This is the first time in history that a truck driver has said, “This truck has too much power” 😂

@1ute

8 ай бұрын

Cascade Heavy Rescue! You guys should buy one of these rigs

dont worry, we like watching it driving around too lmao

@stauker.1960

8 ай бұрын

Three* lol 😅

Hey Chase I'm a Hybrid vehicle tech, in the U.S. Vehicles are required to make some sort of noise while operating at low speed in EV mode. Toyotas have a speaker that plays a humming noise. So how about a speaker on TOPSY that plays steam engine or jake brake noises?

@tweezerjam

8 ай бұрын

Or just some guy going “vroom vrooooom”

@devinw8809

8 ай бұрын

​@@tweezerjamOr make it programmable so you can set your own. I certainly set it as Dannie Thornberry's yabidabidabodobidabidabidabi rambling cause ether you are annoyed out of the way or have a smile remembering The Wild Thornberrys tv show as I pass.

@tweezerjam

8 ай бұрын

@@devinw8809 I didn’t know what that was. I do now… wtf 😂

@i-love-comountains3850

8 ай бұрын

​@@devinw8809 I love it😂

@charlesball6519

8 ай бұрын

Chase should look up Angie The Great, who built a program to realistically produce engine sounds. There's another company who is using his program to produce engine noises for their e-bikes.

Watching the truck drive around silently under electric power is eerie. Also I love how much it looks like a diesel electric train

@pablotharpalo5685

8 ай бұрын

It reminds me of the GP units with the little nose

I really like the footage of the truck just driving around, it seems weird to see a huge powerful truck that’s completely silent

@ehta2413

8 ай бұрын

Came here to say just this! I think the footage of it driving around is essential, since it's the difference of knowing how much noise trucks make usually to watch this one just rolling along, completely silent :D

I'm not sure if you understand how Edison Motors has captured the "Zeitgeist" of the Canadian diaspora,... you can see it in the comments sections. Your popularity will allow you to plow thru the morass that is Canadian Bureaucracy, Under promise results and reap the benefits of blown out expectations , it will be harder for a low production manufacture. In your favour however are the next level performance that Ev's provide that will smash any detractors bluster. What i am personally looking for are the results only YOU can provide on the logging roads. I believe that once that vehicle is dialed in, ..accelerator mapping and control functions , even YOU will be blown away by the precision of this "testbed". Good luck Edison Motors.

Dude using the same hybrid system (kinda) to power a farm on an island is so freaking awesome! Man what y'all are doing is legendary! Y'all are moving solar diesel hybrid systems in the right direction. We don't have the technology to move completely away from oil.

Thank you for leaving the footage in. We like watching it drive around too

I think we need a video of the truck doing burnouts... maybe a couple donuts

I like tha fact that you are driving the change to renewable energy, but are realistic about the continued reliance on diesel (even if only for backup in this case). Good luck to you, can't wait to aee that truck in action.

Watching it drive around is 100% relevant! We've all been waiting for it, along side you and the team.

Love the gratuitous truck driving around shots! keep em coming. I dunno if I can ever get used to watching a quiet truck with a metric ton of power.

Have you ever considered recovering the waste heat from the generators and batteries to a heat exchanger for space heating or domestic hot water? I wonder how many gallons of domestic hot water you could get in an insulated tank on that 4 hour generator charge run... Take a look into "cogeneration" systems, pretty cool stuff.

5:20 Hawaii Islands over the last few years have done the same with a lot of their islands with solar and wind farms with batteries - they have been taking out diesel generators because they were never getting used. Even the main and bigger islands are closing down fossil fuel power stations due to the costs and also they get enough power from renewables. The plan is to get fossil fuel free by 2040ish which will save the population a lot of money because they do not need to import petroleum-based products and other fossil fuels which cost a lot more because it has to be transported from mainland USA.

@Patriot46426

8 ай бұрын

Gotta get the unwanted off the islands first by raising rates on everything and then have a massive fire for a planned "smart" community

@-LightningRod-

8 ай бұрын

@@Patriot46426 Don't forget to VOTE friend, ... VOTE like yer Life depends on it

@laupernut

8 ай бұрын

Mini solar power stations are popping up in rural Ghana too, as it's too expensive to put up power lines for 20 houses in the bush. Theives have been stealing the high-tension cables, and wooden poles don't work after bush fires burn them down. So the government gave it a rethink and came up with the mini solar power stations. They also have the benefit of no power cuts; unfortunately, I'm on the national grid, and I'm lucky if I get power for three days in a row. It looks like the way forward for a lot of countries.

