Electric Truck Charging Station Built

Despite the nay sayers (and I include myself) a truck recharging station is being built at Wilton south of Sydney to cater for large electric trucks on the 900km Sydney to Melbourne route.

Amazingly they are quicker on the route than diesel trucks:

The average highway speed for diesel-powered trucks travelling this route is 85km/h, while the Windrose electric truck managed an average speed of 98km/h, because of its ability to keep speed up hills – much to the surprise of diesel truck drivers who watched it fly past.

Looks like the extra “Slow Vehicle Lane” on hills on the Hume will be a thing of the past.

It was on the radio this morning that it was nearly ready but I can only find this article

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Is it powered by diesel generators Bruce? most of the charging stations around here at service stations are.

As I understand it it will be powered by Solar as well as mains power, hence its location.

Diesel powered recharging stations on the Nullarbor plain use solar and recycled oil from cooking to power their generators.

https://www.techbusinessnews.com.au/news/biofil-ev-fast-charger-on-the-nullarbor-fuelled-by-used-chip-oil/

Old cooking oil is in great demand to turn into diesel fuel. Fast food places used to give it away now they sell it, saves a fortune in fuel excise.

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