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"An electric vehicle start-up is converting semi-trailer trucks into electric
heavy-haulers that will be powered by a quick-change battery network on
Australia’s east coast.
The audacious bid to switch the country’s 100,000 articulated, semi-trailer and
B-double trucks, onto a renewable electric platform has the potential to wipe
out significant carbon emissions and reduce notoriously harmful airborne diesel
particulates.
Trucks chew up about 23 per cent of road transport fuel used in Australia.
Janus Electric, a company founded by Bevan Dooley and Lex Forsyth, has orders
to convert 67 vehicles this year, maxing out its workshop capacity on NSW’s
Central Coast.
As well as transforming existing articulated trucks with a Dana 720 horsepower
electric motor and interchangeable batteries, the company is negotiating with
service stations on the main highways between Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane to
set up a network of large battery-swap terminals. The Sydney to Brisbane leg
will have six such stations.
Dooley said Janus intended to fund the network rollout by selling capital in
the business to raise $100 million from energy-conscious investors within the
next 12 months."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
