Thanks again for coming out and taking this for a spin! It was a lot of fun. 😁 Little Jerry would be proud of your superior garbage picking up skills! 😁
@@wilfriedklaebe the supreme court didn't ban anything. Derrrrrp. It decided that certain things aren't under the control of the federal government and let the states decide what their citizens want. I think half of the problems of this country would be alleviated by having citizens that actually read more than the headline from the MSM. The other half of the problems would be fixed by fining the MSM companies that lie. When you have derpy people that just read a Facebook post or listen to do other rock biter on a TikTok video, and don't know the whole story, you breed more dumb people.
For everyone saying "no recycling?" They have a completely separate area and building for all recyclable materials. The person who drives this particular truck daily I know personally. He runs one route of "trash" and two loads of "recycle" a day. They take one route to one building/ area and the other goes to another building/ area. Ace has been one of the best family owned companies in the US and are making incredible leaps and bounds for the future of waste collection and disposal.
10:07 The motor having its own drive shaft is probably so they can use the same hydraulic pump as a diesel powered garbage truck instead of designing a new one. On a regular garbage truck, you’d find that same pump running off a second drive shaft from the transmission.
That actually makes a ton of sense with the "PTO" (power take off) button. Just like a tractor, you can either drive or use hydraulics, but not both at once
One system for both power types is fine. But it has to be robust enough to withstand the always maximum availble torque of the electric one. Can't cheap out the design just because diesel power fluctuates and less than maximum is provided at times.
As a supervisor for a trash company on the east side this was cool to see. And also makes me appreciate my drivers more seeing them grab the cans faster lol. For us though an electric truck with that type of range is not practical as most our routes consist of anywhere between 1000 and 1500 homes and because of the area you are covering more then 100 miles a day.
60 miles of pickups with frequent stops or 200 miles in a straight line. Where I live the routes themselves are 20-25 miles which would use under 40% of the battery leaving 60% of the battery left for getting to the routes and too and from the landfill (up to 120 miles). Tipping would require a few KG of battery too. Doable where I live but I'd be getting some serious range anxiety.
@@thomasreese2816 apparently truck is 10 tons empty, and you want to add more batteries(weight) on it, and then you're probably a person who would complain about how all the roads need fixing because there are holes everywhere from heavy trucks
You have to wonder when they are going to add a road tax on electricity used for driving on the roads. As more switch over they are going to have to start picking up the lose from fuel sales. But then we are going to have to shut down our homes to have the power to charge this stuff at night some years down the road
Makes sense for a vehicle like that, when it doesn't drive that far of a distance every day, just start and stop over and over so it can get a lot done with the range it has. And the torque that the electric motor gives it's so well fitted for this.
I do this for a living, he said 60 miles range with 600 pick ups that's horrible I do minimum 1000 houses a day and most have 2 cans. So that's probably 400 stops realistically, then we factor In cold weather probably even lower aaaannnd you have to drive to the route then to the landfill/recycling center this things a joke
jerry is a true lover of power, machinery and mechanics...this video again proves it correct... I just love his enthusiasm towards now tech giants... looking forward to your new hummer EV final look bro...!!!!
Garbage trucks always seemed like the perfect candidate for electrification. They have frequent stop/starts, load in residential areas at antisocial times where noise is an issue, operate in large depots which could easily fit a charging station and once their shift is over they sit around doing nothing leaving plenty of time to charge. I was thinking a top loader was a strange choice considering the energy limitations (I may be biased too because they're pretty rare where I live) but doing the math lifting the trash would only require a few kg or extra battery to perform this work.
> plenty of time to charge With a 350kWh pack, that'd require some fairly hefty charging to fill it overnight. If you wanted to use an AC feed, you'd need a 148A charger to fill that battery in 10 hours. You could maybe depend on having 15 hours a day of charge time, which would drop that to ~100 A, which is pretty doable. But I wonder if they just use a custom, low-power DC "slow charger"? When you've got 10 hours to charge, you'd only need 35kW... per truck. Though that's actually quite a lot, now that I think about it.
@@ryanhack5 Those are still fossil fuels that emit CO2. We have to stop emitting CO2 as quickly as possible. Might be worthwhile as a stopgap until we can fully electrify the entire fleet, though.
@@coredumperror you're telling me, you'd rather use batteries that ruin the Earth worse than LNG or CNG or hydrogen? You do realize you could never ever remove or lower CO2. You going to just stop volcanoes above land and under water? Lol just stop now. Trees would be dead and most of all your drinks and food use CO2. Come work in the cryogenic field sometime. You might learn a few things about the periodic table.
@@coredumperror IF they empty the battery every day down to 0 %, then it is correct: 148A at 236V yes, BUT they have 400 V industrial AC circut available and that is only 88A. ;) But they probably only use half the battery a day, so that is ONLY 44 A at 400 V, not a lot at all. Why only half the battery? Because with all stopping and starting the average speed is around 5 km/h, so in 8 hour shift that is 40 km per day. That is only 25 miles. The whole battery have 60 miles of range doing pickups, so they use only half the battery a day.
Having had the opportunity through a country-sponsored conservation program to tour a recycling and transfer station nearly a decade ago, it really puts in perspective why we really need to be creating and buying more sustainable products. I learned way back in 2nd grade about recycling (idk, 1993 or 1994) and took it to heart. I'm very passionate about educating people and would do it many many times daily while working for state parks. I just cringe when I see things like plastic drink bottles in the trash (like I saw here). I think overall we've been lacking over the past 2 decades on education, but it's actually nice to see an electric garbage truck. Really looking forward to school busses and 18 wheelers make the adoption. Maybe in the next decade or two this will really drive home the idea of hot-swapping battery packs. This way batteries can be charged slowly to preserve integrity and you could have it done in a few minutes--Which would negate a big negative that electrics currently have. Loved the video, hope to see more like this!
This video was extremely helpful to me. I work in waste management and this is the most comprehensive video I’ve ever seen on how a garbage truck works! 👍🏾
That was fascinating, Zack! A couple questions I have after watching - does it utilize any kind of regen braking, and what's the EV charging process like for this thing - does it use the same standard J1772 plug and level 2 or 3 charging?
I just saw a guy on reddit telling about the first all electric construction vehicle for asphalting in Germany. That stuff is so cool and awesome to see it beginning to work out!
I rarely seeing a person wanted to drive a Garbage Truck as kid since it considered as "Dirty Job". While I wanted driving a Delivery Cargo when I was kid and just become real 20 years later. I sometimes deliver some goods to other places by myself when I have free time in my store.
