{"id":91231,"date":"2019-05-23T12:45:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T19:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/seattle-makes-history-with-electric-garbage-truck"},"modified":"2019-05-23T12:45:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T19:45:39","slug":"seattle-makes-history-with-electric-garbage-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/seattle-makes-history-with-electric-garbage-truck","title":{"rendered":"Seattle makes history with electric garbage truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/seattle-makes-history-with-electric-garbage-truck.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite this, electric garbage trucks are still few and far between. BYD\u2019s main competitor is Motiv Power Systems, which has sold small fleets of class 8 side-loading garbage trucks to Los Angeles and Sacramento, California. Wrightspeed, which was also making hybrid-electric garbage trucks\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2015\/06\/heavy-duty-hybrids-cleaner-emissions-when-picking-up-the-trash\/\">featured in this article from 2015<\/a>\u2014appears to have gone dormant, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2016\/08\/is-elon-musk-serious-about-the-tesla-semi\/\">a contract<\/a> to supply the New Zealand cities of Auckland and Wellington. And recently, Volvo announced a battery electric garbage truck, the FE Electric, although it appears to be limited to the European market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2019\/05\/seattle-makes-history-with-electric-garbage-truck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite this, electric garbage trucks are still few and far between. BYD\u2019s main competitor is Motiv Power Systems, which has sold small fleets of class 8 side-loading garbage trucks to Los Angeles and Sacramento, California. Wrightspeed, which was also making hybrid-electric garbage trucks\u2014featured in this article from 2015\u2014appears to have gone dormant, despite a contract [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}