Chinese steelmakers starting to learn on electric trucks

17.09.2019

The company Beiben put Chinese steelmakers heavy electrochemically

According to the website chinatrucks.com recently, a Chinese company, Baotou Bei Ben Heavy-Duty Truck Co., Ltd. officially put a batch of 18 heavy electric trucks in the brand of Beiben company Ansteel Logistic (a subsidiary of one of the oldest Chinese steel corporations Ansteel Group). compared to heavy trucks diesel electric truck Beiben has noticeable advantages in the area of short transportation on fixed routes, providing high ecological compatibility and efficiency, allowing operators road freight transport significantly reduce operating costs.

Electrochemical Beiben with the wheel formula 8x4 (created on the basis of popular models V3ET) equipped with a lithium-iron-phosphate batteries CATL and electric drive system Topgear. The reserve electrochemical at a constant speed up to 120 km and it fully complies with the requirements of operation in the ports. compared with their counterparts, the truck reduces the energy consumption by 10-15%. in addition, to fully charge its battery takes only 1.5 hours or six minutes to replace the battery on a charged.

At the moment, Ansteel has already acquired 25 units of heavy electrochemical production Beiben. Laisteel steel company and Baosteel also announced its plans to purchase electric heavy trucks Beiben.

PS More recently, commercial electric vehicles were almost exclusively Euro-style delivery vans or utility vehicles (including heavy-duty), but still only with local machine. And now, already has electric dump truck, Beiben now introduced electrochemical more familiar dimension, suitable for quarrying, and for use on closed territories – in ports, workshops, construction sites in historic urban neighborhoods, including near pedestrian and other "green" areas.   

P. P. S. by the Way, the production capacity of the company Baotou Bei Ben Heavy-Duty Truck Co., Ltd. For 6 months of 2019 was only 2793 units of heavy trucks, 43.1% less than the same period last year. This suggests that Bei Ben desperately need to find new segments of the market – hence, such activity in the field of electric drive. However, with given the frenzied growth of the segment is the severe electrogrooving: according to CAAM – 2748 units for 6 months of 2019, against just 23 units in the previous year (an increase of almost 120 times!), it seems that this segment seriously interested in such giants of the freight industry CNHDTб China as Shaanxi, JAC, Dongfeng and FAW (not necessarily in that order), so this "small" producers such as Bei Ben and here a little that shines.