Strange that some countries still have land fills. We sort all our garbage, into paper, cardboard, glass, metal, soft/hard plastic, bio (anything suitable for composting) and the rest is burned for central heating and electricity production. So we have no land fills or anything like that. We actually import garbage from other countries to have enough to burn. Yes burning creates CO2 but the chimney is very efficient in capturing all the bad chemicals, and I think a landfill is much worse, as the risk of ground water pollution and soil pollution is high, it attracts lots of nasty animals, many are injured on sharp objects or get stuck in metal cans etc. and there are even risks of fires, where the smoke is not filtered. Also we can't just fill our planet with garbage, so we need to get rid of it.
Most cities in Utah use a separate can for recycling and green waste pickup. The garbage pictured here would have been from the everything-else/general waste can.
I'll never forget the time a garbage truck accidentally started pushing it's entire compressed load out in front of my house due to a malfunction or rookie mistake. They shut-off the engine half-way through the process. It took a brush pick-up truck with a claw to clean up the mess. I saw the whole thing from my window and was fascinated by the whole situation because a couple of hours later, you'd never know what just happened.
This got me thinking of a great potential series called "JerryRigEverything's Odd Jobs" where you spend a day doing mechanical/industrial work, driving big machines, touring manufacturing facilities, etc. I would pay to watch that!
This is definitely a good application for something being electric, same with semi trucks that are used like maybe 150-300 miles a day, but for long hall semi trucks I don’t see electric being super good until battery technology gets better
I think that's why Toyota is trying so hard to make a Hydrogen fuel cell semi. Quickly refuels, but with massive range and the other benefits of electric.
@@SkylarsTerribleMemes yeah, but in terms of semi trucks the best way to go is like electric with a diesel generator, it doesn’t put out as much emissions as a current semi truck but it will still run like a current semi truck
Now I wish all that trash was going to a recycling center instead of a landfill. What a waste. Also, it seems there is no prio recycling at all. I've seen plastic, glass, ... all in the same bin. We've got a long way to go. edit: also wanted to add a positive note to my msg, awesome they are using electric trucks already.
Definately I could see wide applications for them in transit and depot style operations with a central base. So for example taxi drivers, bus drivers, scat busses, perhaps even school busses. No more finding times for gassing up and there's a possibility to completely knock out your gas/desiel operating budget.
Sweet ride. The most important factor for commercial heavy trucks is torque, the drivability increases a lot for the driver. Especially in stop-and-go traffic, so yeah a perfect fit.
Dude that was awesome! I know you said on Twitter you were testing out a MASSIVE electric vehicle but I had no clue it'd be a garbage truck! Can't wait to see what sort of vehicles adopt electric drivetrains next :D
Using motors for PTO hydraulics is resulted in a sound I can’t bear at all 😂😂. You just hear engine revving which is soothing TBH when you use PTO hydraulics on diesel engines
There’s recycling in the US. Idk why there’s cardboard there. Sometimes people are either lazy or dumb and throw away recyclables instead or recycling them.
I am a Ripeur (person behind the garbage truck) who works in France (Dechetterie des pins Lusignan) and we have some resemblance but for example we have no arms to recover the garbage we do everything by hand we hang the garbage behind the truck and we press the buttons I love my job and I find that discovering how they do in other countries also fascinates me. fun fact the trucks that we use where I work do not transport more than 26,000Kg and the maximum that we have already recovered in one turn is 26,500Kg. Love your video
I am impressed. From the looks of the video, it seems that in the US you are starting to electrify vehicles like rubbish trucks, but you don't recycle. What's the point of using electric vehicles without basics like reusing or recycling...
Recycling has to be organised by the city/state level, it's not something an individual company can do without ridiculous amounts of capital. Whereas a collection/processing company does have the money/ability to get an electric vehicle. These guys will be contractors, they don't get to decide whether their city recycles, but they can do this little bit to help at least. And small steps are better than no steps.
Most people in the US refuse to recycle because they're lazy or they think it's too complicated. Anyone who wants to recycle has to confirm that an item can be recycled (most packaging cannot), any food container has to be thoroughly cleaned, and in most places it has to be driven to the recycling center. This is far too much work for normal people to do. Also, reusing doesn't seem like a possibility because most people are so used to the concept of disposable everything. For example, meals are usually eaten from disposable packaging, on a disposable plate, with a disposable fork, with drinks from a disposable container in a disposable cup, all of which are not recycled. I don't expect this to ever change unless resources become scarce enough that we have to start mining landfills.
What does one have to do with the other? Derrrrrp. Recycling is just not feasible in most of America. Think of tiny little European countries as US cities, density wise. Just like you can get tiny dense European countries to recycle, you can get dense US cities to recycle. The other reason the EU can recycle is because of the debilitating taxes. So Americans would have to choose between not recycling as much and being able to afford their own homes and cars, or mandating recycling and paying rent to some foreigner to live in a tiny hovel, and barely being able to afford a car, like over here in Europe. Recycling is extremely expensive and is payed for by the government. The US doesn't have the tax income in most places to do that. Plus, most of our "recycling" is sent to India or China, where it is handled in environmentally destructive ways. Once you factor in all the shipping and handling of recycling, it is almost a net loss environmentally.
In Finland we have garbage trucks with Gas Turbine engines. They sound really cool and kinda wierd compared to normal truck. The turbine works with any gas and mostly is using organic based biogases. Also Busses in Finland are mostly electric.
This could use some robotic arm AI to automate the pickup. I know this is much faster when the professionals do it but a little assist would be helpful. So very cool to see a full EV garbage truck in action
Great video, just wondering do you have recycling pick up in Salt Lake City? A lot of the “garbage” I saw would have to go in a separate recycling bin here in Montreal, which is picked up on a different day than garbage pick up. Often with the same truck.
I'm trash collector in France and it is fun to see how the sorting center are working the same way ! (But for the truck it is one driver and one dude collecting where I live, not a robotic arm)
Hi, I drive an garbage truck in Finland, our trucks are a bit different. We load the bins manually to the back and dump them in the mouth then we pack it by pressing it with 30t on pressure. We dump our garbage load to an it´s correct waste handling facility. With mixed waste, it goes to an garbage energy facility, where it´s all burned and made in to electricity. Bio waste is going to a bio waste collection facility where they make bio gas and soil out from it. Metal, glass, plastics, cardboard and paper is going to their recycle facilities where they are used again to make stuff out off, like toilet paper and so on.
Jerry, in Middlesbrough England, all our rubbish goes to Teesside incinerator, it is a Teesside incinerator which provides 29.2 megawatts of power to the National Grid. It will be good when the bin wagons are change to electric or hydrogen, the onl bin wagons very noisy & polluting. And no the incinerators is not polluting unlike the old incinerator, the old incinerator was not a powerplant, the new incinerators have state of the art air scrubbers on the Smokestack, the only thing that comes out is steam of the Smokestack.
