An electric vehicle start-up aims to switch the country’s 100,000 articulated, semi-trailer and B-double trucks onto a renewable electric platform. simonjohanson
An electric vehicle start-up is converting semi-trailer trucks into electric heavy-haulers that will be powered by a quick-change battery network on Australia’s east coast.
Dooley said Janus intended to fund the network rollout by selling capital in the business to raise $100 million from energy-conscious investors within the next 12 months. Both companies are partnering with Janus to fit out the country’s heaviest road-going electric vehicle, a super quad road train, which will be powered by renewable energy battery stations at each end of the route.
The mining company, under pressure from investors like many of its peers to progressively decarbonise its operations, said the trial is a step towards reducing emissions across its value chain.Dooley maintains the cost of converting an existing truck is the same as a diesel vehicle. “Rather than essentially setting your truck up to be a diesel again, we encourage people to change it over to electric,” he said. “We can pretty much convert any bonneted truck and about 80 per cent of cab-over trucks to the Janus system.”
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