Technical Paper
Performance Parity Study of Electrified Class 8 Semi Trucks with Diesel Counterparts
2024-04-09
2024-01-2164
It is recognized that the heavier vehicles, the more emissions, but the harder to electrify. It is clear that long haul trucks belong to the hard-to-electrify vehicle segment, though the automotive industry has gained trending advantages of electrifying both light-duty cars and SUVs. Since big rigs such as Class 8 trucks have significant road-block challenges for electrification due to the demanding long-hour work cycles in all weathers, this study focuses on quantifying those electrifying challenges by taking advantage of the public data of Class 8 tractors & trailers. Tesla Semi is the research target though its vehicle spec data is sorted out with fragment information in the public. The highlight is to analyze the battery capacity requirements due to environmental temperature and inherent aging over the lifespan. The investigation will go to compare the EV Semi performance with diesel counterparts.