Great video (as always) One question, Why don't they use different waste bins in the US? Here in the Netherlands most houses have four ( paper, plastic/metals, food and garden products and one for everything else) it's a lot better for the environment.
Because putting money and effort into something that doesn't make money isn't the American dream lifestyle. Plus judging from videos where people cant show their own country on map, half of them wouldn't be able to differentiate paper and plastic bag.
While some places do have recycling, we haven't caught on that much yet. I know most of the places here in Texas I've been have a recycling program, such as my city, it's a bin for recycling, and a bin for trash, usually. And sometimes, it's just a bin for recycling, and bags for trash that get hand loaded in the truck.
In California at least where I live we have 3 bins trash, green waste like grass, twigs etc, and a bin for recyclables. People do a generally shit job of sorting though so probably still a lot of work, except maybe the green waste when people aren't filling the bin with dirt or rocks. Oh and each bin is picked up by a separate truck usually on the same day. So the one Jerry was on was obviously just for trash.
They are neat and all but they are not as powerful as a normal CNG or Diesel truck. Glad you liked a garbage truck! It makes me glad to see someone who's famous likes garbage trucks!
This perfectly encapsulates incremental superficial environmental policy. We're wasting tons of energy on consumer waste and polluting, but we're picking it up in an electric truck. How progressive.
Yeah I was thinking that too. On this particular case there is no recycling at all?! The thrash bins we have here (sweden) are divided into separate sections so we can divide paper, plastic, organic, glass, electronics etc. When the garbage trucks come, they will also have different sections so that most thras can be sorted and recycled directly.
@@Baxtexx to be fair there are plenty of cities with well funded recycling and compost programs, and in my liberal town in Michigan it's pretty good. But access varies widely from place to place, and even with good recycling programs a large amount of plastic is often diverted to landfills. Packaging and products need to meaningfully change on the producer side- it's reduce, reuse, then recycle.
I'm excited for the recycling trucks and garbage trucks to be electric in Michigan, no squealing brakes every 20 seconds! And yes, electric is better environmentally. Would be nice to not need pickups I guess but that's another story...
Zach the primary purpose of the lift axle is not for better weight distribution for less wear and tear on America’s roads; if that were the case then the axle would just be down all the time - especially when it happens to be located in the rear where the greatest concentration of a front-loader’s load weight resides .. The primary purpose of a lift axle is to have an extra set of brakes on longer heavier runs (i.e. heading for the dump)
Fantastic EV, perfect use of electric technology, no pollution on the suburban route. It's a shame though that shed isn't sorting the trash into recyclables and the different types of plastics for onward distribution. Maybe have a quiet word with them? :)
This struck me the most, here in Belgium we have separate waste collections for general waste, cardboard/paper, food waste, garden waste, PET/Plastic. We are currently one of the best in terms of recycling, but seems the states hasn't really caught onto the concept yet?
Jerry as a mechanic that works on garage trucks please stay clear of anything suspended by hydraulics. They don't always have signs of failing and when they fail everything they are holding up comes down faster than you will move. Stay safe!
Gotta use the mirrors or you kill your neck. Close the claws half way and it helps you line up with the can. Bodies are hardox steel and can wear through within 3 yrs mainly in the hopper area. New way is a pretty good truck, been driving them and others for 18yrs. Come on out to Kansas and I'll get you trained in no time 😉 Enjoyed the video! Their not practical for us at the moment, we do more miles and carts then a charge can do..plus their about $600k..at least the Mack version is.
It's a chinese brand. They are all over the third world markets (Egypt, where I'm from) and their consumer cars are garbage (no pun intended) and very cheap made.
The electric garage truck makes a lot of sense 👍. It seems like there could be a better way to transfer the garage to the semi truck though, there is to much extra handling of the garage.
Our town here in Virginia is also getting electric garbage trucks. It's so nice, they're really quiet. I'd bet most people here have been woken up by garbage trucks, but you can barely hear the electric ones when you're inside.
13:12, yes trash is also dumped many times right next to or over recyclables and mixed together since most recyclables don't get recycled anyways, especially on busy days at the transfer station. That's a fact.
ladies & gentlemen, here we have a 'green' garbage collection truck, however what immediately resonated with me seeing how the waste isn't sorted for recycling. it looked like anything and everything goes into your garbage bin (not so in europe, that i can assure you). And then to learn that it's taken from the collection centre and shovelled into landfill... i'm truly surprised by that. i wouldn't call myself a tree-hugger, but how irresponsible is that to just dump your waste into the earth and make it a future generation's problem. Doesn't Denver have any green, ecologically-friendly recycling and forward-thinking waste management policies ? Zack's review of the truck itself and it's features and capabilites however was up to the usual impeccably high standard we come to expect from JRE.
Many places do have recycling bins it depends on the city what types of items are recycled. I'm not sure what leads you to believe Europe doesn't use land fills because they do just like every other place.
A cool idea for the trash trucks, instead of dumping the trash and reloading it into a semi... The garbage trucks red container that had compacted trash already, make it where it can be removed, and placed on a semi trailer???
Why does America dispose their trash into landfills? Are there no waste incineration plants? And also, aluminum cans, glass- and PET-bottles seem to be in the same trash as all the other stuff, even greenery.
Tbh you can’t say America when referring to stuff like this. I live in New York and I haven’t seen a place that doesn’t offer recycling and in my town all waste is incinerated. But in other places recycling my not be available.
Hmmm Landfill, in Sweden we have recyclingstations and stations where the rest will be burnt and the heat is used to warm up homes. We also had landfills 30+ years ago.
Great video as always Zack! Quite surprised though at the non existent recycling going on there. Only comparing to European standards which emphasises recycling at “home” level.
Our local city wanted to buy a fleet of those. Too bad they won't last an 8hr shift. Still got diesel. Couldn't imagine navigating that beast on our tight city streets. I think they learned their lesson on the two electric bucket trucks, that sit in the weeds since one cought on fire.
