Electric waste collection trucks begin hitting Comox Valley streets
The days of hearing the waste collection truck rolling down the road and rushing to put out your bins are numbered.
The trucks are indeed much quieter than their diesel alternatives. After air brakes are let off they begin rolling without any noise. They use a 376 kWh battery , giving them 113 km of range. With the high capacity charging stations at the Emterra facility, the trucks can be fully charged within 90 minutes. The trucks also have three regenerative braking modes: high, low and automatic.
"You've got to be willing to put up that upfront cost," she said."These are moving houses. It takes a customer who is willing to do this. If a customer just wants the standard metrics of what they're looking for when they're doing procurement, this will never happen." To mitigate the draw to the grid and to Emterra's own operation, the trucks will be charged overnight. The charging facility will include six 150-kW chargers that are mounted to a metal skid, giving Emterra the ability to do maintenance and upgrades without demolishing a concrete base, which many similar electric vehicle chargers use. The set up also makes them ready for future technologies like hydrogen batteries and other technology that is in development.
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