What do we know about the technical specifications of the included vehicles? It is very difficult to get relevant parameters for the electric truck and it is a shame because that makes the comparison lame.
Electric Truck VNR 6x2 tractor USA
We have taken the data from the American market:
Truck with trailer has a permissible gross train weight of 80,000 lbs, which corresponds to approximately 37.2 tons.
Gross vehicle weight of the truck tractor 16.5 tons or more.
Trailer has a net weight of approximately 4 tons.
Remaining payload 37.2 - 16.5 -4 = 12.7 tons.
Range 440 km.
Charging 60 minutes to 80% of battery capacity.
Railway, container wagon
A container wagon has the capacity as below:
Sdggmrss (TWIN) is a connected wagon with space for 2 40 ft containers Dead weight 35 tons for the comparison 1/2 wagon To be compared 17.5 tons per half unit
Dead weight for a 40 ft container 3,800 kg Load capacity:
fully loaded 40 ft container 30,480 Kg Payload capacity 26.68 tons
Range unlimited No loading required
Without doing an in-depth analysis, a simple comparison can show the difference in design and transport capacities.
Transport volume 300 tons From Malmö to Stockholm, distance for simplicity the same 615 km
Design speed 80 km/h for both modes of transport
Number of vehicles to move the load 300/12.7 = 23.6 i.e. 24 vehicles. Number of drivers for the vehicles 24 Time to carry out the transport. It may be divided into two interval distances 440 km and 175 km.
The first distance 5.5 hours. Rest break 1 hour for charging.
The next distance takes 2.2 hours. The total will be 5.5 + 1 + 2.2 = 8.7 hours.
This probably exceeds the time that the driver can be available, which is why you may have to change the driver for the last distance 24 more times, which makes the number of drivers a total of 48.
Number of 40 ft containers to move the load 11.2 i.e. 12 containers. Receives plastic on 6 Sdggmrss (TWIN) railway wagons.
Number of drivers, 1 locomotive driver.
Time for carrying out the transport 7.7 hours.
Just with this simple overview calculation, it can be concluded that all goods should be transported by rail. Nothing else is relevant if we are to take care of the environment and also reduce energy costs. If we add to the calculations that it is 30 - 40 times more expensive to move things by road if we only consider energy costs. If we then add investment costs for the respective vehicles, it becomes even more obvious. Truck transport has reached the end of the road and only belongs in shorter distribution operations.
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