This ZeroTruck Battery Electric Medium-Duty Truck Demonstration final project report describes the planning, business development and technology development work to introduce new zero-emissions technologies to the marketplace, gather operational data to understand the value proposition, and demonstrate vehicles to gain consumer acceptance and accelerate acquisitions of new zero-emission vehicles.
The goals of the agreement were to demonstrate: 1) The ability of battery electric medium-duty trucks to match or surpass the performance of conventional diesel and natural gas vehicles (under similar defined duty cycles); 2) The ability to charge the vehicle batteries without interruption of the vehicle’s use requirements; and 3) Develop quantifiable environmental and economic benefits, based on actual in-use data.
A series of barriers (technical and safety) suffered by vehicle manufacturer, ZeroTruck, resulted in damage to vehicles under construction. The extreme setback coupled with a lack of ZeroTruck internal controls and misreporting lead to a cascading failure of vehicle build and delivery preventing project completion and data collection.