@QALibrary

8 ай бұрын

@@laupernut I was writing about power wires being taken for scrap and poles being chopped down for fire woods and construction back in 1999 - even solar panels to run cell towers and other remote stations were/still are being stolen - all this come from what I read in the 1980s

We also love watching the truck drive around.

Chase, don’t edit it down, we like to see the truck drive too!

Truly glad to have found you tonight. Hail from this NC electrician and father. Hope I get to meet you in the rest world one day. I look forward to the 70 mph+ highway test when she is ready. Never give up you're doing great work.

Lol 3:00 I too enjoy watching it. So weird/funny/cool. You can see it moving but all you hear is the rocks in tread of tires. Awsome

I loved that you truckers hybridized a whole island, which adds to the betterment of the country. Meanwhile the Canadian government is wasting millions on punishing truckers, to the detriment of the country. Good work

This will be awesome cant wait to see topsy rip

Man it is eerie to watch a big truck moving around just fuckin silently! "Felt like a bigwig having a meeting in an office in downtown Toronto..." Then fly home like a bigwig on Flair :D Awesome work men!

Congratulations on delivering the truck. And mad props to the solar system! I've had some experience with solar but only On-Grid systems. I think that there's a huge need in creating an integration between On and Off Grid! Haven't seen yet a good system that works well woth storage and sending the exceeding power to the grid. But judging by your clever ideas and solutions, maybe soon enough there will be such system!

I think it's amazing to see this driving on all electric. It's so quiet, you don't hear the engine, you don't hear the air brakes much, it's dead quiet.

@johnwenzel2003

8 ай бұрын

They should dress her up like a ghost and run 'er in a Halloween parade. The kids would love it. 😊

"Take his shirt off" 🤣🤣🤣

it's unnerving that a thing that big is so silent

@-LightningRod-

8 ай бұрын

trust me, ..in the operators seat there is nothing quite so terrifying as an armature under full load.

@EdisonMotors

8 ай бұрын

It’s so weird, something this big and powerful shouldn’t move that silently

@i-love-comountains3850

8 ай бұрын

​@@EdisonMotors I'm sure you may have mentioned it at one point, but are you planning on adding some sort of speaker system or noise system so that pedestrians and folks on job sites don't walk into a blind spot unawares?

@jlhutto

8 ай бұрын

Then don't go to a rail yard... Let's just say we call them our silent killers at the mine

@-LightningRod-

8 ай бұрын

@@jlhutto i think Rail Executives are the biggest Losers when it comes to Bev's. You could literally add C-Cans full of batteries to be exchanged at remote yards and eliminate fuels altogether. I see about a million HP go by my window and a couple of tons of soot deposite4d on my boulevard every day. Lets be honest about Diesel -Electric when it comes to Rail in Canada,...its bullshit and still stuck in the early 20thCentury.. Somebody should KICK BomBardier right in the nutsack for being so damn lame.

AWESOME! CONGRATS!

Building a hybrid truck prototype is extremely difficult and takes a lot of skill, ingenuity, intelligence and effort. Getting to profitable production at scale will be 100X harder. Sincerely wish you the best of luck.

People who dont want to see it move csn fast forward. Those of us who enjoy seeing a well made project live really enjoy seeing that extra footage as well.

This is incredible

i liked the extra footage of it driving around. so odd something that size driving and being nearly silent. Just hearing road noise, it's wild.

Hey! You’re in my neck of the woods. Nicholson island is mostly considered a very private place by locals, not much known about it, apart from it being where rich people go pheasant hunting, so funny to see it pop up here!

I can hear that the truck is silent, but I still hear the diesel exhaust in my head. I think this might be like when front wheel drive came out 50 or 60 years ago.

my dude, we also like just watching the truck drive around 👍😋 glad you kept the footage in there.

I hope this company succeeds. Like, REALLY.

