Even being able to knock their fuel bill down by 25%, just imagine the savings for a location like that!

@EpicZombiez2314

8 ай бұрын

So, according to a few articles, this mine uses approximately 54,000 gallons of fuel DAILY. If they can get even 1% better fuel efficiency overall, they will save 540 gallons a day, or almost 200,000 gallons of fuel a year.

@jeepindave5464

8 ай бұрын

​@@EpicZombiez2314wow

@manuelschubert3449

8 ай бұрын

Especially when you gave to bring all the fuel up there😮😮😮

@M60A3

4 ай бұрын

Peoples complain that electrifying won’t save the planet but if you look at it that way: you can save a shitload of money on fuel

@teamhop

Ай бұрын

Hey I’ve got some really great news to share with you, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died on a cross and resurrected on the third day so you may all have eternal life. If you believe and repent of your sins and put your faith and trust in Him as you would a parachute jumping off a plane at 25000 feet up in the air, He will give you eternal life in heaven as a free gift and I promise you, He will change your life forever as He did mine. He is the ONLY way to heaven and He loves you all. Please think deeply about this with urgency because this is your eternal life and soul, you don’t know when you could die, meaning you could die at any moment, so please consider this with all your heart. If anyone tells you that Jesus isn’t the only way, they are lying to you and they don’t care about your future.

I think you underestimate how interested I'd be in listening to grizzled mechanics tell horror stories about what breaks and how they have to fix it in extreme conditions.

You’ll never see aerodynamics down there that’s for sure

@teamhop

Ай бұрын

Hey I’ve got some really great news to share with you, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died on a cross and resurrected on the third day so you may all have eternal life. If you believe and repent of your sins and put your faith and trust in Him as you would a parachute jumping off a plane at 25000 feet up in the air, He will give you eternal life in heaven as a free gift and I promise you, He will change your life forever as He did mine. He is the ONLY way to heaven and He loves you all. Please think deeply about this with urgency because this is your eternal life and soul, you don’t know when you could die, meaning you could die at any moment, so please consider this with all your heart. If anyone tells you that Jesus isn’t the only way, they are lying to you and they don’t care about your future.

Next trip: Australia to check out the outback road trains.

@ps-motorhead911

8 ай бұрын

yes , outback trains.....

@phillip_mcguinness7025

5 ай бұрын

Especially since they can put drive axles on the trailers as well now.

@mzee5533

3 ай бұрын

@@phillip_mcguinness7025thatll be fucken great idea man

@teamhop

Ай бұрын

Hey I’ve got some really great news to share with you, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died on a cross and resurrected on the third day so you may all have eternal life. If you believe and repent of your sins and put your faith and trust in Him as you would a parachute jumping off a plane at 25000 feet up in the air, He will give you eternal life in heaven as a free gift and I promise you, He will change your life forever as He did mine. He is the ONLY way to heaven and He loves you all. Please think deeply about this with urgency because this is your eternal life and soul, you don’t know when you could die, meaning you could die at any moment, so please consider this with all your heart. If anyone tells you that Jesus isn’t the only way, they are lying to you and they don’t care about your future.

Chace: "we talked to the mechanic for a full day" Me: awesome! There is going to be some dry talk about specs and sh*t" Chace: "but that's boring so...." Me: damnit!

@AjGalloway95

8 ай бұрын

Right!

@samuelmoravec5401

8 ай бұрын

Bro fr I was so bummed

@estebanguerrero682

8 ай бұрын

same @@samuelmoravec5401

@SlungBlade

8 ай бұрын

Show the mechanic chat! I'm interested.

@bookworm8415

8 ай бұрын

Same. Do a summary video?!! Please? Or release a longform footage maybe?

Every truck with a plastic dash turns out just like that one. Just takes a little longer to fall apart on the highway. Stay away from plastic parts. Love seeing working trucks in action. Not many videos out there of heavy duty off highway work. Can’t wait to see an Edison Truck up there!

