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  • Heavy truck costs: diesel, gas, electric or hydrogen?

    Heavy truck costs: diesel, gas, electric or hydrogen?

    Heavy truck costs are estimated at $0.14 per ton-kilometer, for a truck typically carrying 15 tons of load and traversing over 150,000 miles per annum. Today these trucks consume 10Mbpd of diesel and their costs absorb 4% of post-tax incomes. Electric trucks would be 20-50% most costly, and hydrogen trucks would be 45-75% more, which…

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  • eHighway economics: costs of electrifying heavy trucks?

    eHighway economics: costs of electrifying heavy trucks?

    eHighways present an opportunity to electrify heavy trucking, by conveying medium voltage power via overhead steel catenary lines, through a pantograph, to an electric or hybrid-electric truck. This data-file captures the economics of eHighways, covering capex costs, returns and sensitivities, both for road operators and truck operators. The CO2 intensity of trucking can be reduced…

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  • Mine trucks: transport economics?

    Mine trucks: transport economics?

    There are around 50,000 giant mining trucks in operation globally. The largest examples are 15m long, 10m wide, 8m high, can carry around 350-450 tons and reach top speeds of 40mph. This data-file captures the economics, costs and inflationary impacts of decarbonization.

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  • Electric trucks: what battery sizes?

    Electric trucks: what battery sizes?

    An electric truck would need a 15 ton battery to match the c2,500-mile range of a diesel truck. However, larger batteries above c8-tons detract 10% from fuel economy and may cause trucks to exceed regulatory weight limits, lowering their payload capacities. 4-6 ton batteries with 700-1,000km ranges are optimal.

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  • eHighways: trucking by wire?

    eHighways: trucking by wire?

    eHighways electrify heavy trucks via overhead catenary wires. They have been de-risked by half-a-dozen real-world pilots. High-utilization routes can support 10% IRRs on both road infrastructure and hybrid trucks. This 15-page report finds benefits in logistics networks and for integrating renewables?

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  • Autonomous mining trucks: case studies?

    Autonomous mining trucks: case studies?

    Autonomous mining trucks have been gaining share since 2010, and now number almost 2,000 in total, across dozens of mines globally. So this data-file presents some case studies of autonomous mining trucks, and provides yet another example of digital progress. The work also shows leading companies in autonomous mining trucks, among adopters and mining equipment…

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  • Maintenance costs for gas-powered trucks?

    Maintenance costs for gas-powered trucks?

    Maintenance costs are tabulated by category, for a fleet of compressed natural gas (CNG) trucks, travelling 16M miles across the United States.

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  • Energy storage: top conclusions into batteries?

    Energy storage: top conclusions into batteries?

    Thunder Said Energy is a research firm focused on economic opportunities that can drive the energy transition. Our top ten conclusions into batteries and energy storage are summarized below, looking across all of our research.

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  • Hydrogen: overview and conclusions?

    Hydrogen: overview and conclusions?

    We think the best opportunities in hydrogen will be to decarbonize gas at source via blue and turquoise hydrogen, displacing ‘black hydrogen’ that currently comes from coal, and to produce small-scale feedstock on site via electrolysis for select industries. Others see green hydrogen as a cornerstone of the future energy system. We think there may…

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  • Vehicles: energy transition conclusions?

    Vehicles: energy transition conclusions?

    Vehicles transport people and freight around the world, explaining 70% of global oil demand, 30% of global energy use, 20% of global CO2e emissions. This overview summarizes all of our research into vehicles, and key conclusions for the energy transition.

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