeding you facts?
Up until recently there were only something like 5 Tesla Semis in existence and they were not in customer hands doing real work, they were used as PR pieces by Tesla to shuttle cars from Fremont to local delivery centers on rare occasion.
The eCascadia and eM2 have been in the hands of large logistics firms for years now and they have been feeding back issues to Daimler.
Operator64
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Because you have none.
Oh so they have been in operation testing and improving.
For years? Please show proof….if this is true then with all these logged miles in “customer” hands why couldn’t they build a better machine?
One million miles logged in the customer test fleet in December '21. If you take the blinders off there is a lot of detail out there on how a real semi OEM operates.
What we’ve learned as Freightliner’s battery electric customer fleets pass the million-mile marker
With 1 million miles in the rearview mirror, we ask about “recuperation ratio” and the other electric truck lessons from Freightliner.
www.fleetequipmentmag.com
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