There are two places I absolutely want to see an Edison truck in the future. Pulling one of those land trains down in Australia and up there at Red dog. And I still think the Edison drivetrain model would work exceptionally well on highway, even if it isn't the design purpose.

@jakevimont787

8 ай бұрын

💯❤️

@boxr_4214

8 ай бұрын

the difficulty with edison making a competitive highway truck would probably be that aerodynamics are really hard and expensive to get right. i think that if edison wants to make a highway truck, the best route would be if they partnered with a large truck manufacturer. the other company could design and build the cab while edison handles the chassis and powertrain.

@Its-Just-Zip

8 ай бұрын

@@boxr_4214 that's kinda what I was thinking. I don't expect them to build it completely from scratch (at least not at first) but considering the efficiency savings in the power train alone you could probably ignore most of the aerodynamics and still end up with competitive efficiency.

@davtheslav7861

8 ай бұрын

I think the big problem with a highway model is weight. Those motors and batteries are quite heavy as is, would make for light loads with weight restrictions

@Its-Just-Zip

8 ай бұрын

@@davtheslav7861 I think they actually mentioned this in one of their earlier videos but that actually wouldn't be a problem because regulators give electric trucks more load that they can haul. And on top of that, because Edison is removing a drive shaft and several other very heavy components they said they were coming out under the weight on a conversion meaning you just end up with more load. Obviously that math would have to be redone depending on what regulations you're dealing with. And bridges don't care if you're electric or not so that might restrict some of your routes but it shouldn't be that big of a challenge

A few notes from and engineer to be taken or discarded as you see fit. I will work front to back sort of: 1) The front bumper may be used to push something. Its mounting should have the ability to spring a fair bit before it breaks anything. Keep the lights back of the front surface. 2) You may want to provide shutters to close off all the top side opening around the engine. This will keep the snow out and the heat in when either is needed. Insulation of some sort may also be good. 3) Block heaters, intake heaters, fuel line heaters and fuel tank heaters may all be needed if you want it to start after a cold night. Design them in so they are not an after thought design. 4) Insulate the cab for sure but remember that any place where warm cab air meets cold material will grow frost. Frost will turn to water later on. You need to plan that water's way to escape. The escape route needs to get bigger as it goes and made out of smooth material so that any water freezing will tend to drop off. 5) You also want to provide means of venting the cab up high. It does get warm (to hot) sometimes and a bit of air can help. 6) Make the seat very adjustable. People come is shapes and sizes but some of them may also be wearing a skidoo suit over lined jeans and a heavy sweater. 7) Check the requirements for the minimum temperature for the batteries and add heaters if needed. 8) For structure favor the "softer" grades of steel. In very cold temperatures you don't want steal to break when a bit of bending can be lived with. 9) Put on extra lights pointing back so that you can light what you are backing up onto from more than one angle. 10) Use "off the shelf" stuff and try to make it so that all the trucks tend to need the same spare parts. This can mean that in a few places, you over build jut to use the same part again.

@blendpinexus1416

6 ай бұрын

this is the philosophy i stand by. i'm no trained engineer (yet) but i will absolutely overbuild something if it means sharing parts and ensuring good performance in critical metrics.

Meeting with customers is absolutely critical for a startup to avoid tunnel vision. Great job and thanks for the video

For a place that has to ship in its fuel, any savings in that area pays off a lot faster.

Damn. Seeing the chassis of those 6900XDs, the tri-drive planetary drive axles, the off-road 12.00R24 tyres, and the load those trucks are hauling... those things are monsters.

@badazzamerican

9 күн бұрын

The heaviest load I've heard of coming off the scale was 516,000lbs the average weight we haul would be 450,000 lbs to 475,000lbs per load

What would be cool would be to build an Edison truck with four drive axles for this kind of application. Each axle is 335hp. With four axles that would work out to 1340hp. Just think of how much that truck could pull.

@any1alive

8 ай бұрын

well, thjey have a driven steer axle, and that means allt hey ned to do is add another axle to thier current truck and tis gucci

@WestCoastWheelman

8 ай бұрын

Plus however many more e-axles on the trailers as well! 46 wheel drive!

