“Leading the way for cleaner fleets in California, the City of Sacramento will soon be home to the State’s first all-electric automated left-side loader garbage truck. The fundamental technology powering the Electric Refuse Vehicle (ERV) is Motiv Power Systems‘ scalable and modular All-Electric Powertrain. The Class-8 vehicle will be built on a Crane Carrier chassis, and the body will be built by Loadmaster. The City of Sacramento aims to run the ERV on residential and recycling routes and expects to save as much as 6,000 gallons of fuel per year.” “Sacramento specified that this ERV must meet the demanding requirements placed on all of its garbage trucks. This includes three routes per day to remove trash, recycling and green waste in a downtown Sacramento neighborhood. To supply enough electricity to move the truck and power the hydraulics all day, the ERV is equipped with 10 battery packs, expandable to 12 packs if needed for future route expansion. Using the Motiv Universal high power Charger, the ERV batteries will easily reach full charge overnight.” California Puts Its First Electric Garbage Truck Into Operation | Inside EVs
pretty sweet! all we get is diesel rubbish trucks, delivery trucks busses. can hardly breathe around here.
Can someone describe how a left-side loader works? Does the truck drive on the left side of streets to pick up containers? We have a combination of right-side and rear loaders which to me makes more sense.
All of our garbage trucks in OKC are based on CNG. Each one has ~10 large CHG tanks right behind the cab. Yes, these are the big hydraulic "right" side lift for 90 gallon bin type.
Hope it's a quiet truck. Noise pollution is a problem for trash trucks as many towns (including mine) allow 24/7 trash puck-up, so we have the awful clanging at all hours. It's the businesses, stores etc (not homes) that allow 24/7 pick-up here. So if live in earshot, that's the problem.
