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recent bookmarks from jmHeavy-duty electric truck driver ditches diesel2020-02-24T23:02:23+00:00
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/heavy-duty-electric-truck-driver-ditches-diesel
jmWhen it is time to accelerate, the eCascadia’s single gear provides immediate power.
That matters during all-too-frequent slowdowns on California freeways. When traffic begins moving, Williams keeps pace. In a diesel, he would be left behind, working through gears to get up to speed.
“I would have the space of two diesel trucks in front of me. By the time I get going, five cars jump in front of me,” he said. “With this truck, I can stay right with the cars rather than being dropped back every time we stop and go.”
Even with the truck restricted to 60 mph, Williams said he can shave 15 minutes off the drive from the ports to Chino in heavy traffic.
With advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) like adaptive cruise control, which keeps his truck at a set distance from the vehicle in front of him, and automatic emergency braking, Williams also drives a safer truck.
]]>trucks lorries vehicles evs electric transport future diesel climate-changehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4ba45f674787/"Better truck design could save hundreds of pedestrian and cyclist lives"2016-09-26T09:58:23+00:00
http://irishcycle.com/2016/09/18/truck-blind-spots-from-virtually-none-to-meters-where-cyclists-are-hidden-from-drivers-view/
jmEuropean transport group, Transport and Environment, said that the Loughborough study shows that better design “could save hundreds of pedestrian and cyclists’ lives”. It added that the study “finds huge differences in the direct vision – what drivers can see with their own eyes – of best and worst-in-class trucks in all categories, and that ‘low-entry cabs’ like the Mercedes Econic out perform all of today’s best performing vehicles.”
A P-Series truck, from truck maker Scania, was rated at the best of its class with zero blind spots — this could go a long way to explaining why the makers of a Road Safety Authority video using another P-Series truck reportedly had to fake blind spots last year.
Mandatory extra mirrors has been EU policy to try to reduce collisions with people cycling and walking but researchers point out that blind spots remain on many trucks and improving direct vision may be a better policy than improving indirect vision using mirrors. [...]
The EU currently has a deadline of 2028 for improved vision in trucks but Transport and Environment said: “Given that better vision cabs are already available on the market and in all market segments (best in class, smarter configurations, low entry vehicles) a 2028 deadline is not justifiable.”
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