With electric drive, you also have an option of adding a drive to the trailers to help. Trains use multiple engines to pull their loads.

@everettstormy

8 ай бұрын

He's already planning on that.

@carholic-sz3qv

8 ай бұрын

With diesel they are driven by hydraulic systems like

@everettstormy

8 ай бұрын

@@carholic-sz3qv oh that's neat, but nah he's just gonna stick but e axles under a trailot

@carholic-sz3qv

8 ай бұрын

@@everettstormy it's still needs connection and electronics

@everettstormy

8 ай бұрын

@@carholic-sz3qv yeah, but just coolants and three phase.

Finally got a few minutes to edit some footage.

@tomw86

8 ай бұрын

I thought this was a bit…. Out of order

@i-love-comountains3850

8 ай бұрын

​@@tomw86 Theron/Chace did mention that there's going to be several videos that were shot previously and due to time constraints they'd be going up out of order. 👍

Dude this is an AWSOME video. wish it was longer. Please keep documenting things and places like this as you share your journey with us. Thank you

The trucking industry is so excited for these trucks because they are being built by truckers and mechanics people who drive and fix trucks all day long. not pencil pushers with computers trying to figure out how to make 30 cents more profitable. Thank you for your great service. I will be replacing my 280 truck fleet with yours when you get up to speed.

@4500tonpress

8 ай бұрын

Look at way these people are talking their sweet time builds this next truck ! Boys let’s get to work & stop the talking Their is 24/7/365 days in a year! One of the bad things being on KZread you are showing your computation how to build a better Truck 🎉

@4500tonpress

8 ай бұрын

One of the problems you are having in scaling up your business will be documentation all you have learned over the years and have all the drawing that follows! Please go out to the high school and colleges and recruit the young people to help you document and draw up as much information possible! These young students will surprise you in the year to come in pushing your company forward!

@lifeofabachelor8547

8 ай бұрын

These guys want competition in the trucking business. it means more innovation. do it right the first time it take time to do that. as Chase as said before sure they can spend millions put out a bunch of truck but there will be problems. take you time develop the product find out the problems. then release the product. large trucking companies wont be able to offer a product like Edison for various reasons. @@4500tonpress

@markbremmer8642

8 ай бұрын

​@@4500tonpressthat may be true. But will their competition build a better rig?

We use the centrifical air cleaners in the AG world too, they throw the dust outward and help keep us from plugging air filters in dust/dirt conditions.

I wonder if WesterStar was having issues with profitability given the enormous amount of custom options. Seems like they could have incorporated many of those options that are common to many uses as standard features

@QALibrary

8 ай бұрын

wonder why they did not split that away from the company and made it a brand in itself under different company control - others in the past have and to exert more control they could have easily signed into the setup a licensing and exclusive supply deals

@cabwaldo

8 ай бұрын

Western star is owned by daimler/chyrsler/fiat. Their primary goal is to push a planned obsolescence product that won't work when mass produced due to our infrastructure. Diesel-Electric hybrid has been proven by trains as chase mentioned. Fully battery electric has never been proven for transportation, let alone harsh conditions. It's not a profitably question because they would be loosing money like crazy trying to push this fully electric stuff if it weren't for government incentives.

@pat36a

8 ай бұрын

​@@QALibraryGovernment subsidies for electric vehicles. Profit margins, government regulations, EPA , Labor.

@brendanshroyer7696

8 ай бұрын

Not to my knowledge, but I do know that there are several types of vocational trucks that they're still reworking for the X Series. It's almost certainly that they'll build similarly heavy duty trucks again, but that will probably happen after they finish rolling out some of the other designs that they're still working on. The super heavy trucks are probably a lower priority because of the low sales volume.

@michaeldorosz6446

6 ай бұрын

They are owned by Mercedes Benz-- no money issues. They are like a peterbilt, they'll custom any truck for you, and make a profit.

It sucks that western star is getting out of the heavy duty truck building. But you guys are in the perfect place to capture that market before anybody else does. As a side note, if I wasn't married I would love to work up there.

