There are around 150,000 refuse trucks in the US. An electric garbage truck and an electric bus are on display during the press preview for the International Auto Show at the Jacob Javits Convention. The turbine should run for about 10,000 hours between service, cutting maintenance costs along with fuel bills. Wrightspeed won't reveal pricing, but one estimate puts it around $200,000. The first retrofitted Mack LR garbage truck is about to ship. The company offers kits to retrofit existing trucks and outfit new ones.įedEx has ordered 25 and already outfitted two delivery vehicles. Wrightspeed’s turbine drivetrain, batteries, and motors fit in the space of a conventional diesel engine, gearbox, differentials, and two rear axles. “You can meet California emissions without any after-treatment.” “The exhaust is incredibly clean,” says Wright. The high temperature, continuous combustion means pretty much everything is burned, leaving little pollution. They can run on almost any flammable liquid (Chrysler claimed its car could run on everything from from peanut oil to perfume), but Wrightspeed plans on using easy diesel or natural gas. Turbine engines are simpler than reciprocating engines. The Mack LR Electric delivers the same comfort, visibility and reliability as the diesel-powered LR. Other automakers have considered small turbines as range extenders, but found they don't scale down well.īut they could be just right for trucks. Harness 120 years of innovative trucking technology with the most durable, hard-working electric truck on the streets today. A Lotus racecar of similar vintage was fast but unreliable, and generally considered crazy. Chrysler plopped them into cars in the 1960s and '70s but gave up on the scheme. That sounds great, but turbines have a spotty history in vehicles. Coupled to motors at the wheels, it makes the system more similar to a train, which have used hybrid engines for decades, or a hugely overpowered Chevrolet Volt. When the battery runs low, a turbine spins up, burning fuel to generate electricity to keep the truck moving.
So Wright developed an electric drivetrain that bolts right in. But they're devilish environmental actors, belching diesel exhaust all day as they creep through the city. But Wright realized he could make a much bigger difference tackling trucks most often associated with early morning wakeups, diesel fumes, and the stench of rotting garbage. He wanted to build a high-performance electric sports cars and even created a concept called the X1 that could hit 60 mph in under three seconds. The truck costs an estimated 570,000 (as of December 2021), Zinn said, compared to the 321,900 that the city would spend on a diesel-powered truck. Wright is a founder of Tesla Motorswho left early on to launch Wrightspeed. Now Zinn hopes to further the city’s trajectory toward a greener trash collection system with a fully electric truck that would eliminate tailpipe greenhouse gas emissions. Ian Wright sees them revolutionizing something else: garbage trucks. They cram piles of power into a small, lightweight package, and have revolutionized air travel since their invention in the 1930s.
You can read more on electric vehicles and the zero-emissions transition plan on the Transport Canberra website.Turbine engines are ideal technology for jets. “Our company believes in solving challenges with key partnerships through technology and we strive to develop new equipment that meet environmental outcomes for now and into the future.”
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“Bucher Municipal is pleased to be partnering with the ACT Government and Transport Canberra and City Services for a trial of our full electric waste compaction vehicle,” said Darren. The trial will provide an understanding of the features and benefits of electric powered heavy commercial vehicles to provide Canberra with cleaner, quieter waste and recycling collection services in the future.ĭarren Gear from Burcher Municipal NSW/ACT was excited for the proposition of electric garbage trucks for the ACT. The electric garbage truck will be based at the government’s Allara St depot in Civic, which has already been fitted with charging infrastructure following an earlier electric tipper truck trial.
Transport is responsible for 60 percent of harmful emissions in the ACT, so when it comes to tackling climate change, switching fuelled vehicles to electric ones is a high priority.įollowing the addition of 12 battery electric buses to the Transport Canberra fleet this year and a further 90 on the way, the ACT Government has taken another step toward zero emissions by trailing an electric garbage truck.
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