Though good luck keeping your appetite after the first day on the job. The whole trash dance takes a claimed 30 seconds, meaning you could bang out most of the neighborhood by lunch. Basically, it’s a lot of trash manipulation. There are hydraulic actuators everywhere performing tasks like trash grabbing, trash lifting, trash dumping, and trash compacting. The remote control, which you can see being operated in the video below, seems to have more functions than the remote to my parent’s old VCR. Not only is there the drive motor that gets this aerodynamic equivalent of a brick wall up to 35 km/h (22 mph), but there’s also a complete hydraulic system for all of the garbage-related duties. There are a lot of accessories to power though, so it’s good to know this garbage truck is a sleeper hot rod. With a 72V electrical system, that means it can actually pull a peak of nearly 30 kW from the batteries! Who knew the most powerful electric vehicle on Alibaba would turn out to be a garbage truck?! The real gem in this truck though is its 400A speed controller. I don’t know if that should make me laugh or cry). (Which, by the way, also makes this one of the most powerful electric vehicles ever featured in this column. What’s that? You’ve got a pre-order for a 2024 Chevy Silverado EV electric truck? Congrats on being basic!Įnjoy your excessive, wasteful 350 kW of power! I’ll be the real talk of the town with my ultra-efficient 7.5 kW motor. While everyone else is showing off in their electric F150 Lightnings and their shiny new Rivians, I’ll have the rarest e-truck of them all: A Chinese mini electric garbage truck. I can accept the fact that I’ll probably have to give up my chance to appear in the upcoming 2022 Calendar: Sexy Electric Firetruck Operators, and instead, hope for a feature in a tattered pull-out ad of dirty coverall-clad waste management engineers of high ethical and environmental standards.īut that’s just the price I’ll have to pay for operating this awesome electric vehicle, which is sure to turn as many heads as it does trash cans. But an electric garbage truck has its own quirky charm to it. Granted, it may not have the same flash or pizazz as an electric fire truck. The garbage e-truck in this week’s edition of the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week will make that keenly possible, and I’ll sure be doing municipal waste collection in style! And considering the famed high-wages that garbage men are supposed to receive, perhaps its time I bought an electric garbage truck and take this dumpster fire on the road. After I had such a good time pretending to operate my own private fire service with the mini electric fire truck I found last week, I think I’ll stick with the municipal services for just a bit longer.
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