Implemention of electrical trucks

[M95]

Vehicle development keeps going on.

something you see coming up is electrical driving, also in the truck branch. Since SCS has based ETS2 on diesel-based motor it would be nice to add electrical trucks to the game. Some things you need are:

- Electrical physics in the truck
- Different engine sounds
- Different loading stations (can be wider applied, also on parking lots with no gas station for example).

[Wolfi]

There are no long-range fully Electric trucks.
Also, there are no long-range hybrid trucks available yet.
Come back with your idea in about 10-15 years

[piva]

Already done
viewtopic.php?f=207&t=228501

[Max]

few weeks ago i tested electrical truck powertrain mod in game just for myself (and loutis). it was based on tesla and nicola one engines and transmission parameters. worked nicely ..

[TwinShadow]

But does it still use the normal fuel methods? =P

Since electric vehicles require their own power stations in order to gain "fuel" in its power cells. Course, the lack of any of them in my area is why I can't consider an electric vehicle.

[Max]

well, yes. i tested just the mechanics and physical simulation.
consumption and refueling used standard way - which brought me to interesting discovery about power input of electric engines. they are quite hungry which kind of explains why there is issue with battery so far ...

the hungry aspect of electrical engines is that they can easily have maxed power output (combustion engines have only narrow area with that output) and you can use it all the time during any acceleration. and with maxed output they have maxed power input.

well, another story is energy storage, ofc:
diesel has like 1kWh per 200g. so its around 4kWh per liter, which is like 4MWh in 1000liter (average tank). it weights cca 750kg and the tank may have the same. so 1.5t for 4MWh
for comparison tesla battery can store 85kWh in 544kg of batteries (model s) so in same 1.5t you can put like 250kWh only = 16x less than diesel !!
computations are rough and number taken out of the top of my head so it may differ a bit, but not by an order or so ..

[Trident R.S.]

.......... and the tank may have the same.........

Highly doubt.
An aluminium tank is very light.
I think less than 200 kg with brakets.

[xXCARL1992Xx]

a 700L tank should wight roughly 70kg without brakets if the tank has a wall thickness of 5mm

[HerpyDerpy22]

@Trident and @Carl, don't forget to add the weight of the fuel to the weight of the fuel tank

[xXCARL1992Xx]

we referred to the tank only because Max mentioned that the diesel wights 750kg and the tank the same so our posts are right

but 700L diesel wights roughly 574 to 602kg if you want to add it and 1000l of diesel weight 820 to 860kg (0.82 to 0.86kg/l for diesel)