Content by wattmatters in April, 2026

BHP/Bluescope is trialling an electric semi for a regular known steel product run from Wollongong. And there's a another company doing a Sydney-Canberra delivery between two warehouses. Delivers boxes of dunny paper. For known and controlled delivery environments it can work. But we are long...

A Windrose truck has a 729 kWh battery. No trucker is going to wait for hours to refill enroute at a regular EV DC charge station. And what happens to the trucks waiting in line? Stops that can coincide with a scheduled break make sense (as they do for the rest of us) but the charge rate will...

It's a forestry truck, don't know if a Windrose is built for that sort of duty. The truck they used ended up with an effective 200 km range. That's just not going to cut it. A truck sitting there not moving its load or unable to deliver is losing money. As to charging, we simply don't have the...

It's not as simple as that. I wish it were but there are still significant cost barriers that operators of diesel fleets don't have, namely the cost of (re)fuelling infrastructure. For electric to make sense it requires a dense network of charging infrastructure suitable for trucks so that they...

It's a normalised range estimate, not an actual achieved range. So if the driving at that time had very good economy then the normalised 100% SOC range would correspondingly go up. If we have a period with nothing much other than slow driving on our local roads (with 40-80 km/h speed limits)...