Electric Truck Integration: Pure Electric & Fuel Cell

In the transportation sector across the globe, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (such as trucks, buses, and delivery trucks), tend to be especially intense polluters due to their use of diesel, spewing nitrogen oxides and particulate matter. This is the driving force for heavy-duty vehicle manufacturers to continue to invest in electric trucks. Many tools and resources are available to inform and help fleets understand what’s involved in shifting from traditional diesel- and gas-powered trucks to trucks that use alternative electric drivetrains.

• • • • Adopting to e-Truck: CO2 Reduction Driver
      • Future of Propulsion technology: Hydrogen Fuel Cell
      • Electrification of heavy-duty vehicles

• • As per World Bank data on CO2 statistics in India, decreased trend observed from 2019 to 2020 by 7.81% which can be the result of many initiatives towards reducing CO2 emission and one of them is electrification of vehicle across the country i.e. increased sale of electric vehicles in 2019-20 by 16.52%.
  • The regulatory push in the country to reduce emissions is the strong driving force to adopt e-Trucks – Pure electric integration with fuel cell across the logistics and transport sectors, which may reduce global CO2 emissions by 3 to 5%. 
  • Pure electric truck uses energy stored in batteries as a power source which are charged with electricity from the grid. e – Truck integration with fuel cell technology (FCEV) is fuelled with hydrogen which is converted to electricity while the vehicle is being driven. Diesel truck running at 12 kph with 15% of its maximum loaded capacity gives average efficiency of about 20%. On the other hand, the electric drivetrain will have about 80% efficiency with the same load capacity. Together with some brake and wheel energy regeneration and more efficient auxiliary drives, this will lead to five times higher efficiency for the electric drive. Even though the e-Truck range is lower than equivalent ICE truck However, the energy efficiency is significantly higher.

• • The global training program of pManifold’s EV academy on “e-Truck Systems Integration – Pure Electric & Fuel Cell” will enable you to gain a comprehensive understanding of the e-Trucks eco system, fuel cells for heavy duty trucks, electronic integration of fuel cells, sub-systems, and working principles, as well as various terminologies. 

Electronic integration of fuel cells is the promising future of propulsion technology for transport sector. Understanding various types of fuel cells, truck classifications and its specifications is the key to get expertise over electrification of heavy-duty vehicles. The global training program of pManifold’s EV academy on “e-Truck Systems Integration – Pure Electric & Fuel Cell” will enable trainees to do independent design, research, and development work.