{"id":147896,"date":"2021-12-13T13:06:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T12:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emobility-engineering.com\/?p=6526"},"modified":"2021-12-13T13:06:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T12:06:16","slug":"project-tests-electric-truck-for-work-in-the-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/project-tests-electric-truck-for-work-in-the-arctic\/","title":{"rendered":"Project tests electric truck for work in the Arctic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/news.evearly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/project-tests-electric-truck-for-work-in-the-arctic.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6528\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" \/><br \/>Operating EVs in extreme temperatures is a demanding exercise, as lithium-ion batteries generally work best between 15 and 35 C, so a four-week trial conducted throughout February 2021 above the Arctic Circle in Sweden was a severe test of a truck and its charging infrastructure (writes Peter Donaldson).<br \/>\nIn the test, the battery-powered truck carried loads of 14 t of iron ore sludge over a 280 km round trip in temperatures down to -32 C, says Adam Holmer of power-as-a-service provider Vattenfall.<br \/>\nThe trial was a cooperative effort between Vattenfall, Volvo Trucks and dealer Wist Last och Buss, charger manufacturer ABB and mining company Kaunis Iron. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emobility-engineering.com\/project-tests-electric-truck-for-work-in-the-arctic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/project-tests-electric-truck-for-work-in-the-arctic\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-mobility-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}