“We found that they could not plow the snow effectively – they basically conked out after four hours. We need them to go 12 hours”
New York’s sanitation department wants all 6,000 vehicles electric by 2040. The electric trucks it tested died after four hours of plowing, and a plow shift runs 12. Seven new Mack rear loaders cost more than $523,000 each and won’t plow at all. The department has 13 DC fast chargers for the whole fleet.