I use a Nu Way sidewinder to.. it’s fun to watch someone new experiencing it for the first time.. I have to admit, that electric truck had some power… but diesel will be in our fleet for the foreseeable future
Definitely cool to see, and great improvements, electric should definitely be standardized in city start stop traffic, things like garbage trucks, postal vans, ice cream vans and public transport
They could've added extra solar panel on top so it would charge even when on duty. Cause it's not driving that fast and all day long it would go then stop, pick up garbage, go then stop and so on. As it sit in the sun, it will continuously charge
The only problem would be that it would get filthy and possibly broken I know on my route we have a lot of low hanging branches that tend to smack into the top of the truck
@@justabasslover4404 that's not what I'm saying we have country routes in my town that we run all the time and that involves going down gravel roads which kick up a lot of dust and that dust tends to fall onto the truck coating the truck
This is actually what I do for work I'm 17 and have been doing this for the last 3 years our trucks are not nearly as nice we have to do everything by hand so yes I get to ride on the back of the truck and smell the different fumes from the trash but eventually you get used to it honestly love my job and love the guys I work with we usually put 3 to a truck (a driver and 2 throwers that ride on the back) when we do the city routs and 2 to a truck in the country I do a city route every Monday and I love it until people over load their cans 😂
@@FahadFSA yes we don't just provide our trash pickup service to the people who live in town we also go outside of town and to other small towns around us
Pretty cool. I was hoping they'd engineer some kind of battery swap out. I don't think this would work well where I'm at -- too many houses to service. You'd need a crazy amount of these trucks. I don't know where you're at but we also have separate trucks for recycle bins and "green".
Just out of curiosity, BYD is a Chinese brand, as seen on the steering wheel, was it designed in China made in the US, or is the made in the US just a gimmick? With the ownership and founding in China, I just wondered if it was made in the US. Just asking out of curiosity, sorry for the people who think this question is disrespectful.
The batteries are likely LiFePO4 blades made in China (it's a safe and durable chemistry, at least), but the chassis is probably made in Cali and the garbage-handling stuff is surely added here.
Its actually built with AR500 in case someone dumps a loaded firearm and the "smoosher" sets it off. Otherwise it would launch a live round into the nieghbourhood homes. It's also bomb proof. A bomb that can fit inside a garbage can will cause damage to the container. But it won't explode into neighbourhood homes.
I used to work as a Garbage Man and a big issue is people stealing deasil from the trucks. Also not very fun running behind the truck breathing in deasil fumes all day so this is a the perfect fix for both
Love the video on the EV garbage truck! Did you get to see how it's charged? Do they use typical 220v charging like any other EV or do they use faster charging?
Man this is a real cool video and coming out at a great time my sons been real into garbage trucks So to see this video and mini me behind me just yelling “WOW!!!!! Trash truck WOW!!!” Great way to start my day off.
Ok, two things: 1st.: Those arms are operated manually?! In germany most trucks with side pickup have automatic pickup, they also grab the bins on a rim beneath the lid, not around the body. The best thing is, those arms can pick up two bins at a time, so for appartment buildings, people usually place all the bins in one straight row, very close to each other and they get emptied two at a time. In my oppinion, our trucks also look much more slick and the arms look more substantial. 2nd.: The waste really goes to landfill 😳 you could use it for energy! In germany, waste is usually burned for power and heat, I actually live near a waste-to-energy plant. I guess, you've got more space to waste over there than in most European countrys.
Funfact: BYD is also making batteries for solar roofs. They use the same cells as their vehicles. I got a battery system from them with 5.1 kWh, which is plenty for my house. :)
Thanks again for coming out and taking this for a spin! It was a lot of fun. 😁 Little Jerry would be proud of your superior garbage picking up skills! 😁
Thank YOU!
Don't buy these CCP's trucks
So when's the durability test and tear down?
SO NOT FAIR!!! Congrats.
Thank you for spearheading the race towards an electric future!
I love that you include the metric units. It helps me so much to put things in perspective. Thanks for that
I would not put it past the US Supreme Court to ban using metric units too, soon.
@@wilfriedklaebe the supreme court didn't ban anything. Derrrrrp. It decided that certain things aren't under the control of the federal government and let the states decide what their citizens want. I think half of the problems of this country would be alleviated by having citizens that actually read more than the headline from the MSM. The other half of the problems would be fixed by fining the MSM companies that lie. When you have derpy people that just read a Facebook post or listen to do other rock biter on a TikTok video, and don't know the whole story, you breed more dumb people.
what a fitting place for this kind of reply chain, since the video is literally about garbage.
even funnier if you know that us units are designed of off metric but instead have no logic at all
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For everyone saying "no recycling?" They have a completely separate area and building for all recyclable materials. The person who drives this particular truck daily I know personally. He runs one route of "trash" and two loads of "recycle" a day. They take one route to one building/ area and the other goes to another building/ area. Ace has been one of the best family owned companies in the US and are making incredible leaps and bounds for the future of waste collection and disposal.
I just wish recycling wasn't such a scam
@@akivaweil5066 how so?
You have to look deeper into what happens to the materials beyond the “initial stage” of sorting facilities
A garbage picking up race between Dan and Jerry would be fun. I’d have to give you a head start tho…
Let's GOOOOOOOOOOO
@@JerryRigEverything Please make this happen. LOL.
@@jarethmarroquin5139 you just watched a video where he picked up garbage cans. What makes you think they would be doing it on public roads? Derrrrrp.
@@littlejackalo5326 🤐
@@JerryRigEverything waiting for ur humvee to be completed
10:07 The motor having its own drive shaft is probably so they can use the same hydraulic pump as a diesel powered garbage truck instead of designing a new one. On a regular garbage truck, you’d find that same pump running off a second drive shaft from the transmission.
Interesting, i thought most of them where electric anyway
@@Ifyouarehurtnointentwasapplied the one that makes the systems for them. As wel build the hydrolic coltrolls and batteries for one of our customers 👍
That actually makes a ton of sense with the "PTO" (power take off) button. Just like a tractor, you can either drive or use hydraulics, but not both at once
One system for both power types is fine. But it has to be robust enough to withstand the always maximum availble torque of the electric one. Can't cheap out the design just because diesel power fluctuates and less than maximum is provided at times.
As a supervisor for a trash company on the east side this was cool to see. And also makes me appreciate my drivers more seeing them grab the cans faster lol. For us though an electric truck with that type of range is not practical as most our routes consist of anywhere between 1000 and 1500 homes and because of the area you are covering more then 100 miles a day.
Piling in more batteries should be possible. The fuel and maintenance savings will pay for themselves in no time
@@thomasreese2816 Ah, yes it's so easy. Nevermind that batteries degrade over time. I'd love to see a detailed cost analysis over 10 years.
60 miles of pickups with frequent stops or 200 miles in a straight line. Where I live the routes themselves are 20-25 miles which would use under 40% of the battery leaving 60% of the battery left for getting to the routes and too and from the landfill (up to 120 miles). Tipping would require a few KG of battery too.
Doable where I live but I'd be getting some serious range anxiety.
@@thomasreese2816 apparently truck is 10 tons empty, and you want to add more batteries(weight) on it, and then you're probably a person who would complain about how all the roads need fixing because there are holes everywhere from heavy trucks
You have to wonder when they are going to add a road tax on electricity used for driving on the roads. As more switch over they are going to have to start picking up the lose from fuel sales. But then we are going to have to shut down our homes to have the power to charge this stuff at night some years down the road
"The turning radius is of a garbage truck" - LOL 😂😂
Makes sense for a vehicle like that, when it doesn't drive that far of a distance every day, just start and stop over and over so it can get a lot done with the range it has. And the torque that the electric motor gives it's so well fitted for this.
