Electric truck

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Depot charging

Charging a fleet of buses or trucks at the depot, usually overnight at 50–150 kW per vehicle, which keeps cell stress low and lets an energy-management system sequence the chargers against the site’s grid connection.

Electric bus

A battery-electric city or coach bus, with packs of 300–700 kWh on the roof and at the rear, LFP or NMC, charged overnight in the depot or at the terminus by pantograph. Its duty cycle — long hours, deep daily cycles, a twelve-year life — makes battery aging the central engineering question.

Electric light commercial vehicle

A battery-electric van or pickup of up to 3.5 tonnes gross weight, category N1 in Europe, used for parcel delivery and trades. Packs of about 50–110 kWh suit predictable urban routes and overnight depot charging, but payload is tight: every kilogram of battery is a kilogram less of goods.

LFP

A positive electrode material, LiFePO₄, giving cells a nominal voltage around 3.2 V, long cycle life and good thermal stability, but less energy per kilogram than nickel-rich oxides. Its flat voltage curve makes state of charge hard to read from voltage alone.

Megawatt Charging System

The connector and protocol standard for charging heavy trucks and coaches at up to 3.75 MW — up to 3000 A at 1250 V — so a long-haul truck can recharge during a driver’s mandatory break. It uses ISO 15118 communication over Ethernet rather than power-line signalling.

Total cost of ownership

Purchase price plus energy, maintenance and residual value over a vehicle’s or system’s life. For buses and trucks it is the figure that decides the case for batteries, because fuel and maintenance savings repay the higher purchase price.

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1. DOE/EPRI 2013 Electricity Storage Handbook in Collaboration with NRECA

   Sandia National Laboratories · 2013

   Topic background · Storage technologies and grid services. The publisher notes that its historical cost and deployment figures are outdated.