That’s not how FedEx tells the story. Apparently they experiment with all sorts of new technologies.
https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1094920_fedex-tests-wrightspeed-electric-trucks-with-diesel-turbine-range-extender Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 7, 2018, at 10:02 PM, Mark Abramowitz via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > I didn't read the article, and don't want to defend an anti-EV hack, but on > the question of volume, I can assure you that it can be an issue in the real > world. As I always say, it's a question of the application and duty cycle. > > One example I can think of is the experience of FedEx delivery truck. They > have a number of battery electric delivery vehicles, found that range just > couldn't cut it in at least some places. The obvious solution is add more > batteries, right? No, more batteries would have taken up valuable cargo > space. They could/wouldn't do it. So now they are demoing fuel cells as range > extenders to the battery electrics. It's going very well, from what I hear. I > believe that UPS is doing the same. > > --- > - Mark > >> On 2018-04-08 03:37, Lee Hart via EV wrote: >> EVDL Administrator via EV wrote: >>> It's puzzling that the author of this article, Isidor Buchman, allegedly >>> sets out to write about the differences between mobile phone batteries and >>> EV batteries, but spends over 40% of his piece dismissing and denigrating >>> EVs. >>> Worse, he rehashes the same old misinformation and ignorance that's been >>> aimed at EVs for 5 decades. >>> Look at this junk. This is the language of a PR hack, not a scientist. >>> Some of it's outright wrong; other parts are just meaningless prattle. >> That's how it looked to me as well. Besides the gaffes you pointed >> out, his use of charts for H2 are out of place. Also, I've never seen >> anyone compare batteries by volume as a figure of merit. Volume is >> almost never a problem; it's always weight that counts (KW per KG, and >> KWH/KG). > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20180409/1b0168d7/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