You put a 350KwH battery in anything and it would make sense, a SUV would go over 1,000 miles in a single charge
@@schoonerthedog Yea, that'd be awesome, but that suv would weigh 10 metric tons 😅
I do this for a living, he said 60 miles range with 600 pick ups that's horrible I do minimum 1000 houses a day and most have 2 cans. So that's probably 400 stops realistically, then we factor In cold weather probably even lower aaaannnd you have to drive to the route then to the landfill/recycling center this things a joke
jerry is a true lover of power, machinery and mechanics...this video again proves it correct... I just love his enthusiasm towards now tech giants... looking forward to your new hummer EV final look bro...!!!!
Why do you use 3 dots so often and where is capital letter for J...Jerry ???
@@zuti071 sorry, sir next time I will complete my homework correctly...!
Garbage trucks always seemed like the perfect candidate for electrification. They have frequent stop/starts, load in residential areas at antisocial times where noise is an issue, operate in large depots which could easily fit a charging station and once their shift is over they sit around doing nothing leaving plenty of time to charge.
I was thinking a top loader was a strange choice considering the energy limitations (I may be biased too because they're pretty rare where I live) but doing the math lifting the trash would only require a few kg or extra battery to perform this work.
> plenty of time to charge
With a 350kWh pack, that'd require some fairly hefty charging to fill it overnight. If you wanted to use an AC feed, you'd need a 148A charger to fill that battery in 10 hours. You could maybe depend on having 15 hours a day of charge time, which would drop that to ~100 A, which is pretty doable.
But I wonder if they just use a custom, low-power DC "slow charger"? When you've got 10 hours to charge, you'd only need 35kW... per truck. Though that's actually quite a lot, now that I think about it.
LNG/CNG.
Look up waste management, they been doing it for years
@@ryanhack5 Those are still fossil fuels that emit CO2. We have to stop emitting CO2 as quickly as possible. Might be worthwhile as a stopgap until we can fully electrify the entire fleet, though.
@@coredumperror you're telling me, you'd rather use batteries that ruin the Earth worse than LNG or CNG or hydrogen?
You do realize you could never ever remove or lower CO2. You going to just stop volcanoes above land and under water? Lol just stop now.
Trees would be dead and most of all your drinks and food use CO2.
Come work in the cryogenic field sometime. You might learn a few things about the periodic table.
@@coredumperror IF they empty the battery every day down to 0 %, then it is correct: 148A at 236V yes, BUT they have 400 V industrial AC circut available and that is only 88A. ;) But they probably only use half the battery a day, so that is ONLY 44 A at 400 V, not a lot at all. Why only half the battery? Because with all stopping and starting the average speed is around 5 km/h, so in 8 hour shift that is 40 km per day. That is only 25 miles. The whole battery have 60 miles of range doing pickups, so they use only half the battery a day.
Having had the opportunity through a country-sponsored conservation program to tour a recycling and transfer station nearly a decade ago, it really puts in perspective why we really need to be creating and buying more sustainable products.
I learned way back in 2nd grade about recycling (idk, 1993 or 1994) and took it to heart. I'm very passionate about educating people and would do it many many times daily while working for state parks. I just cringe when I see things like plastic drink bottles in the trash (like I saw here). I think overall we've been lacking over the past 2 decades on education, but it's actually nice to see an electric garbage truck. Really looking forward to school busses and 18 wheelers make the adoption.
Maybe in the next decade or two this will really drive home the idea of hot-swapping battery packs. This way batteries can be charged slowly to preserve integrity and you could have it done in a few minutes--Which would negate a big negative that electrics currently have. Loved the video, hope to see more like this!
This video was extremely helpful to me. I work in waste management and this is the most comprehensive video I’ve ever seen on how a garbage truck works! 👍🏾
That was fascinating, Zack! A couple questions I have after watching - does it utilize any kind of regen braking, and what's the EV charging process like for this thing - does it use the same standard J1772 plug and level 2 or 3 charging?
he stated that it's good for stopping and starting, ergo it most likely uses regen braking
@@RycoonGalloy The power meter going into positives and negatives on the dash gives it away...
Cool video and all but Zack, the biggest mystery is how can you spill an "unopened" drink container? Anyone else notice that? Love your videos my man.
Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder
@@Roger__Wilco I know right? It caused a big issue for everyone 😂
I just saw a guy on reddit telling about the first all electric construction vehicle for asphalting in Germany. That stuff is so cool and awesome to see it beginning to work out!
Jerry waiting to say:"Scratches at level 6 with deeper grooves at level 7"
Garbage truck company:" Na bruh we goin bullet proof here!"
Underrated comment!
@@prakash_77 kind of you ✨
13:40 this is one hell of a view for someone who lives in a country where people recycle the majority of their waste
Jerry out here doing what we all wanted to as kids
I rarely seeing a person wanted to drive a Garbage Truck as kid since it considered as "Dirty Job". While I wanted driving a Delivery Cargo when I was kid and just become real 20 years later. I sometimes deliver some goods to other places by myself when I have free time in my store.
@@hartonosutrisno5452 Garbage Truck Drivers arent really dirty. if you are doing ASL you shouldnt get to dirty
Strange that some countries still have land fills. We sort all our garbage, into paper, cardboard, glass, metal, soft/hard plastic, bio (anything suitable for composting) and the rest is burned for central heating and electricity production. So we have no land fills or anything like that. We actually import garbage from other countries to have enough to burn. Yes burning creates CO2 but the chimney is very efficient in capturing all the bad chemicals, and I think a landfill is much worse, as the risk of ground water pollution and soil pollution is high, it attracts lots of nasty animals, many are injured on sharp objects or get stuck in metal cans etc. and there are even risks of fires, where the smoke is not filtered. Also we can't just fill our planet with garbage, so we need to get rid of it.
What about recycling and other waste management projects?! It all end up in a landfill?!
Most cities in Utah use a separate can for recycling and green waste pickup. The garbage pictured here would have been from the everything-else/general waste can.
I'll never forget the time a garbage truck accidentally started pushing it's entire compressed load out in front of my house due to a malfunction or rookie mistake. They shut-off the engine half-way through the process. It took a brush pick-up truck with a claw to clean up the mess. I saw the whole thing from my window and was fascinated by the whole situation because a couple of hours later, you'd never know what just happened.
This got me thinking of a great potential series called "JerryRigEverything's Odd Jobs" where you spend a day doing mechanical/industrial work, driving big machines, touring manufacturing facilities, etc. I would pay to watch that!