Sinclair Avenue is looking sweet

At the 3:15 mark you had just said on the video that the footage didn't add to the story, and that you just like watching the truck drive around. My impression was that yeah, it looks cool, but what I noticed most was the only thing we heard was wind blowing past the wind cover on the mic. I drove a hybrid Highlander and enjoyed rolling uphill in a parking lot and sneaking up on the pedestrians.

nice

Couple ideas for you, with electric throttle mapping it'd be cool if you had a way to adjust the sensitivity of the pedal to whatever the operator desires. If someone wants a race car, they can adjust it more aggressively Also I can't remember what steering system is on the truck. If you get electric over hydraulic steering, you can also change the steering rate. Make the steering faster on road and slower off-road in the bush Just a couple thoughts!

@ARockRaider

8 ай бұрын

yah a "throttle" leaver on the dash so the driver can pick how much go he wants on the fly, cuz going empty you don't want that much, but loaded you might want more! either that or the truck will have to simply have a max acceleration set that won't ever let the tires spin, loaded or empty.

@aidanolkowski9113

8 ай бұрын

Trample Mode and Grazing Mode

@1ute

8 ай бұрын

It could have dynamic throttle mapping for different loads

"potential customers" i think you have guaranteed customers and wouldnt doubt that youll have plenty of investors

Keep all the video of it driving around! I feel the same way about my truck. I've only watched it drive a few times without me in it! Keep up the great work!!

This is Super rad! I just started with a solar company here in Colorado as an electrician🎉

@capnkirk5528

8 ай бұрын

Awesome. There is tremendous opportunity in the renewables sector and not nearly enough people working there yet. Quality honest electricians will be in short supply for a while (not that they weren't already) as people switch to solar, heat pumps for heat and hot water, and home batteries for power arbitrage and home backup. Even simple things like a panel for emergency systems and charging your EV. The demand is likely going to skyrocket as people trust the grid less and less and the impacts of climate change make it less reliable.

pertaining to the Island farm, go check out Hydrogen House, he uses electrolysers to change solar power when needs are met in summer to hydrogen which is stored until dark months to change back to electricity when needed.

The "not firing it up, just key in on position" gave me a chuckle. Love seeing it drive around at length too

Awesome seeing it come this far, stay at it.

Need to make sure you add the needed reflective tape on the back of the cab and the mud flaps to meet spec on the regulations. Love the work your team is doing!!!

Wow you can really see how quick it could be it's gonna be a brute!

@0:59 I would personally say, “get her juiced up”

I am not a truck guy but I love your trucks! lol

Trying not to be picky because I feel what you boys are doing is a thing of beauty…CEC Section 36 High Voltage is Greater then 750 Vrms (root mean square means the approximate equivalent of Dc)Cec section 16 Extra Low voltage is below 30v…so that leaves 30-750 V Ac to be Low Voltage…And yes I am aware that there is also Medium Voltage but it is not in the CEC…Medium Voltage was 750- 2300V or 5000V or higher depending on who you are talking to….

Oh shit you guys did that on Nicholson Island! Woo The County!

I had to do the same thing for a 1 ton service truck. I used AAA to send a roll back tow truck and it worked exactly the same.

It's not just throttle mapping, you need to add a function that smoths the input to remove jerk, like on an IC wngine if you go from 0%-20% you don't get 20% imedi it takes a second to ramp up

What is the price difference between Pb and LFP battery banks for a system like the one demonstrated on the island. (Value is obtained of course over the lifetime of the system.) Backing up with diesel for the sub10% of days is obviously cost effective, rather than having to double - or greater - the battery banks - even then (without an "extravagant" spend) it wouldn't last through an extended stretch of bad weather - meaning the full sized diesel backup will still be needed even after a 2x spend, something governments and grid operators don't seem willing to admit (we will still need baseload redundancy for "the forseeable future" in grid applications).

@beyondwhatisknown

8 ай бұрын

Lead acid batteeies cost peehaps 1/10 per kwh, but in the long run will cost more because of faster degradation and you never want to discharge below 50%. Lead acid will be useful in -20⁰C without having to heat the building. Llithium is terrible below 5⁰C and stop working below 0⁰C. Wearing out your lead acid batteries justifies the much more expensive but better value lithium batteries later. BreakING up the initial investment into more managable spread out chunks makes the system easier to buy.

So cool 😎👍!

3:39 looking forward to the Mens of Edison Motors Calendar🥵☺️

Would use a battery balancer. Over time one or more batteries will differ and some will overcharge while otters might become undercharged .