Thanks for this video I’ve been working at the Red Dog Mine for years, it is one of the hardest places on equipment and people, it’s nice to see someone is taking the time to look into making better equipment thank you zig

@dans_Learning_Curve

8 ай бұрын

Interesting! What position do you have? Me only knowing about the mine from this video.

@ryancj1542

8 ай бұрын

How do you like it? I'm going to be spending this winter driving truck un prudhoe bay. I'm looking at options for after winter.

@davidzigrang7924

8 ай бұрын

@@ryancj1542 I like it I mostly work in the summers

@davidzigrang7924

8 ай бұрын

@@dans_Learning_Curve l work for a drilling company

If you want to outdo everyone else, make sure you hot-dip galvanize your frame rails, that way when you do build a triple-framed truck you won't have rust jacking ripping the frame apart. Galvanize anything that can or does get corroded. Design it so there are fewer crevices and you have blanking plates to keep salt and mud out. With the sunlight they get in the Arctic, I imagine solar plants to recharge the trucks could also improve efficiency and reduce fossil fuel dependence.

I work as an Industrial Electrician at one of Teck's mining operations in SE BC. Maybe if they are looking at buying some of your trucks at Red Dog we may see you and your trucks out here too

In terms of 'toughest trucks in the world' I'd believe it, though the Kenworth C540s mining trains down here I'd say are pretty close.

I'm not a trucker, but i am so looking forward in seeing what Edison motors will become in the years to Come. Rooting for you guys!

I love that you talk to mechanics, not engineers or sales reps

Getting a truck to them literally means sending them 2 or 3 trucks worth of parts just because of the ice locked port... this is a massive investment and an incredible opportunity for the advancement of the trucking industry

I have a idea. How about making the heavy haulers with drive axles for the trailers for having a pusher for snow and a back up axle if something goes haywire.

I work at fording coal 1980-88 all lubetruck and fuel truck kenworth was custom built and design.this truck in red dog is not over built is because the terrain,location,work so on.the customer don't want on cheap.the video expose real reality up north.thank you good report.

Beautiful work and great job Chase! Who wuda knew that a Corporation would have listened to the investors in stead of the people who use the products they built (yes the past tense for a reason) Good luck and keep on doing what you love!

Sounds like you need to take a trip down under! Some of the prime movers down in Australia mean some serious business! They move comparable weight to these trucks in absolutely insane conditions while still being on public roads and infrastructure. It would be interesting to see how a 6900 series holds up against a T909 and eventually where your guys' trucks would stack up as well🤔 Nevertheless, very cool video! It was neat getting to see all that big equipment so up close and personal!👍

Super sweet. Love when company's actually talk to guys using the products day in and day out and apply that knowledge going forward building stuff. Maybe visit a few fishermen and ask em about their generators. Being on the ocean, hard on gear, short on time and money, those guys know what a good genset is. When a bearing seizes and wipes out the rotator assembly it ain't fun. Or if you short a wire and the thing catches fire 20 mikes offshore....no bueno.

I am extremely interested in seeing an Edison road locomotive working here.

Those are made to order I'm afraid. Extreme duty rigs are amazing. The punishment those rigs take they can never be overbuilt. Better hit the petroleum dirt mines and take a look there next. Trust me working in remote locations our super duty trucks got beat up good; and we did pretty light work compared to the rig works. Electric move n stop power is being used on the front lines of heavy extreme duty.

@husamabudawoud3258

8 ай бұрын

I was a truck junkie since I learned to talk. Bit my tung not to scream I want one off the top of my lungs.

Hardest part of being a team leader is knowing when to step back and learning how to delegate

If the Edisons can survive up there, they can survive everywhere.

Would you need to have some sort of heater for the batteries up in that kind of cold? Those western stars are sweet!

Been to Red Dog a few times to work on their Satellite internet system at the mine and port sites. Impressive operation for sure.

I wish pacific was still around

@AndyEightSevenFive

6 ай бұрын

Still a few around that have the tires turning... I was never around 'em hauling logs, or a bunch of 'em hauling sections a single tree haha. Something else pinned up to a deck with a D11 pulling a grade though.

