WorkHorse Delivery Trucks

BigBarney · Post by **BigBarney** » Fri. Oct. 19, 2018 11:07 am

Here is what the future is in Delivery trucks....Available NOW...

https://workhorse.com/ngen

NGEN-1000

10,001 GVWR
Up to 6,000 lbs. payload
1000 cubic ft. cargo space
All wheel drive
50 MPGe
100 Miles all-electric range
Level 2 (J1772) DC fast charge (CCS)

American Flag All trucks made in the U.S.A.

With service from Ryder Trucks....

Blows the diesels out of the water, now on to production..

They have the market on their own...

BigBarney

Post by **Richard S.** » Fri. Oct. 19, 2018 2:09 pm

BigBarney wrote: ↑
Fri. Oct. 19, 2018 11:07 am
100 Miles all-electric range

Blows the diesels out of the water, now on to production..

I'd have 100 miles on the coal truck by 10PM after the first trip.

coalnewbie · Post by **coalnewbie** » Fri. Oct. 19, 2018 2:29 pm

Very good for inner city delivery (the last mile) and that is about all. I am waiting for an electric manure spreader.

warminmn · Post by **warminmn** » Fri. Oct. 19, 2018 2:57 pm

Yes, could use the manure spreader for all the crap being posted about EV's.

Sunny Boy · Post by **Sunny Boy** » Fri. Oct. 19, 2018 3:31 pm

coalnewbie wrote: ↑
Fri. Oct. 19, 2018 2:29 pm
Very good for inner city delivery (the last mile) and that is about all. I am waiting for an electric manure spreader.

Unless your creeping along in bumper-to-bumper traffic for much of the delivery day. That 100 miles is likely under ideal circumstances. And used commercially daily, what's the range going to be in a year, or two, or three ?

Paul

KLook · Post by **KLook** » Fri. Oct. 19, 2018 5:31 pm

You guys and the details, details.

BB is just trying to save the planet, and make some money on his stock investments...it blows the doors off a diesel.....hmmmm. In a lab, in a vacuum, in a theoretical test analysis, in his mind. Real life is seldom so kind.

Kevin

Post by **CoalJockey** » Fri. Oct. 19, 2018 7:15 pm

100 miles for 3 ton of payload?

That’s really killing it. The local RFD mail carrier here would die laughing at that thing.

I just bought a 6.7 Powerstroke for small deliveries and the lug nuts have more torque than whatever pile of junk you are lusting over while you have coffee this morning... and it runs 19,500 legal for several days on a fill-up.

Keep on Googling

Post by **franco b** » Fri. Oct. 19, 2018 7:59 pm

Years ago Railway Express used electric trucks in NYC. with modern batteries they would be very practical in cities.

Delivering an average of 5000 gallons of heating oil in Queens county in NYC I usually put on less than 50 miles. About 25 stops.

Post by **CoalJockey** » Fri. Oct. 19, 2018 8:03 pm

franco b wrote: ↑
Fri. Oct. 19, 2018 7:59 pm
Years ago Railway Express used electric trucks in NYC. with modern batteries they would be very practical in cities.

Delivering an average of 5000 gallons of heating oil in Queens county in NYC I usually put on less than 50 miles. About 25 stops.

Don’t engage the PTO... you won’t have enough charge to get to the 3rd stop.

Post by **franco b** » Fri. Oct. 19, 2018 8:11 pm

CoalJockey wrote: ↑
Fri. Oct. 19, 2018 8:03 pm
Don’t engage the PTO... you won’t have enough charge to get to the 3rd stop.

That was with a heavy Mack truck, so i don't think a battery would power it very well, but my point was that in cities or suburbs distances are not great, and a light delivery vehicle should work well.

Post by **Rob R.** » Fri. Oct. 19, 2018 8:12 pm

For the right application, I think those electric trucks would be fine.

Where I work we have a tractor trailer that does 5 loads a day, back and forth to a warehouse only a few miles down the road. An electric one would probably work fine.

windyhill4.2 · Post by **windyhill4.2** » Fri. Oct. 19, 2018 8:52 pm

" Blows the diesel out of the water ".....

Seems i still learn something every day.... i was not aware that an electric vehicle would explode with such force when driven into deep water like diesels are so capable of.

Sunny Boy · Post by **Sunny Boy** » Tue. Oct. 23, 2018 9:44 am

Well the trucking industry doesn't seem to agree with you Barney.

Demand for new trucks is at record highs and they're building lots of them as fast as they can - 477,000 in the past 12 months. But, they don't seem to be much interest in your claimed "future" of EV trucks.

https://www.trucks.com/2018/09/07/orders-new-heav ... rd-august/

Maybe someday you'll have a prediction that will come true. You know what they say about blind squirrels,.....

Paul

coalnewbie · Post by **coalnewbie** » Tue. Oct. 23, 2018 10:14 am

Maybe someday you'll have a prediction that will come true.

Hey BB you need a credibility lift, so here is a prediction that you can bank on.

I will have to lay up my Bolt for 5 months again this year and get out my beater car that I hide from the board.

Sunny Boy · Post by **Sunny Boy** » Tue. Oct. 23, 2018 11:19 am

And that horsefly drone thing is a cute idea, except, I don't think the engineers lived where it's windy, raining, or snowing. You know, like it happens a lot here in the North East downwind of the Great Lakes. And, also in upper West Coast. And in the time it took to program and launch that drone to leave the package in the driveway then have it find and recover back into the truck, my UPS driver could have made tree drop-offs at farms like that and put the packages on the porch out of the weather, like the very expensive new carburetor that was waiting for me when we got home yesterday.

And as for UPS electric trucks,.... well it just so happens I drove the route to Oneonta and back to do some shopping yesterday. It's 37 miles one-way from the Oneonta UPS hub to this delivery area, up and down some long steep hills. So there goes that 100 mile charge without even making one delivery.

So much for making ICE engines obsolete.

Paul