Can Electric Trucks Challenge Diesel? The Future of Heavy Transport

Can electric trucks challenge diesel? The Future of Heavy Transport. Even though transitioning passenger cars to battery electric is well underway at this point, we’re right at the beginning of transitioning trucks and semis. But there’s a major wrinkle. While EVs are far more energy efficient than gasoline vehicles, towing a lot of weight takes a major hit on efficiency. Let’s explore the future of electric trucks and just how well batteries stand up to diesel.

What is electricity?

Basics of electricity, electrons, atoms and circuits. Technovation is a tech education nonprofit that inspires people around the world to believe in themselves as leaders and become more confident, curious problem solvers.

Electric Fields: Crash Course Physics #26

As we learn more about electricity, we have to talk about fields. Electric fields may seem complicated, but they’re really fascinating and a crucial part of physics. In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini chats about capacitors, conductors, electric field lines, and how objects with net charge generate electric fields.

Electric Charge: Crash Course Physics #25

Moving on to our unit on the Physics of Electricity, it’s time to talk about charge. What is charge? Is there a positive and negative charge? What do those things mean? In this episode, Shini talks about electrostatic forces, electrical charge, Coulomb’s law, and the force between charged particles.

Electric Vocabulary

We all know the words around electricity, “charge,” “positive,” “battery”, and more. But where do they come from and what do they really mean? Let the history of these words illuminate the physics of electric phenomena.