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Originally Posted by JeffreyG
One challenge fleets have with BEV is that they need to work hand in hand with utilities. It's one thing to plug in a single BEV at your house at night. It's a whole 'nother situation if you are plugging in 50 or 100 trucks to charge at a single facility. And these are just pickups. My company is now selling BEV Class 6 and Class 8 trucks. These have (literally) around an order of magnitude more energy on board. Charging infrastructure is not trivial.
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Good point. The battery-electric bus fleet in Edmonton was introduced in coordination with a new bus garage (which was being built anyway), and the charging infrastructure added substantially to the garage cost, although a small fraction of the bus cost. By the way, this garage also needed a stronger floor and bigger hoists to handle the extra weight of the buses, compared to the diesels. These buses (Proterra 40-ft with the biggest battery) have about 675 kWh battery capacity (roughly four times the capacity of the long-range F-150 Lightning).
Fortunately, for the individual owner a decent charging station just has the electrical demand of a clothes dryer.