We have 2 old wwesteren starts similar to those at our mine. All the other trucks get replaced every few years but these just never die.

Thats way cool! I've always thought it would be cool to do a job like that, some kind of crazy remote heavy haul type of job

Don’t forget to add insulation.😂

G'day lads, what a video to wake up to

To see those heavy duty b- doubles that were used to transport those containers was just insane , to think that here in australia the most you could probably do with two trailers is 4 containers max. But to see the three containers on the lead trailer just blew me away. Thanks for the upload :D

Absolutely brilliant video

It is the best way. Is not to micromanage. It gives the person/people room to grow in the area they are in. For the said company they worrk for. All micromanage does is make the workers fill like they are not trusted on doing the task at hand.

Ah, you have to love hearing the word skookum when talking about working equipment.

Chase you think they’re over specked. You should come out to Australia and check out some of our road trains running mine work for you or blow your mind what pieces of machinery. 5 trailers long with 500+ tonnes on the back. Those western star trucks are babies compared to ours.

Those tracks are just a thing of beauty. ❤😊

Thoese wheel loaders are tuff

You'll have to put your feelers out to find someone to get you to do similar on the other end of the spectrum over in Western Australia in the Pilbara with the iron ore haul trucks. They would be pulling similar loads in 40-50°C all summer.

I saw that picture of the triple axle back end and I thought the front axle should be live. Another axle could mean 6 cargo boxes. You want a driver directable flood light on the top center of the cab! Maybe have an electrically prepared to the front tires, but able to be directly pointed to the engine if a mechanic is trying to work on it at night in the middle of nowhere.

But also dont forget us OTR guys, if you guys are really bringing cabovers back its gonna be glorious.

You have talked about potentially having electric motors in the trailers in the future, to me it seems like somewhere like this might be a place where that makes a lot of sense.

@bryceblakeman8122

8 ай бұрын

Depends on if there are steep grades to climb. Would be hard to control if the truck spun out but the trailer kept going

I work in the concrete industry, so i'd be very interested to know how that trip went

@dans_Learning_Curve

8 ай бұрын

I wonder how concrete is related to building trucks? *EDIT* After reading other comments, duh, concrete trucks! LoL 🤣😆

@Buddha_the_Pug

8 ай бұрын

@@dans_Learning_Curve lol yeah, I meant the trucks. I should have been more specific. I bet a mixer truck could benefit from this diesel electric treatment, being mostly local and stop and go traffic

@markbremmer8642

8 ай бұрын

The haul trucks that are used by concrete companies, would benefit as well. Lower fuel cost= bigger profit. But they won't pay their employees more despite the savings.

A few traction motors on the trailers will make that truck un stop able

hey i have an idea for you if you add two removable batteries to the sides in addition to the ones between the frame rails with quick connect fittings they could run those down then pop them off at one end of the run or the other for recharging and the diesel generator on the truck can keep up with the batteries between the frame rails and you could have multiple battery packs available for runs or grid down situation or work them into a hybrid grid system for both locations they can run their three phase generators to charge the power banks then run everything off the batteries and only run the generator when using high load applications

@vinceprincipato9

8 ай бұрын

@@brianb-p6586 true but everything started as someone’s idea at one point

@karlhering1298

3 ай бұрын

Saddlebag type batteries could be GREAT! Quick release setup would allow a truck to finish it's shift if a module goes kaput, AND if a truck is going to have a high power day, they could be added to save fuel. A truck doing cycle routes could be battery swapped while the trailer is being loaded/unloaded, possibly doing electric ALL day, even if going uphill loaded and downhill empty. So many possibilities

It would definitely be interesting to see how well your truck would perform up at those mines. Would you have to coat the electrical connections to improve longevity on the connections? But I bet the fuel savings would be pretty attractive to them, I'm sure the cost is substantial. The concrete truck is pretty interesting to me, I'm really curious about that one. Those trucks spend a good amount of time idling, which this truck would help a lot of that.

