Garbage truck powered by rubbish
Feb 3, 2009 Green Technologies, Natural Resource Conservation
A garbage truck will be used by a British town is now being powered by electricity produced from the garbage that it collects. The vehicle in Kirklees Council will take the waste collected to a Energy from Waste power station and recycling center nearby where the garbage is burnt to generate electricity, and the truck recharges at a charging post to be ready for the next day’s route.
The truck is a modified Ford Transit has a top speed of 50 mph, a 100-mile range, and takes about six to eight hours to charge. If one of these babies were in your town, maybe you would have felt less guilty about the trash that you throw out each day!
Read more about power from garbage here.
Source: PhysOrg.
Tags: electric vehicle, waste management
7:52 pm on February 3rd, 2009 Reply to this comment!
The truck was converted by Smith Electric vehicles, and it’s well worth visiting the Case Studies page on their website http://www.smithelectricvehicles.com to see some of the hundreds of other electric vehicles they’ve sold for various uses in the past year or so.
3:29 pm on March 5th, 2009 Reply to this comment!
There is now also a newly formed American company called Smith Electric Vehicles US Corporation whose website is http://www.sev-us.com and they will be assembling the 7.5-ton Smith Newton truck for sale in the US, starting late summer this year.