So many isolated places would easily save a butt load of money if they simply convert over to solar. Fuel prices are becoming way too high.

Looking forward to the IPO and investing.

0:56 you get her energized @Edisonmotors

I think the remote energy usage is probably one of the better cases for solar power and/or wind. Likely their diesel savings alone will pay off the system, but having the diesel there as a backup is huge. It's still energy dense and will help in the winters. I think the only thing you could do more is find a way to better use the wasted heat from the engines to heat a house or something like that. Likely it will go a long way to keeping the diesel fuel from jelling up in the shed and keep the batteries above freezing.

Rather than "Get 'er fired up" I vote for "Get the current flowing"

8:35 you should look into using a tablet you can root and install a BMS onto for this. If it's staying plugged in all the time, the battery is going to die way sooner than it should, potentially catastrophically. There are already plenty of solutions for android that will limit the charge level to 80% max charge (or custom) for longevity of the hardware. Maybe this device is already supported. This kind of install is going to be unattended enough that if the battery in that tablet swells up and fails, it'll burn down the whole system quite literally. Stay safe and keep up all your amazing work lads I looked into it when i was setting up old phones as remote cameras and found one busted open from the battery.

Interesting product. I have high hopes for your company future. The hybrid model makes sense for a lot of applications. It's the BEV on training wheels.

It’s really weird seeing it move but not make any noise 😂

The fact that you can hear the tires crushing pebbles, and the squeak of the suspension ... and the wind noise is louder? Yeah, its too quiet.

The thumbnail looks a lot like a mini-Artic cruiser 😅😅

Ho Chase; Could you talk about e-axels on trailers. If you have? Where and when?

When deciding to cut footage or nah, ALWAYS keep it in...

Edison motors could make a great dump truck

Cool solar island and cool truck What inverter and charge controller was that?

I'd love to see your take on an OTR rig.

@johnwenzel2003

8 ай бұрын

There is a video of a concept of a 6x6 with a sleeper.

I like all the windows on the truck, now everyone will get to see my womens underwear and heels while i drive.

@charlesball6519

8 ай бұрын

If you wear pants, or a proper length dress, that's not going to happen

I love how excited he is that the diesel generator wasn't eliminated, just like the fossil fuel industry is excited that solar doesn't eliminate coal and natural gas.

@PistonAvatarGuy

8 ай бұрын

Can't see the reply.

DOING IT !

Is there a BMS system on the lead acid batteries in the solar system? I saw they are all in series would be good to know the cells health voltage and balance

I might have missed it in a video but is there power steering? It looks like you have to wrench the wheel pretty hard to get it to turn at low speeds. I know nothing about trucks so sorry if this is a silly question!

as usual great job, love the video, Why didn’t you guys use lithium iron phosphate, batteries like in the truck for the island solar project?.

@-LightningRod-

8 ай бұрын

Cost and availability

@charlesball6519

8 ай бұрын

​@@-LightningRod-they'll probably have to replace those lead acid batteries every 7-10 years, instead of every 15-20 years for LiFePO4 batteries.

@-LightningRod-

8 ай бұрын

@@charlesball6519 Well, ..the matter relies upon type of cell and battery management capabilities. Northern telecom batteries in glass cases were lead acid and were capable of 90++ years. 21stcentury battery chemistries promise even longer when coupled with Monitoring BMS. Often we get confused with battery longevity when we are reminded to BUY a new vehicle battery every 1 - 2 or 3 years for our vehicles because,....,.... actually, ...there is no reason or excuse for us to be BUYING Batteries every year.

@capnkirk5528

8 ай бұрын

@@-LightningRod- You are absolutely correct. ECONOMICS should drive the decisions on battery chemistry (plus safety, but moreso economics). Sodium batteries should be readily available by the end of the decade, then things will change.

@-LightningRod-

8 ай бұрын

@@capnkirk5528 oh fer sure, for land based immobile battery storage, things like flow battery's or any of the other formulations promise lifetimes of service and reliability. Soon , batteries with the power of the Suns for pennies on the dollar will be realized,...I only wish that people like Alberta's premiere , Danielle Smith would move forward into the 21stCentury instead of doubling down on increased Oil and gas pipeline and generation strategies, ..i think the people of Alberta should vote harder Don't forget to VOTE,... VOTE like yer Life depends on it.

