Electric truck

An electric trucks, also called electric truck or electric truck, is an electrically powered trucks ( vehicles used for the carriage of goods over 2.8 tonnes GVW ), which draws its power from a battery. In addition, overhead line trucks which are supplied via a catenary with electricity exist.

Electric trucks achieve accelerations are higher than those of most conventional trucks. The acquisition costs are higher than for the diesel variant. For this, the running costs are lower.

History

1906 were from the factory Nuremberg (formerly Brown, 1918 Faun ) produced electrically powered vehicles for local businesses. This had the then very modern wheel hub motors and have been further developed or produced by 20 manufacturers of commercial vehicles up to 1920. The Daimler -Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG ) had called her " Mercedes Electrique " model a light commercial vehicle with wheel hub motors on offer and this type of vehicle could sell well ..

As early as 1905 also provided Siemens & Halske trucks with gasoline -electric drive forth, but the Lastkraftwagenbau after taking over the Protos works in 1908 has been set. In Cologne, Ernst Heinrich built the spirit of his time dynamo-electric commercial vehicles with the title: " Dyna- spirit." Some trucks were built with a hybrid drive, with a 28 -hp four-cylinder engine by Argus generator could produce power for the electric motor. Bussing built in 1908 for the army an electric truck with five followers who were driven by 18 -hp wheel hub motors. The tractor had two 60 hp engines that simultaneously drives the Siemens generator. In Austro-Daimler in Austria in 1911 was presented to the Porsche "B - train ", where the otto- electric drive, was carried out by a 150 -horsepower gasoline engine and 93 kW generators, and the wheel hub motors in the rear wheels were derZugmaschine and in the all-wheel drive five followers who could each carry up to five tons.

Commercial vehicles with electric drives used to be made from a total of 40 companies, including wavy grain, Hagen, BEF, Hentschel, DMG, Hercules, Scheele and Schiemann, which until 1914 - including trolley buses and trolley trucks - a total of 554 electric vehicles were produced. These trucks were produced especially for the communities themselves, such as for fire fighters and garbage. Also known as beer transporter they were to be found.