That sounds like a good series
So basically Dirty Jobs, what Mike Rowe did
This is definitely a good application for something being electric, same with semi trucks that are used like maybe 150-300 miles a day, but for long hall semi trucks I don’t see electric being super good until battery technology gets better
I think that's why Toyota is trying so hard to make a Hydrogen fuel cell semi. Quickly refuels, but with massive range and the other benefits of electric.
long haul trucks can mostly just be replaced by electric freight trains
@@SkylarsTerribleMemes yeah, but in terms of semi trucks the best way to go is like electric with a diesel generator, it doesn’t put out as much emissions as a current semi truck but it will still run like a current semi truck
@@B3nluke Because a long-haul semi runs the engine at a reasonably constant state, going diesel-electric wouldn't be of any use.
@@B3nluke Yeah thats called a train. If we had more trains we would have a lot less trucks and pollution and road wear
This channel is transforming literally *everything* to electric! 🤣
transforming ... heh
@@xploration1437 probably change that to electric as well
Now I wish all that trash was going to a recycling center instead of a landfill. What a waste.
Also, it seems there is no prio recycling at all. I've seen plastic, glass, ... all in the same bin.
We've got a long way to go.
edit: also wanted to add a positive note to my msg, awesome they are using electric trucks already.
Yea that was DOPE! Funny how electric vehicles are simply more practical for certain applications
Definately I could see wide applications for them in transit and depot style operations with a central base. So for example taxi drivers, bus drivers, scat busses, perhaps even school busses. No more finding times for gassing up and there's a possibility to completely knock out your gas/desiel operating budget.
Sweet ride. The most important factor for commercial heavy trucks is torque, the drivability increases a lot for the driver. Especially in stop-and-go traffic, so yeah a perfect fit.
Dude that was awesome! I know you said on Twitter you were testing out a MASSIVE electric vehicle but I had no clue it'd be a garbage truck! Can't wait to see what sort of vehicles adopt electric drivetrains next :D
Using motors for PTO hydraulics is resulted in a sound I can’t bear at all 😂😂. You just hear engine revving which is soothing TBH when you use PTO hydraulics on diesel engines
Could you look at the process of burning rubbish in waste-to-energy plants to produce power for the grid, rather than sending it to landfill?
Always happy that you convert mph and miles to kph and km. Cheers for that!
Thanks for always posting such a great variety of videos! Always excited to see something different and this one was fascinating! 👍👍
Thanks
Great video and very interesting.
I am very surprised to see so much cardboard, there is no recycling bin in the USA?
There’s recycling in the US. Idk why there’s cardboard there. Sometimes people are either lazy or dumb and throw away recyclables instead or recycling them.
I am a Ripeur (person behind the garbage truck) who works in France (Dechetterie des pins Lusignan) and we have some resemblance but for example we have no arms to recover the garbage we do everything by hand we hang the garbage behind the truck and we press the buttons I love my job and I find that discovering how they do in other countries also fascinates me.
fun fact the trucks that we use where I work do not transport more than 26,000Kg and the maximum that we have already recovered in one turn is 26,500Kg. Love your video
I am impressed. From the looks of the video, it seems that in the US you are starting to electrify vehicles like rubbish trucks, but you don't recycle. What's the point of using electric vehicles without basics like reusing or recycling...
by the way, the buttons on the console of the recycling truck are badly translated into Spanish :)
Recycling has to be organised by the city/state level, it's not something an individual company can do without ridiculous amounts of capital. Whereas a collection/processing company does have the money/ability to get an electric vehicle.
These guys will be contractors, they don't get to decide whether their city recycles, but they can do this little bit to help at least. And small steps are better than no steps.
Most people in the US refuse to recycle because they're lazy or they think it's too complicated.
Anyone who wants to recycle has to confirm that an item can be recycled (most packaging cannot), any food container has to be thoroughly cleaned, and in most places it has to be driven to the recycling center. This is far too much work for normal people to do.
Also, reusing doesn't seem like a possibility because most people are so used to the concept of disposable everything. For example, meals are usually eaten from disposable packaging, on a disposable plate, with a disposable fork, with drinks from a disposable container in a disposable cup, all of which are not recycled.
I don't expect this to ever change unless resources become scarce enough that we have to start mining landfills.
What does one have to do with the other? Derrrrrp. Recycling is just not feasible in most of America. Think of tiny little European countries as US cities, density wise. Just like you can get tiny dense European countries to recycle, you can get dense US cities to recycle. The other reason the EU can recycle is because of the debilitating taxes. So Americans would have to choose between not recycling as much and being able to afford their own homes and cars, or mandating recycling and paying rent to some foreigner to live in a tiny hovel, and barely being able to afford a car, like over here in Europe. Recycling is extremely expensive and is payed for by the government. The US doesn't have the tax income in most places to do that. Plus, most of our "recycling" is sent to India or China, where it is handled in environmentally destructive ways. Once you factor in all the shipping and handling of recycling, it is almost a net loss environmentally.
@@littlejackalo5326 omg, that was a shit LOAD of bullshit. Thinking like this is why our world will end burning, oh the humanity…
In Finland we have garbage trucks with Gas Turbine engines. They sound really cool and kinda wierd compared to normal truck. The turbine works with any gas and mostly is using organic based biogases. Also Busses in Finland are mostly electric.
Is your garbage extra compacted by the hydraulic press guy?
This could use some robotic arm AI to automate the pickup. I know this is much faster when the professionals do it but a little assist would be helpful.
So very cool to see a full EV garbage truck in action
I was wondering if there were no cameras for positioning the arm...
Great video, just wondering do you have recycling pick up in Salt Lake City? A lot of the “garbage” I saw would have to go in a separate recycling bin here in Montreal, which is picked up on a different day than garbage pick up. Often with the same truck.
I’m shocked that batteries work here bc of the massive weight involved and power needs of all the machinery. Love it. Looks like progress to me.
Batteries actually do work! It’s the applications of these trucks in city constantly stop and going make recuperation….. better
The pumps are low-power relative to the motive power. And weight matters less on BEV than ICE because kinetic energy can be recovered.
I'm trash collector in France and it is fun to see how the sorting center are working the same way ! (But for the truck it is one driver and one dude collecting where I live, not a robotic arm)
This is why I subscribed to your channel. I appreciate the content.
Hi, I drive an garbage truck in Finland, our trucks are a bit different. We load the bins manually to the back and dump them in the mouth then we pack it by pressing it with 30t on pressure. We dump our garbage load to an it´s correct waste handling facility. With mixed waste, it goes to an garbage energy facility, where it´s all burned and made in to electricity. Bio waste is going to a bio waste collection facility where they make bio gas and soil out from it. Metal, glass, plastics, cardboard and paper is going to their recycle facilities where they are used again to make stuff out off, like toilet paper and so on.
