{"id":522496,"date":"2010-04-09T14:56:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T18:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.greenlaunches.com,2010:\/\/19.54931"},"modified":"2010-04-09T14:58:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T18:58:37","slug":"electrically-powered-truck-can-haul-thousands-of-pounds-of-freight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/522496","title":{"rendered":"Electrically powered truck can haul thousands of pounds of freight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenlaunches.com\/balqon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"balqon.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenlaunches.com\/balqon-thumb-450x321.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"321\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\"\/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nAt the mention of an electric vehicle, the only picture that comes to mind is of a compact 2-4 seater vehicle. However, the Port of Los Angeles has recently put into service world\u2019s first all-electric truck, the Balqon XE20. Powered by lithium-ion batteries, the Balqon XE20 can cover a distance of 50 miles on a complete charge. It takes 6-8 hours to charge completely. It also has a quick charge facility which charges the Li-ion batteries up to 60% in an hour. The locally built XE20 can carry a staggering 60,000lbs of freight, which is equal to a fully loaded 40-feet container.<\/p>\n<p>These freight trucks make more than 1.2 million trips between the Port of LA and a local railyard. If the all-electric XE20s were to be used for this purpose, it could eliminate around 35,000 tonnes of tailpipe emissions. The XE20 is a great way to conserver the environment while saving on fuel costs. <br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/autopia\/2010\/04\/electric-truck-can-haul-a-trailer-of-teslas\/\">wired<\/a>]    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the mention of an electric vehicle, the only picture that comes to mind is of a compact 2-4 seater vehicle. However, the Port of Los Angeles has recently put into service world\u2019s first all-electric truck, the Balqon XE20. Powered by lithium-ion batteries, the Balqon XE20 can cover a distance of 50 miles on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}