EV truck development.

With all the media being focussed on Tesla, Rivian, and Nikola in the heavy truck EV field , and Nikola now claiming to be ready for mass production,.....it came as a bit of a surprise to me that there are quite a variety of EV trucks already in use from multiple manufacturers and in many classes of use.
All the main players GM, Kenworth, Peterbilt, Volvo, etc etc have EV trucks out there, and the more i search around, the more i feel the truck market is ahead of the EV car market ?
Check some of them here...
https://californiahvip.org/vehiclecatalog/

I would think that any truck that is on a regular route would benefit from going electric. The trick is having enough battery to make it through the day's route and being able to fully recharge in 12 hours.

Mail vehicles are a perfect user-profile. They actually don't drive very far in miles, and when they are not moving, they are not using any energy. I often see them pull up to a corner, get out and walk up and down one block, then reposition the car. Of course some neighborhoods have drive-up mailboxes, and also "gang" boxes (like at an apartment building).

Door to door mail services are long gone. I remember when I had milk in a bag delivered to the house, Casino's and government run liquor stores closed on Sundays. Now I get all huffy puffy when I head on out to the bicycle store and its closed on a Monday.

Most of the parking-lot airport shuttles at San Diego airport are now EV. It's about the perfect application. Fixed distance trip, fast chargers there anyway for customers, stop and go traffic.

Check out Lightning E motors in Colorado. We are doing lot's of Ford Transit van conversions right now.

I am in the high voltage wire fabrication department, where I am creating the main wires for the batteries and the connections.
Nice equipment. Most of the trucks are getting two, or three batteries. Lot's of local delivery vans being ordered by large
companies. The last fifty units or so only used one battery, for in town deliveries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzF9eqh4s_Y&t=3s

It's exciting times over here, lot's of developments going on. Several larger applications in RnD right now too. . .

One year ago, we had 60 people, now we are up to 240! They are hiring, and growing in leaps and fits!

Josh K.

Good job. These will make a fleet manager's job a piece of cake and save the owners a ton of money in the long run.

There is a company around my parts that converts Toyota Landcruisers to electric for use in the mining industry and they've been doing it for several years now. I don't know much about them but I'm surprised to see a firm like that up here.

https://www.millertechnology.com/

...that is just a conversion on a relatively small truck.
There are many such companies.
I was refering to the class 8 heavy haul interstate trucks , that are key to National logistics.