I can't believe JerryRig got me to watch a trash truck for 10 mins. It's like watching blippie for adults...
Jerry, in Middlesbrough England, all our rubbish goes to Teesside incinerator, it is a Teesside incinerator which provides 29.2 megawatts of power to the National Grid.
It will be good when the bin wagons are change to electric or hydrogen, the onl bin wagons very noisy & polluting.
And no the incinerators is not polluting unlike the old incinerator, the old incinerator was not a powerplant, the new incinerators have state of the art air scrubbers on the Smokestack, the only thing that comes out is steam of the Smokestack.
Great video (as always)
One question,
Why don't they use different waste bins in the US?
Here in the Netherlands most houses have four ( paper, plastic/metals, food and garden products and one for everything else)
it's a lot better for the environment.
Because sadly in America, they don't care about the environment.
@@madvlad1 luckily" they don't care about the environment.
I don't care about the environment.
Because putting money and effort into something that doesn't make money isn't the American dream lifestyle. Plus judging from videos where people cant show their own country on map, half of them wouldn't be able to differentiate paper and plastic bag.
While some places do have recycling, we haven't caught on that much yet. I know most of the places here in Texas I've been have a recycling program, such as my city, it's a bin for recycling, and a bin for trash, usually. And sometimes, it's just a bin for recycling, and bags for trash that get hand loaded in the truck.
In California at least where I live we have 3 bins trash, green waste like grass, twigs etc, and a bin for recyclables. People do a generally shit job of sorting though so probably still a lot of work, except maybe the green waste when people aren't filling the bin with dirt or rocks. Oh and each bin is picked up by a separate truck usually on the same day. So the one Jerry was on was obviously just for trash.
They are neat and all but they are not as powerful as a normal CNG or Diesel truck. Glad you liked a garbage truck! It makes me glad to see someone who's famous likes garbage trucks!
This perfectly encapsulates incremental superficial environmental policy. We're wasting tons of energy on consumer waste and polluting, but we're picking it up in an electric truck. How progressive.
Yeah I was thinking that too. On this particular case there is no recycling at all?! The thrash bins we have here (sweden) are divided into separate sections so we can divide paper, plastic, organic, glass, electronics etc. When the garbage trucks come, they will also have different sections so that most thras can be sorted and recycled directly.
@@Baxtexx to be fair there are plenty of cities with well funded recycling and compost programs, and in my liberal town in Michigan it's pretty good. But access varies widely from place to place, and even with good recycling programs a large amount of plastic is often diverted to landfills. Packaging and products need to meaningfully change on the producer side- it's reduce, reuse, then recycle.
I'm excited for the recycling trucks and garbage trucks to be electric in Michigan, no squealing brakes every 20 seconds! And yes, electric is better environmentally. Would be nice to not need pickups I guess but that's another story...
Zach the primary purpose of the lift axle is not for better weight distribution for less wear and tear on America’s roads; if that were the case then the axle would just be down all the time - especially when it happens to be located in the rear where the greatest concentration of a front-loader’s load weight resides .. The primary purpose of a lift axle is to have an extra set of brakes on longer heavier runs (i.e. heading for the dump)
Fantastic EV, perfect use of electric technology, no pollution on the suburban route. It's a shame though that shed isn't sorting the trash into recyclables and the different types of plastics for onward distribution. Maybe have a quiet word with them? :)
This struck me the most, here in Belgium we have separate waste collections for general waste, cardboard/paper, food waste, garden waste, PET/Plastic. We are currently one of the best in terms of recycling, but seems the states hasn't really caught onto the concept yet?
Jerry as a mechanic that works on garage trucks please stay clear of anything suspended by hydraulics. They don't always have signs of failing and when they fail everything they are holding up comes down faster than you will move. Stay safe!
Gotta use the mirrors or you kill your neck. Close the claws half way and it helps you line up with the can. Bodies are hardox steel and can wear through within 3 yrs mainly in the hopper area. New way is a pretty good truck, been driving them and others for 18yrs. Come on out to Kansas and I'll get you trained in no time 😉 Enjoyed the video! Their not practical for us at the moment, we do more miles and carts then a charge can do..plus their about $600k..at least the Mack version is.
Yeah I can confirm as I live out in the country in Kansas and most electric commercial vehicles are generally a poor idea here
Jerry killing the hydraulic steering pump at 4:59. Hear the psssssss of the relief valve!🤣
BYD is an amazing company, hardly anyone has heard of them too!
It's a chinese brand. They are all over the third world markets (Egypt, where I'm from) and their consumer cars are garbage (no pun intended) and very cheap made.
I've heard of them. It was mostly in the context of transit buses, though.
Well known in Europe by now, mainly their electric busses
BYD is a company from China, Chinese name is 比亚迪(in Chinese pinyin pronunciation: bí yà dí)
@@kj851 and yet I saw made in USA stamp somewhere in the video
That opening smile @ 00:05 show just how happy Jerry is to drive the truck. Like boyhood dream just came true🤣
The electric garage truck makes a lot of sense 👍. It seems like there could be a better way to transfer the garage to the semi truck though, there is to much extra handling of the garage.
Garage
Our town here in Virginia is also getting electric garbage trucks.
It's so nice, they're really quiet. I'd bet most people here have been woken up by garbage trucks, but you can barely hear the electric ones when you're inside.
Heavy machinery becoming electric is very interesting and I'm interested to see what's next!
13:12, yes trash is also dumped many times right next to or over recyclables and mixed together since most recyclables don't get recycled anyways, especially on busy days at the transfer station. That's a fact.
ladies & gentlemen, here we have a 'green' garbage collection truck, however what immediately resonated with me seeing how the waste isn't sorted for recycling. it looked like anything and everything goes into your garbage bin (not so in europe, that i can assure you). And then to learn that it's taken from the collection centre and shovelled into landfill... i'm truly surprised by that. i wouldn't call myself a tree-hugger, but how irresponsible is that to just dump your waste into the earth and make it a future generation's problem. Doesn't Denver have any green, ecologically-friendly recycling and forward-thinking waste management policies ? Zack's review of the truck itself and it's features and capabilites however was up to the usual impeccably high standard we come to expect from JRE.
I agree. I didn't think landfills were even a thing in the west anymore.
Yeah and when the battery’s dying the truck that’ll go to the landfill to
Many places do have recycling bins it depends on the city what types of items are recycled. I'm not sure what leads you to believe Europe doesn't use land fills because they do just like every other place.
A cool idea for the trash trucks, instead of dumping the trash and reloading it into a semi... The garbage trucks red container that had compacted trash already, make it where it can be removed, and placed on a semi trailer???
