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And the fact its good for a lot more cycles making a replacement far less likely in the normal lifespan of a passenger car. For heavy duty trucks like the semi its a different ballgame as the expected useful life is around a million miles so its significantly more than passenger vehicles...

LMFP has been in the news more recently which is supposed to improve energy density of LFP among some other benefits. Will be interesting to see if it takes off. A huge benefit to LFP is just its much lower cost making EVs more affordable which is needed to get more adoption. From what I have...

Thanks, its clearly available and in use then!!!

BYD has a really nice LFP blade cell design that allows for cooling plates on the top and bottom for better cooling. I believe CATL is planning to release a similar design soon if they have not already. There is some experimentation going on with LFP to add additional metals and adjusting the...

Its definitely the chemistry. LFP is way more stable and can handle way more cycles then NMC/NCA. I just did a quick search and this clip seemed reasonable comparing the differences. https://www.recurrentauto.com/research/lfp-battery-in-your-next-ev-tesla-and-others-say-yes

Thats how it currently works with all the electric Semis globally. Do you think they put public chargers at their depots? Do you see a lot of places for a semi to charge with a trailer attached mid route? No electric semis are doing cross country runs, they are for local/regional use and mostly...

I ran across these articles today by the ICCT which I thought were interesting related to the question of HD charging infrastructure: Battery electric trucks - US Northeast electric utilities and planning for tomorrow Also: Powering Seattle fleets - Charging infrastructure strategy for battery...

Good question. Seems incredibly difficult to get enough charging @350kW available in many truck depots to support electric trucks. A number of MCS stations would probably be a heck no for most areas. I am very interested to see how this goes as EV semis start appearing in bigger numbers due to...

How big was the rock you are living under?

Semi related article...

Finalized, no. Far enough along that there will not be major changes so hardware can roll out, yep.

Lead times for sites, especially ones that use an MCS charger are quite long if they can even be supported at all due to local infrastructure. If you have a site that has multiple MCS chargers that will be in use at the same time....whoa. One issue with fleets is a lot of the depot sites are...

Came to post this and you all were on it! It was nice to see the tare weights which eliminates some of the guessing although they ended up what was expected IMO. One key note that a lot of people miss is the truck is not meant for all applications. There has been a lot of talk about this truck...

I'm not aware of either piece of information. I assume the Semi is just rolling out to more "fleet test" partners and not an actual sale which is why we do not have price. I have not seen any actual tractor weight info available either.

I believe NHSTA (or other agency in NA) requires exterior mirror(s)? Not sure about the passcar regulations, but it's been an issue for semi-trucks. If you look some of the newer trucks have very small mirrors which meet the minimum requirements and use cameras as supplement for the decreased size.