eTRUCK - Electric truck innovation platform operating in daily use in Finland

摘要

Electrification of trucks will enable low noise and low emission delivery and collection of freight in population centers and city areas. Nevertheless, in all cases electric trucks must fulfill the reliability and performance demands arising from logistics operations and wider from commercial needs. The eTRUCK project collects experiences from 16 ton electric delivery truck technologies and their real-life operation capabilities in northern circumstances in Finland. The project is carried out by Tampere University of Applied Sciences together with public-privet partners like municipalities, line operators, technology companies and research institute. The eTRUCK project is financed by European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The eTRUCK has been operating since autumn 2015 in harsh climate conditions from commercial bases at Tampere region. The eTRUCK has been equipped with present-day monitoring and communication instrumentation enabling to remote follow-up of its operations like: location, operation phase, speed, electric parameters, energy consumption and charging. The data collected will be compared to those produced with computational tools in order to have accurate enough match between measured real-life data and calculations. In future the computational tools will support route and operation planning, charging and driving cycle optimization for electrical delivery trucks in demanding operational and environmental conditions. The project will establish a truck operation database which can be used in future as a comparison reference for other type and size of trucks. The task is to enable more accurate estimations and planning of electric truck operations. At a later stage the results accumulated from the eTRUCK experiences will be analyzed from energy consumption, emission and economical perspective.