I'm trying to determine the battery size for an 18 wheel (40 ton) truck with a 200+ mile range. There is a 20 ton bus (see: http://www.byd.com/na/auto/40feet.html ) with a range of >155 miles and a battery size of 324 kWh. So, for 210 miles that would be about 463 kWh.
According to a graph (figure 7) in: http://www.goodyeartrucktires.com/pdf/resources/service-manual/Retread_S9_V.pdf the MPG declines from 5 to about 4.2 when the weight goes from 20 tons to 40 tons, so I would estimate that the truck would need about a 550 kWh battery. Does that sound reasonable, or am I missing something? Thanks, -- Larry Gales -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20151103/1a330645/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
