Nearly 150 electric trucks will deliver groceries to Australian homes in the country’s largest electric truck rollout to date.
Zenobē has leased 148 Foton T5 battery-electric trucks (BETs) to Woolworths, with first deliveries commencing in May and the full fleet rollout expected this year.
Seems a sensible use for electric - last mile short range stuff with lots of stop/start, predictable max mileage, and return to base each night. Much better use case than linehaul or other long range stuff - I can’t see that being sensible without a lot of infrastructure investment. As long as they have chargers sorted at the bases it should work (barring people forgetting to plug the thing in which will happen but hopefully not too often).
The range on these is still a bit low for a full days work even in short range urban delivery (claims up to 200km, so maybe 150 you can rely on) so I wonder if they’re planning on spruiking for fast chargers at the bases - could fit in a morning and afternoon/evening run that way.
hey you want to flick the url around, it looks like you’ve linked to a picture
The link is in the text.
😮💨 why do i bother
I’m not vey tech-savvy and I don’t understand what you mean by ‘flicking the url around’. Why not just use the link in the text? Are you being precious?
On link aggregator sites like this you would normally put the article URL as the main link so people can click on your title and be taken to the article. Having a picture as the main link like you’ve done would normally be done if the picture was what you wanted to discuss. It’s not a real problem how it is currently but it is different to how someone would normally post article links.
Luckily you can edit posts on Lemmy, so what they’re suggesting is to go to edit the post and put the article URL in the field labelled URL so your post follows expected behaviour, and if you really wanted a link to the picture you could put that in the description like you currently have the article link.
Hi Tau, that much I knew but some articles’ URLs don’t follow the rules 😆, like this one, which when I put its URL in the URL box it just said ‘Error’. Others say ‘Just waiting’ or ‘One moment’ and nothing happens. Zero_gravitas explained it all to me some time ago but I went back to doing the posting this way because I can make it work. So lol, I’ll keep posting ‘my way’ 🎵 Thank you anyway for reaching out 😊
Oh that’s the headline generator! when you paste the URL in a little bot behind the scenes downloads the webpage and attempts to extract the headline, if it has trouble then it’ll say ‘Error’/‘Just waiting’/‘One moment’ etc
These errors are usually caused by captchas or anti-bot screening which the bot can’t get past, so the bot can’t make a headline
Easy thing to do, just copy and paste the headline yourself from the article
Yup, that’s what I do.
I am done with your trolling arblip3!🤣
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Sad fact that these trucks are running on coal in the end.
where did you see they are running on coal? these are not steam trucks 😅
I meant that most of electricity at night is generated by coal power plants. So ultimately they run on coal. It was a bit of a joke.
Ah, I was going to say tbh even if they do run on coal, it’s still better for the environment than running on oil
It needs to be carefully calculated what is better. There is less carbon per joule in oil. But power stations are more efficient than ICUs. But there are transmission and storage losses for electricity. But some electricity comes from wind. But transporting fuel also isn’t emission-free. The list goes on. If we only have nuclear, it would solve this dilemma.
I thought it was fairly settled science because petrol cars only use 30% of the energy generated by oil where as EV’s are using 90%
Despite the major energy losses, a power plant is still more efficient than a car’s engine. Recall that an internal combustion engine loses around 80% of the energy that goes into it. A coal-burning power plant loses around 68% of its energy. Thus, an EV powered purely by coal still uses less energy than a car powered by gasoline.
https://thedriven.io/2024/01/31/electric-vehicles-use-half-the-energy-of-fossil-fuel-vehicles/
but as you said
But some electricity comes from wind
Yeah, even at our worst times overnight we’re not a purely coal powered nation anymore
And we get cleaner every year:
