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FAW tests sodium-ion battery on heavy truck: 90% capacity retention in extreme cold and 20-minute charging (carnewschina.com)
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The test vehicle, a FAW Jiefang J6P new energy pure electric tractor, was equipped with a 339 kWh high-capacity sodium-ion battery. Over a testing period spanning nearly seven months, the vehicle covered a cumulative distance of over 15,000 km.

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[–] Mihies@programming.dev 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Tractor or truck?

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 12 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

You're probably thinking (rightly) of this type of tractor. However, the cabin unit of a truck is also called a tractor.

Searcing for the Jiefang J6p yields results of the latter type.

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting, I suspected that'd be the case, but I never heard of using tractor in this context before. Thanks.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

You've never heard of big rigs being called: "tractor trailer"?

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 1 points 45 minutes ago

Not that I remember 🤷 But then again, I'm not a native speaker, could have easily not paying attention.