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by akadruid1 998 days ago
Battery-electric garbage trucks are proving very successful to due to the short range, stop-start nature of the job.

They have been in service for a while here in the UK, and the operators are happy with their performance: https://chargedevs.com/newswire/dennis-eagles-new-electric-r...

Some of the smaller authorities are 100% switched to electric: https://news.cityoflondon.gov.uk/clean-air-city-corporation-...