Trailers with a pusher axel getting power from the tractor.. would be a cool idea.

You went to Nome?? South of the brooks range…. Not the north slope….just what?? Red dog is amazing for their ability to stay relevant with Chily pulling so much.. great job owners for keeping their jobs going!!!!

Awesome video

3:00 lol the lady was like “what in the hell are they putting thumbs up to?”

Mineral Resources are already a long way along the line of automating road trains for iron ore hauling, I'm sure they would be interested in electrifying too... Long way from where you guys are, but still an idea worth pursuing.

It may be no good for on highway trucks doing long haul, however as well as the super heavy applications, it would also be suitable for super short haul like in container ports where a lot of fuel usage is in idling and acceleration on short trips

Congratulations on learning to grow your company.

baffinland uses 6900's on their haul road, we did on the coal haul in chetwynd, 100t payload and powered trailers, cabs same as ours lol, open dash to reset the breakers on the fly

Chalmers is a Canadian company and designed for heavy duty and off road rugged trucking, FYI.

Excellent video in every way!!

In this application you could also make a trailer chassis with one or two powered axles to help get the load moving and uphill. With its own batteries too. In this application the weight added would be almost negligible compared to the weight moved, whereas on over the road with 80k lb weight caps on trucks that weight makes a big difference.

Much respect to you and your mission brother!

Msha gonna be up there now seeing that the headlight was out on that KW

Just love your story ❤❤❤From Norway

I just watched the video where topsy gets taken to the vancouver EV truck show, and holy crap! I cant believe how fast you guys built that thing! Its a frame with wheels, half a cab and an engine in this video! Then 3 days ago its rolling off the trailer! Good job man!!

My kind of guys! Maybe I can swing by from Michigan to play with you all some day!

Old school parts like signal stat is smart thinking, another rear suspension system is Chalmers,non air, no valves or complicated plumbing issues. Keep going with your Mountain Climber.

I like the application u found for the Edison truck

Now imagine if you had the tractor axles driven AND the Trailer axles driven...4 trailers rolling...

Now that is what ive been talking about to some friends whom never been north of the arctic circle. Every community in Nunavut and most of NWT are very remote and usually get fuel once a year from super tankers, only other way is by air since there are no inter connecting roads

I can remember the 🇨🇦Western Star’s being piggy backed from out of Kelowna. Was a sad day when they closed that plant. Interesting content. 👍

"The things we do just to look at cool trucks i tell ya"😂 love it

wow those trucks are a beast! would be cool to be there american truck simulator

I'm surprised you guys haven't looked into building DUAL POWERED ROAD TRAINS

AWESOME!

That was fun and interesting, hope you guys can begin to capture some of that market in the future !!

I want to see the Edison truck pulling a whole rig in Alaska, or the Middle East

🔥is that ever cool.. fun fact I have a piece of iron ore from that mine, my ex brother in-law was a cat tech and went out for 2 seasons 🔥👊🔥⚙️🏍🚜🔨kickass video man

Love from Ohio brother Hope it all works out well

My wifes company ownes the operations at Red Dog. Back in the mid 80's I thought we were going to the mine for a life time job. Instead her local office found out she was trying to change jobs so to keep her they promoted her. She did not tell me that was her plan. I spent a couple of years waiting for the go signal until I quizzed her as to why we were still in Spokane. The ore (lead, zinc & Sliver) is real rich.....700 pounds of metal per ton of rock mined. The rock is milled/crushed then a process of bubbling air through the ground up ore causes the metal to stick to the air bubbles. It is called Float and the gray brown mass is scooped off of the water and stock piled. The float is moved to the port and barged to Vancouver BC. It is transloaded on to trains which head south to Everett, WA then east to Spokane, WA and North to Fruitvale, BC then moved by Aerial conveyors up hill to Trail, BC for smelting.

Should go have a gander at the stars that look about the same, up at the diavik mines in NWT ....they haul big trains up and down the haul road.

