Electric trucks

[Tinbum]

The other day we had a lorry going down the road blowing its horn at 5am. It was still doing it a mile further down the road when it went past our neibours.

[Mr Gus]

One can only imagine what sort of night time experience in your locals led to that.

[Ken]

To me most of the noise i hear from traffic is tyres and that is only getting worse with heavier vehicles and bigger tyres. With lorries i guess their weight/tyres will stay the same so the quieter EVs should help, but they only account for a few % of traffic and that must be mainly on motorways etc.

[Tinbum]

A couple of years ago they surface dressed the road outside our house but as part of it they had to lift the cats eyes so they now protrude ready for the next surface dressing. It's amazing how many vehicles drive on them and you hear loud THUMP THUMP THUMPs as they go past. The worst are lorries and caravans. We also have certain lorries that go past that shake the whole house.

[Mr Gus]

To make it worse "speed control humps" ...we grounded the tesla on a new one on the new local estate in our village, anyone who has them place outside their house has to endure "too much S*** " & ought get recompense for the nights woken up by late night thumping traffic & early starts.

It's noise pollution of a different form that council departments are reluctant to entertain (due to costly work getting them stuck there in the first instance)

So combine speed bumps & a lorry (especially an empty open top grain carrier type thing) & the sound is very considerable.

[Stinsy]

To make it worse "speed control humps" ...we grounded the tesla on a new one on the new local estate in our village, anyone who has them place outside their house has to endure "too much S*** " & ought get recompense for the nights woken up by late night thumping traffic & early starts.

It's noise pollution of a different form that council departments are reluctant to entertain (due to costly work getting them stuck there in the first instance)

So combine speed bumps & a lorry (especially an empty open top grain carrier type thing) & the sound is very considerable.

Speed humps not only produce noise pollution they also produce localised particulate and NOx pollution as vehicles slow down and accelerate away from each hump.

[Mart]

Article on a small study/survey of BEV trucks in the US, which seems extremely positive.

Electric Trucks Make Sense — We Now Have Data To Prove It

As companies around the country start electrifying their fleets, the North American Council on Freight Efficiency (NACFE) and RMI wanted to find out the challenges and opportunities they face. To do this, NACFE followed 13 electric trucks from the United States and Canada on their regular routes for three weeks, collecting metrics and stories from the road.

The event, called Run on Less – Electric, proved that certain trucking segments are more than ready to go electric. And when they do, we could save 100 million tons of CO2—equivalent to eliminating 25 coal-fired power plants.

Michael Berube, the US deputy assistant secretary for sustainable transportation, emphasized that just a few years ago people thought we would never be able to electrify trucks. “But the reality as you guys have shown is that today there are some parts of the market that are ready.” He emphasized that 50 percent of all freight in the United States moves 100 miles or less, and 75 percent moves 250 miles or less, meaning a large portion of freight can be moved by electric trucks.