{"id":79925,"date":"2025-01-25T12:19:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T17:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=79925"},"modified":"2025-01-25T12:19:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T17:19:57","slug":"volvo-fm-electric-semi-trucks-helping-to-fight-wildfires-in-nsw-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=79925","title":{"rendered":"Volvo FM Electric semi trucks helping to fight wildfires in NSW, Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The New South Wales Rural Fire Service is putting the new, 600 km Volvo FM Electric semi truck<\/a> through its paces as they work to decarbonize their emergency vehicle fleet and keep Australia safe from the devastating effects of wildfires<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Volvo FM Electric is on loan to the NSW RFS for an extended test drive as part of a broader effort to understand how low- and zero-emissions vehicles can be integrated into the agency\u2019s emergency services fleets in the future \u2014 and the early results are positive!<\/p>\n

In an impressive display of capability, the electric semi truck tackled the\u00a0550 kilometer route<\/a> (340 miles) from the services\u2019 Glendenning NSW logistics\u00a0headquarters to the border city of Albury with a loaded up RFS water tanker in tow. The truck and trailer arrived just in time to be displayed at the\u00a0NSW RFS Championships in the suburb of Thurgoona.<\/p>\n

The truck was operated by a two-man driving team consisting of Inspector Brendan Doyle, RFS Logistics\u00a0Manager, and RFS Logistics & Transport Supervisor Peter Duff, who shared driving\u00a0duties over the route to asses the performance Volvo FM Electric, as well as the heavy vehicle charging experience at each side of the trip.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis drive presented a great opportunity for us to touch, feel and\u00a0experience an electric prime mover on public roads,\u201d explained Doyle.\u00a0\u201cIt also allows us to consider where a vehicle like this could fill roles\u00a0within our logistics fleet in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doyle\u2019s partner on the ride concurs. \u201cThe driving experience was sensational,\u201d added Duff, \u201cOne of the\u00a0key takeaways for me was that you could take anyone familiar with an\u00a0existing Volvo truck and they\u2019d be able to drive this without additional\u00a0training at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

The truck averaged 88.7 km\/h on the trip, with an energy\u00a0consumption of 1.24 kWh\/km \u2014 a figure comparable to the Tesla Semi, which Tesla CEO Elon Musk claims uses 2 kWh of energy per mile<\/a>. The big Volvo required less than 2 total hours\u2019 charging to complete the 6 hour and 15 minute trip\u00a0with stops at Goulburn and Tarcutta.<\/p>\n

Electrek\u2019s Take<\/h2>\n

It\u2019s great to see electric semi trucks being used in real-world heavy haul applications, as opposed to the easy-to-criticize potato chip hauling performances we\u2019ve seen other brands put up in the recent past. As Volvo\u2019s deployed electric truck fleet knocks on the door of 100 million miles driven<\/a>, it\u2019s hard to believe Tesla will be able to catch up.<\/p>\n

That said, it\u2019s happened before \u2014 who among us though the Model Y would be the best selling car in the world back in 2014? If you did, scroll on down to the comments and let us know.<\/p>\n

SOURCE | IMAGES<\/strong>: Volvo Trucks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The New South Wales Rural Fire Service is putting the new, 600 km Volvo FM Electric semi truck through its paces as they work to decarbonize their emergency vehicle fleet and keep Australia safe from the devastating effects of wildfires. The Volvo FM Electric is on loan to the NSW RFS for an extended test […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}