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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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[–] Schmuppes@lemmy.today 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

15,000 km is not an awful lot of distance, but it's good to gear that we may get rid of Diesel HGVs in th e not too distant future.

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Tractor or truck?

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 10 points 13 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 13 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 8 hours ago

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