Bison electric truck
It looks like a Canadian mfg Havelaar has plans to build a electric truck called the Bison.
Forum Discussion
pianotuna wrote:
When it is fully loaded it's rated to go up a 21 percent grade. Show me a gasser or a diesel that will do that?
21 percent actually is not much of a grade. I used to have a house with a 22 percent driveway, and my E450 motorhome pulled it easily with a toad in tow. Seattle and Tacoma have city streets that are 25 percent. A truck that could only pull a 21 percent loaded would be pretty useless. By comparison, I did a little bit of research and found the gradeability specs for an Isuzu NPR, a small commercial truck intended for city use. It's rated to pull a 39 percent grade at GVWR. Other commercial trucks are generally specced to be able to pull grades at least that steep in low gear.
And thank you, pianotuna for pointing out in another post that using the 'percent' symbol will cause posting problems. Guess that happens when 20 year old technology is used on a web forum. ;)
