The Mack LR Electric garbage truck makes its rounds with 376 kilowatt-hours of total battery capacity and a range of 70 to 80 miles. Rob Nikolewski/San Diego Union-Tribune.

The company’s current garbage trucks, which use diesel fuel, need about 40 gallons for the same amount of work. City of Roses Disposal & Recycling and Portland General Electric's new electric ...

So far, the Mack LR Electric garbage truck has made inroads in the U.S. as a new model. New York City used a demonstrator in 2020 and announced the purchase of seven from that company last year.

The Mack LR Electric garbage truck should be way quieter and far cleaner than its diesel-burning competition. Electric power is the future, even for garbage trucks - CNET X ...

The Peterbilt 520 EV – Oregon’s first fully electric garbage truck – made a test run in outer Northeast Portland on November 11, 2023. James Conner, a driver with COR Disposal & Recycling ...

Gunnar Brunius, vice president and general manager of Mack Trucks’ Lehigh Valley Operations, speaks Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021, about the company’s electric garbage truck at a news conference ...

Electric passenger vehicles are good for reduced emissions. Electric garbage trucks are in a whole other league in terms of savings. And they won't wake you up in the morning.

Mack Trucks shows off the LR BEV, its first battery-electric garbage truck This electric bad boy makes over 4,000 lb-ft of torque and can charge at 150 kW, not bad for a trash truck. Mack Trucks ...

A 9-year-old boy was seriously injured after being hit by a garbage truck in Massachusetts. The Amesbury Fire Department ...

Vehicles like the new Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck represent a beefier type of electric conveyance, and one of the beefiest ones on the block are huge electric garbage trucks from Mack.

Green energy proponents are rushing to complete projects after the recently passed federal budget bill set expiration dates ...

With just a few squeaks, the Peterbilt 520 EV – Oregon’s first fully electric garbage truck – glided onto the streets of outer Northeast Portland to make a test run on a night route.