“That grows over time as the technology becomes more and more commercially viable.” “At some point, a portion of what we build is going to be combustion-diesel and a portion is going to be electric,” Randall said. Once Mack and its customers are comfortable with the product, following some likely adjustments and tweaks, that’s when the company would look at producing the truck at the assembly plant in Lower Macungie Township, he said. Randall said a second truck will go into service later this year with waste giant Republic Services.
The New York City Department of Sanitation will be Mack’s first customer to test the electric truck. The first electric truck, Randall said, was put together at the Mack Customer Center in conjunction with the company’s engineers in North Carolina. Mack Trucks showed its Mack LR Electric, its first fully electric refuse model at the Mack Customer Center in Allentown Thursday. We believe strongly that electric is one of those solutions that’s going to have longevity and is going to stick, and so we need to be prepared for that.” “All we know is people are going to need equipment to get the daily work done. “I can’t even tell you in 10 or 15 years what the business model may look like,” Randall said. “To have a pure electric truck like this, I never thought it would ever happen in my career,” DiRico said.įor Mack Trucks, which employs more than 2,000 in the Lehigh Valley, its first electric truck shows how the manufacturer is trying to remain ahead of the curve, staying on top of advances in technology as the transportation industry changes, said Jonathan Randall, Mack’s senior vice president of North American sales and marketing. The truck also will help the department, which has a fleet of 6,000 trucks, many of them Macks, as it aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2035. There, DiRico said, his workers plan on “beating the hell” out of it, a tough proving ground in a department that - each day - collects 10,500 tons of residential and institutional garbage along with 1,700 tons of recyclables. While DiRico said the electric truck should make its way to the city by Monday, the long-anticipated vehicle will begin testing in the second quarter. “You get to brag that you traveled across five bridges, through four boroughs, to three airports in two states - and one tunnel.“It’s unbelievable,” DiRico said as he exited the vehicle, repeating the word, “unbelievable” one more time. “Look at it this way, Mom,” Lorraine said with a grin. and took that across the Kosciuszko into Queens.įinally, I dropped her at Terminal C at La Guardia. We took that into Manhattan, drove across Canal Street, went over the Manhattan Bridge into Brooklyn, got on the B.Q.E.
We got back on the turnpike, crossed the Newark Bay Bridge and made our way to the Holland Tunnel. “Oh, no!” she blurted out while scrolling through her text messages. We headed for the Verrazzano, went over it and through Staten Island, crossed the Goethals Bridge and got on the New Jersey Turnpike.Īpproaching the airport exit, I asked Lorraine which terminal she needed. Sure enough, just as I found a parking spot near home, she was booked on a 5:40 p.m. She asked to be placed on one of those flights. Disappointed, Lorraine noticed that the airline also flew to Nashville from La Guardia and Newark.
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