{"id":3157,"date":"2021-07-15T17:11:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T17:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/study-electric-truck-could-deliver-electricity\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:44:07","slug":"study-electric-truck-could-deliver-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/study-electric-truck-could-deliver-electricity\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Electric Truck Could Deliver Electricity?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Electric trucks in the future may not just deliver freight, but surplus electricity to customers, reports Today\u2019s Trucking.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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That\u2019s the thesis behind a theoretical study by the University of Windsor. Environmental engineering professor Rupp Carriveau says it\u2019s conceivable that semi-truck batteries will have surplus energy after doing their runs and will be able to boost operator profits by selling off those extra \u201celectrons.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The professor has hooked up with South Essex Fabricating and Nature Fresh Farms, a Leamington, Ont., company specializing in \u201call things greenhouses\u201d \u2013 from fabricating and selling, to owning large scale greenhouse properties in southern Ontario, Ohio and Mexico.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The affiliated firms will supply trucking information from their myriad North American routes as data for the study. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Carriveau, director of the Environmental Energy Institute, and Professor Hanna Maoh with the Joyce Entrepreneurial Innovation Centre of University of Windsor\u2019s Cross-Border Institute, are conducting the $160,000 study to both map the most common haul routes and where commercial charging stations could eventually be placed, as well as looking at the potential to offload excess battery energy as a secondary operator revenue stream.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not trying to make any predictions,\u201d Carriveau said. \u201cWhat we\u2019re trying to do is generate scenarios based on the knowledge that we have today of what these trucks may be capable of.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Using the Tesla Semi as a benchmark and the data gleaned from his private sector partner\u2019s hauling operations, Carriveau\u2019s team will come up with scenarios for the kind of energy required to complete routes and the possibility of generating surplus energy available for offloading or \u201cback feeds.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt may be another source of commerce for the trucking agent,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The study\u2019s first phase is to determine where a \u201csufficiently represented population of trucks go across Ontario,\u201d the professor said. This will probably be boiled down to about seven routes. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty clear Hwy. 401 is going to be a major one, the 403, etc.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The second phase concerns what\u2019s known as the \u201cinternet of things\u201d where physical objects are connected through sensors and software to exchange data.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPeople in warehouses or transportation hubs may be able to see where these trucks are going and see what their state of charge is,\u201d he said. That warehouse or factory, for example, may have a last-minute production run and need a short boost of energy.\u00a0<\/span>\u201cThe trucks should be rolling all the time and they should be loaded all the time,\u201d Carriveau said. \u201cBut they\u2019re not always loaded and again it\u2019s this new marketplace for electrons.\u201d<\/p>\n

Full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Electric trucks in the future may not just deliver freight, but surplus electricity to customers, reports Today\u2019s Trucking. That\u2019s the thesis behind a theoretical study by the University of Windsor….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,252,54],"tags":[1930,586,59,422,1931],"class_list":["post-3157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment-fuel","category-infrastructure","category-technology-equipment","tag-charging-stations","tag-electric-trucks","tag-highways","tag-study","tag-university-of-windsor"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}