Using a battery-powered garbage truck to collect trash in a city like New York is not a stinky idea.
pickup truck represent a beefier type of electric conveyance, and one of the beefiest ones on the block are huge electric garbage trucks from Mack.
“Range is always a concern with any electric vehicle, but the nice thing about refuse vehicles is they’re generally running regular, predictable routes,” says Scott Barraclough, a product manager at Mack Trucks. That pattern lends itself well to charging, because “they’re home every night at the same location.”Plus, the start-and-stop nature of neighborhood garbage collection helps, too.
Mack makes the truck’s chassis, but the body up top—the part that squashes the garbage and stores it—comes from one of three different companies and connects to the vehicle’s frame.They’re quiet enough for a conversation “The fact that it’s so quiet—that’s a bonus,” he says; the main reason for employing it is that it has
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