With the take-up of electric vehicles across Australia commercial market considered "pretty modest" so far, those supporting an EV garbage truck trial in Shepparton believe its important to start chipping away towards a transition.
Yeah, there’s been a few cases of the compactors in rubbish trucks causing fires after crushing things that people shouldn’t be putting in their landfill bin, ie car batteries, old phones, etc). As soon as the fire is noticed, the trucks generally dump their load onto the road, nature strip, really whatever is available. Obviously the trucks batteries wouldn’t be crushed by the compactor, but my concern is mostly whether an EV truck would cause a nastier fire/explosions than a diesel one in the event of a fire somehow going unnoticed, or hell, even if someone broke into a truck depot and torched one (crazier things have happened…)
Yeah that was what I was thinking.
Yeah, there’s been a few cases of the compactors in rubbish trucks causing fires after crushing things that people shouldn’t be putting in their landfill bin, ie car batteries, old phones, etc). As soon as the fire is noticed, the trucks generally dump their load onto the road, nature strip, really whatever is available. Obviously the trucks batteries wouldn’t be crushed by the compactor, but my concern is mostly whether an EV truck would cause a nastier fire/explosions than a diesel one in the event of a fire somehow going unnoticed, or hell, even if someone broke into a truck depot and torched one (crazier things have happened…)