Why does America dispose their trash into landfills? Are there no waste incineration plants?
And also, aluminum cans, glass- and PET-bottles seem to be in the same trash as all the other stuff, even greenery.
It's cheap
Tbh you can’t say America when referring to stuff like this. I live in New York and I haven’t seen a place that doesn’t offer recycling and in my town all waste is incinerated. But in other places recycling my not be available.
Hmmm Landfill, in Sweden we have recyclingstations and stations where the rest will be burnt and the heat is used to warm up homes. We also had landfills 30+ years ago.
God I love information so much.
I'm loving that you're showing more interesting things other than phone teardowns it's a nice change 😁
Great video as always Zack! Quite surprised though at the non existent recycling going on there. Only comparing to European standards which emphasises recycling at “home” level.
Our local city wanted to buy a fleet of those. Too bad they won't last an 8hr shift. Still got diesel. Couldn't imagine navigating that beast on our tight city streets. I think they learned their lesson on the two electric bucket trucks, that sit in the weeds since one cought on fire.
"It's got a turning radius of a garbage truck"
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Quite literally!
I use a Nu Way sidewinder to.. it’s fun to watch someone new experiencing it for the first time.. I have to admit, that electric truck had some power… but diesel will be in our fleet for the foreseeable future
Wouldn't it be logical to place a camera behind the hydraulic arm in order to aim it easily? 🤔
And then once you have a camera there, add a microcontroller than can detect the bins and automatically move the correct distance to pick them up.
Definitely cool to see, and great improvements, electric should definitely be standardized in city start stop traffic, things like garbage trucks, postal vans, ice cream vans and public transport
They could've added extra solar panel on top so it would charge even when on duty. Cause it's not driving that fast and all day long it would go then stop, pick up garbage, go then stop and so on. As it sit in the sun, it will continuously charge
The only problem would be that it would get filthy and possibly broken I know on my route we have a lot of low hanging branches that tend to smack into the top of the truck
@@Nopenottoday6907 well, you wouldn't put a garbage on top, would you?🤣
@@justabasslover4404 that's not what I'm saying we have country routes in my town that we run all the time and that involves going down gravel roads which kick up a lot of dust and that dust tends to fall onto the truck coating the truck
@@justabasslover4404 also you would be surprised where that trash and trash juice goes
@@Nopenottoday6907 you could just clean the top like spray water everyday when you're done collecting garbage👌👌
Damn you Zack. Making me thoroughly watch videos about gardening, solar panel installation, a garbage truck and the whole process of it
"Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences and stupid people already have all answers"
Zacks utilitarian vlogs are a lot of fun.
This is actually what I do for work I'm 17 and have been doing this for the last 3 years our trucks are not nearly as nice we have to do everything by hand so yes I get to ride on the back of the truck and smell the different fumes from the trash but eventually you get used to it honestly love my job and love the guys I work with we usually put 3 to a truck (a driver and 2 throwers that ride on the back) when we do the city routs and 2 to a truck in the country I do a city route every Monday and I love it until people over load their cans 😂
country?
@@FahadFSA yes we don't just provide our trash pickup service to the people who live in town we also go outside of town and to other small towns around us
@@Nopenottoday6907 I was asking your country xD
@@FahadFSA oh my bad 😂 I'm from America
Finally jerry is driving a rig
Pretty cool. I was hoping they'd engineer some kind of battery swap out. I don't think this would work well where I'm at -- too many houses to service. You'd need a crazy amount of these trucks. I don't know where you're at but we also have separate trucks for recycle bins and "green".
Thanks I was always wondering how to perform this extremely specific task
00:41 "Oh! Its Gonna Be Expensive" 😆😆
Just out of curiosity, BYD is a Chinese brand, as seen on the steering wheel, was it designed in China made in the US, or is the made in the US just a gimmick? With the ownership and founding in China, I just wondered if it was made in the US.
Just asking out of curiosity, sorry for the people who think this question is disrespectful.
Made in USA means assembled in USA
It is made in Lancaster, California. BYD have factory there
The batteries are likely LiFePO4 blades made in China (it's a safe and durable chemistry, at least), but the chassis is probably made in Cali and the garbage-handling stuff is surely added here.
Seems really practical for the start stop infront of every garbage can a truck does
A very cool machine indeed. The only sad part is that the rubbish goes to a landfill instead of recycling or at least incineration for electricity
Its actually built with AR500 in case someone dumps a loaded firearm and the "smoosher" sets it off. Otherwise it would launch a live round into the nieghbourhood homes. It's also bomb proof. A bomb that can fit inside a garbage can will cause damage to the container. But it won't explode into neighbourhood homes.
"It's got the turn radius of a garbage truck."
Well, what did you expect?
I used to work as a Garbage Man and a big issue is people stealing deasil from the trucks. Also not very fun running behind the truck breathing in deasil fumes all day so this is a the perfect fix for both
This things range has gotta be like 2 miles with all that weight lol
Watch the vid again lmao, it's stated to be around ~60 miles when full 🙂
@@eze-takes177 it's a joke bro
Little tip from an avid filmer and operator, use the mirrors to your advantage, they are your BEST friend
made in china isn't it BYD?
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“It’s got the turning radius of the garbage truck.” That killed me.
RIP
12:55 The smell inside the transfer station must be insane this time of year.
"It's got the turning circle of a garbage truck." This made my day
Love the video on the EV garbage truck! Did you get to see how it's charged? Do they use typical 220v charging like any other EV or do they use faster charging?
Definitely another excellent video. Thanks
The way Zack says 'sMoUsHiNg' had me rolling 😂😂😂
Man this is a real cool video and coming out at a great time my sons been real into garbage trucks
So to see this video and mini me behind me just yelling “WOW!!!!! Trash truck WOW!!!”
Great way to start my day off.
Ok, two things:
1st.: Those arms are operated manually?! In germany most trucks with side pickup have automatic pickup, they also grab the bins on a rim beneath the lid, not around the body. The best thing is, those arms can pick up two bins at a time, so for appartment buildings, people usually place all the bins in one straight row, very close to each other and they get emptied two at a time. In my oppinion, our trucks also look much more slick and the arms look more substantial.
2nd.: The waste really goes to landfill 😳 you could use it for energy! In germany, waste is usually burned for power and heat, I actually live near a waste-to-energy plant. I guess, you've got more space to waste over there than in most European countrys.
"It's got the turning radius of a garbage truck" is the best one liner. So good!
Funfact: BYD is also making batteries for solar roofs. They use the same cells as their vehicles. I got a battery system from them with 5.1 kWh, which is plenty for my house. :)
Congratulations on your first BLS @ 6:20