Chicago selects electric garbage trucks over natural gas

  • Chicago selects electric garbage trucks over natural gas

    The city of Chicago has selected a new fleet of garbage trucks to be electric vehicles rather than hybrids or compressed natural gas vehicles. The award is based on research using a city bus with the same technology from Motiv Power Systems, the contract award winner based out of the San Francisco Bay Area. Conclusions from the research are that operations costs will be reduced by 50% over an eight year period.

    The range of these trucks will be 60 miles.

    From a fuel price management perspective, this award won’t cause even a ripple in the fuel volume market, but it is one more data point showing how overall fuel demand is likely to decrease as municipalities and other government fleet vehicles start using alternative fuels besides gasoline and diesel.

    The article announcing the award may be find here.

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