EPA Administrator Michael Regan exclaimed during a recent test drive of a Mack electric refuse vehicle, per a video shared on Twitter last week. is owned by a partnership of private investors.“I’ve done a lot of things but never driven an electric garbage truck,” U.S. We maintain a strict separation between news content and advertising. This is a service that acts as a form of advertising but does not influence 's recommendations. Articles in the Adventure and Research verticals sometimes include affiliate links to help readers purchase gear.

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North Carolina-based Mack doesn’t have the electric truck in its current product lineup and said it has no plans to actively market the truck until all testing is been completed. New and Used Garbage Trucks for Sale at – Let our experts find your perfect truck Wrightspeed uses a diesel turbine range extender to generate power for a relatively small battery pack while the others use battery-dependent systems with very large battery packs. Wrightspeed and Motiv are retrofitters, installing their electric drive systems in customers’ trucks BYD builds its own trucks based on chassis shipped here from its parent in China.Īdditionally, Mack Trucks, a unit of Sweden’s Volvo Group and a major Peterbilt competitor, displayed a prototype Class 8 Mack electric garbage truck at the 2016 WasteExpo. All three are based in California, Motiv and Wrightspeed in the Bay Area, BYD in the high desert northeast of Los Angeles. Others already actively marketing electric refuse trucks include Motiv Power Systems, Wrightspeed Inc., and BYD. truck maker to market an all-electric trash truck – but it would not be without competition in what has been estimated as a $10 billion-a-year global market. If it moves into production with the truck, Texas-based Peterbilt would be the first major U.S. Electric drive systems also can significantly increase fuel efficiency, a priority for most fleet operators.

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