Please consider expanding your line up of work trucks. Full size 3/4 and 1 ton trucks and vans. I don't need all the technology, or the $50,000 price tag that comes with buying a work truck or van. I need a licensed, registered, insured, running/driving work truck that can transport 4'x8' sheet goods and has a ladder rack. Manual crank windows, manual locks, steel wheels, etc. Just a good old fashioned bare bones basic work truck/van.

Never mind the Edison, where can I buy that amphibious vehicle? I need one for... Reasons.

That Globe and Mail article has been corrected twice and I could still go through and change a dozen things that don't make sense or just otherwise present here-say as fact. What terrible journalists and editors we have these days

Why did you settle on lead acid batteries? Is the price / KWh the driving factor, or something else like peak current draw?

had a guy in a discord server wanting to go all solar due to his energy bill rates being terrible. he lives pretty far from the city so that's why. but his particular climate just doesn't make solar or wind viable at all. after some back and forths along with some rate and efficiency calculations we firgured out that a small propane generator and a battery system was perfect. he spends a quarter of what he used to for power needs.

New customers??? Sounds promising.

so what if you programmed on a board multiple sensitivity levels for the pedal, so like say you’re on the highway and your pulling the logs to the destination you could have a higher sensitivity level but then with like a button press on the little tablet or whatever you installed on the interior you could then have a low sensitivity pedal where even with the pedal fully pressed you’re going at most 30kmh

I’m from treaty three in northwestern Ontario I know my reserve in north west angle #37 uses American electricity at a huge markup. There islands the man island is windigo island lake of the woods

What you guys are doing is awesome.

Seriously you could do a whole video of just driving the truck around maybe hooking it up to a charging station just to see peoples reactions.

@johnwenzel2003

8 ай бұрын

Just picture Topsy pulling up next to a model 3. The tesla owner would probably faint.

What size battery does this beauty have?

Lead Acid Batteries in it? @6:07 Why not LiFePo4 batteries with 100% DOD?

@MarkRose1337

8 ай бұрын

Lead-acid works better in the cold, so that's probably why

Would still like to see Supercapacitors integrated into the Edison motors system. Either or the truck or the onsite charging infrastructure. Skeleton tech seems like a great fit as they already have systems to integrate into heavyduty vehicles.

@iirokangas3434

8 ай бұрын

Might I ask you why? How would the capacitors improve the vehicle?

@wildtwindad

8 ай бұрын

@@iirokangas3434 they would serve as the primary source for power on the torque curve. Thereby relieving the bulk of the power draw off of the batteries themselves. This would prolong the life of said batteries. Skeletons graphene super capacitors have a life cycle in the tens of thousands, while batteries in the thousands. Also the charge/discharge time is in the seconds so they can also serve as a secondary "fuel" source to be discharged at the top/bottom of the work zone to facilitate better charge times.

@iirokangas3434

8 ай бұрын

@@wildtwindad yeah, idk man. The truck is already 25% more expensive than comparable ICE vehicles. Seems like the ultracaps are way more expensive than Chinese LiFePo battery packs. Also the energy density for Skeleton ultracaps is 6.8Wh/kg compared to ~150Wh/kg for the batteries so replacing the battery (or part of it) would increase the weight of the vehicle. As Chace said in one video, weight saved is money earned for truckers. At this point I think it would make sense to streamline and simplify to make the truck cheaper and easier to manufacture rather than add another system on top of everything. Thoughts?

I'm sure you'll do a video on it, but what exactly do you mean when you say you will next send Topsy away for testing? Who does that, and how?

I wonder if you could make the truck generator be a steam engine and run it with biofuel pellets as a fuel source

what kind of requirements does it take to get a job/internship here

Maybe spark it up?? For your E truck??

Sucks you guys are already having to tune the truck's power down. I was like "Nooooooooo" lol

That is so weird to be able to hear the rattle of the chains, while your driving the truck!

Why not LiFePo4 batteries?

Shoulda had that top button done up to 11. Anybody get a solar island squeezer? I'm here all week.

LOL: the KZread captioning describes the engine compression style retarder brake as: "[Music]". Not entirely wrong I guess.

Okay but how’d you get it on the first trailer to begin with?

@johnwenzel2003

8 ай бұрын

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