If the "bean counters" at Red Dog are any good - and people in those jobs usually are - they will already have figured out what the "strike price" for an Edison truck needs to be to make them worth buying and what the potential annualized ROI is. If they haven't done the math yet, SOMEONE will be asking them too. If Edison can make a logging truck work, there is a HUGE market open to a specialized manufacturer of specialized rigged trucks. One of my first comments was that Edison needs to learn how to "scale" quickly - but this "scale" probably won't look like the way a Tesla would scale up. Locking down the supply of e-axles and batteries is probably a priority. From a climate activist point of view (I'm not) that just HATES mining (as they use their iPhone and don't see the hypocrisy LMAO) Edison trucks in the arctic would be environmentally so much better than diesel. And a Tesla Megapack or two plus solar or windmills (or both) calculated into the remaining service life of the mine ... if Red Dog management are good they WILL do the math. Getting diesel to that mine has GOT to be expensive - electricity doesn't HAVE to be. You know the round trip distances and the diesel cost - an all-electric truck here is easy to justify.

@paulgregory7278

8 ай бұрын

Yep. If the numbers work it is the default ROI decision. It would be irresponsible to the owners to not go Edison.

@Bob_Lob_Law

8 ай бұрын

You won't be getting solar up there, but it's likely quite windy year-round.

@stauker.1960

8 ай бұрын

I wouldn't trust solar that far north. Wind power, yes. Nuclear would be the best option, but I don't think technology is quite there yet

@8.6GivenAdqVacSysm

8 ай бұрын

Wind will have a lot of ice/snow freeze up issues likely. But yes, any thing that would reduce daily fuel usage would be a big savings that far out.

@stauker.1960

8 ай бұрын

@@8.6GivenAdqVacSysm it's an electric wind turbine, if nobody's thought of heating them electrically, I might actually lose faith in humanity. We've got heated floors and liquid cooling, I'm sure we've got electrical cooling and liquid heating.

Great Video

You mention R. G. LeTourneau he made an Arctic train type truck machine which had several trailers with electric wheel units on each tire.

Would adding a few e axles on those trailers in aid in the handling of those heavy loads.

I think you are best going off with a steel interior for durability the old capacity yard jockey trucks we ran at the railyard would take such a beating from vibrations and bumps but they would never rattle apart absolutely love what you doing by the way

I'm eager to see how your trucks perform in these conditions. Think your weakest link will be the batteries and keeping them warm will be a challenge. Not impossible but challenging

@dans_Learning_Curve

8 ай бұрын

I believe the batteries have heaters.

@94Gidge

8 ай бұрын

​@@dans_Learning_Curvepretty shure they do. But even if they didn't or if the inbuilt heaters couldn't keep up I'm the extreme cold it would not be hard to use coolant to coolant heat exchanger and a thermostat to heat them using the engine coolant.

can't stress this enough battery warmers and fuel warmers

That looks so cool. Im heading to prudhoe bay to run winch trucks yhis winter. It looks so exciting

In northern Australia they run trucks from the lines that are bigger but arnt running in snow they're running on dry desert conditions which has its own issues but probably a lot easier on the rig than running in Alaska like those blokes. Mental running conditions

One thing I have always been curious about is how drive axles on trailers would work. I don't think it would make any sense for highway trucks, but off highway trucks like those, where its snow, mud, ice, and a set truck and trailer, would it be beneficial to have some tractive effort from the trailer wheels? Also, if you were stuck in a snow storm, the battery could run a heater for a few days at least.

This seems like the ideal case for a railroad? It's transporting huge weight between two fixed locations through remote areas. Might be lucrative for Edison Motors to look at offering a kind of custom "road train on rails" solution in the future, especially with electric trailers and regen braking? Maybe some kind of hi-rail like tractor/trailers? They could move multiple times the weight at the same output power they currently have, at faster speeds and more fuel efficiently. As I understand it, at these weights and speeds, the main road load power requirement is overcoming rolling resistance. There has to be some substantial fuel savings with steel wheels on steel track vs air tire on soft road. Of course it's hard to say if the fuel savings is worth the capital investment and upkeep without looking at numbers.

You have 156k potential hires!