(09-12-2022, 06:15 AM)northernblue date Wrote:Interesting LP, I seem to have heard a fair bit of noise about busses and heavy trucks… I would have thought they were quite a reasonable simile for tradie vehicles ?Trucks as hydrogen are genuinely a general purpose go.
Some trucks and buses are a little bit different in that they drive fixed routes on pre-planned schedules, so you can have in-situ charging facilities at a terminus. One nice plan I saw for buses it inductive charging loops embedded in the road at stops and regular intervals.
Trucks that travel point to point, like from the wharfs to warehouses, are being targeted, but they will have a different setup with interchangeable / quick change batteries. But nobody is talking about where the energy is going to come from, it's magic electricity at the moment.
In Melbourne the main R&D at the moment is being done by people like Hyzon, on hydrogen buses for long range interstate routes, this will translate to trucks as well.
There is quite a bit of R&D going on globally for hydrogen heavy transport, trains and ships, etc. etc. Solar PV / battery is just not viable due to the energy requirements.
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