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Here Nathan explores the Farizon H9E truck made by the Geely group. We fast charge, get on the road and check out all the features. If you are looking to learn more about implementing electric trucks in a fleet engage with us at www.zevint.au
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00:14Hey, today we're going to take a look at the Verizon H9e four and a half tonne fully electric truck.
00:23This truck has a dry body box on the back that you might use for courier work or similar
00:28and it's got a proper size battery, a decent charge rate and a fantastic cabin.
00:35So let's take a look around it.
00:50In the back here, you've got your typical kind of square body box.
00:56You've got an aluminium floor, you've got a side door which is quite nice for a truck of this size
01:01and you've clearly got your rear door area as well there.
01:06So you've got about 21 cubic metres of space in the back here and the ability to put pretty much
01:13whatever you want.
01:14So I'm a bit of an electric truck nut and when I get around them, I like to poke and
01:18prod and find out what we can find out.
01:20And so one of my first things to do on a truck like this is try and pop the cabin
01:25and have a look up under the back under here
01:27and see what's going on with the power control systems and on all the rest of it.
01:31And one of the things I found really exciting and interesting and a bit odd is in this truck,
01:36there is no cabin tilt system that I can find.
01:40I might be one there, but I can see the cabin is bolted down onto some rubber bushes,
01:44which is pretty standard, just in under here and that there is no handle to undo it.
01:51So how do you deal with things like servicing and so on?
01:53So behind this panel over here, we've got our washer bottle fill up.
01:58You can see that over there.
01:59You've really got not much else to deal with on a truck like this.
02:03And we'll take a look at what we can see up underneath the truck down in the back here and
02:08see what we can find.
02:09So we'll do our best to have a look inside what's going on.
02:13Obviously, coolant bottle, that's not something we are going to need to touch.
02:15You can see the battery system on the other side there.
02:20And what you'll find is this is a 24-volt system, quite common for little trucks like this,
02:25that they're actually a 24-volt system.
02:28We've also got a dip in here and see if we can see what we can do.
02:31We're going to go into the bowels, right?
02:32Okay, so there's a couple of things that we can see.
02:34So we've got a power distribution module here,
02:36and we can see a lot of high voltage coming in and coming out.
02:40We've got, you see the triple-coloured wires over there.
02:44So that's obviously for the three-phase that's going to run the motor.
02:48So this is the inverter for the motor as well.
02:50We've got some of these larger connectors on here that's coming in from the battery.
02:54So that's going to battery in.
02:56You can see this blanked-off plug at the top here with four outputs.
02:59That is going to be your output for things like a fridge or other electrics,
03:06typically DC output of something like 15 kilowatts.
03:11That's pretty useful.
03:12These are the ones down the front here.
03:14They're going to be running things like the air compressor for the brakes,
03:17the air conditioning pump, and probably something or other else as well that's high voltage output.
03:23So you can see these boxes underneath most of the trucks of this type,
03:28and even cars as well, a power distribution module.
03:31They all have a similar kind of setup where power comes in,
03:34goes out to the motor, goes out to other things,
03:38and pretty much deals with all of the goings-on inside the truck.
03:44We saw before that there's that air brake system in the truck,
03:48and there's a little bit of extra maintenance there,
03:50including things like the water drainage stuff,
03:53so you'll need to become aware of how to deal with that.
03:55It's not hard.
03:56It's just different.
03:57You can see up under there, the battery pack,
04:01quite good clearance and also very central,
04:04so you don't have those problems with the concerns of things like
04:08the side impact area for a side T-bone accident.
04:21One of the things that's nice about these Frizen trucks are their cabins.
04:26Look, you know, sometimes you think about a truck
04:28and its cabin is really not that important,
04:31but they make a really lovely job of this,
04:33and what you might see here on the key is something a little bit familiar.
04:37So this is clearly Geely's commercial brand, Frizen,
04:42and they bring a lot of the tech that goes into some of the things
04:45like the EX5 and the Star and so on into this truck.
04:50You've got quite a nice centre console area,
04:53quite a big back dashboard, lots of features,
04:57and a really nice place to be.
05:00When we boot this truck up,
05:01we can see the dashboard lights up.
05:04It's quite a nice sort of digital dashboard.
05:06It's quite lit up.
05:07And then we've also got our infotainment system,
05:12which is quite, you know, just usable.
05:15Your basic things in there.
05:17On this particular vehicle, it's not yet got Apple CarPlay,
05:20but it does have your Android, Google, Auto style set up,
05:25and you are able to use that.
05:27We've also got, you know, your basic radios and things like that as well.
05:32So nice place to be, reasonable cabin, decent storage around the traps.
05:40There's that extra seat in there as well.
05:46So we've done a bit of a walk around.
05:47Let's go and give it a bit of a charge.
05:50These things sometimes become a bit fun when you go and have a public charge.
05:53So we're going to go and have a go at a BP Pulse Centre.
05:58Let's go for a bit of a drive.
06:04Kick it off with all the beans and bongs.
06:10We've got our drive selector down the bottom here.
06:13Just kick it into the drive.
06:15Foot off the brake.
06:16Tip into the throttle.
06:17The automatic park brake comes straight off.
06:21And we're going to go and throw a bit of a U-turn in this industrial estate that we're in.
06:26It's got a pretty good, decent turning circle.
06:29It's not going to make it right around this area here, but it's pretty good.
06:32We come to the stop there.
06:33You can feel those air brakes do their thing.
06:38And so we then throw it into reverse with the dial in the centre console.
06:41It's giving kind of, I don't know, Hyundai vibes.
06:49And then off we go.
06:54As I said before, it's got a pretty zippy take-off.
06:59It's like any truck.
07:00It's a bit lumpy and bumpy.
07:02But, yeah, we're off and running.
07:05Quite a decent acceleration there.
07:07We don't obviously have a load in today, but it's not going to make that much of a difference when
07:11we're loaded.
07:21Just that last bit when you're coming to a stop that you've got to kind of get used to the
07:29amount of brake pressure that you need to provide when you're coming to the car that's in front of you.
07:34So you kind of have to increase the brake pressure in that final couple of kilometres an hour or those
07:39final metres as you're coming to the next, to the stop.
07:49It doesn't feel too big on the road, width-wise and so on.
07:53There's not a lot of play in the steering wheel for a truck of this nature.
07:56Sometimes you can move the wheel maybe 20 degrees and you'll get no movement on a lot of trucks of
08:02this size, particularly the diesels that are in the marketplace.
08:06But when you're driving this, it is actually reasonably responsive without too much delay.
08:13It's not like a barge or a cruise ship like you might expect.
08:19We've got a late light here, so we're coming to a stop pretty quickly and we'll be the first ones
08:24at the light.
08:26And so again, just coming to a stop at the end, you increase the pressure under your foot under that
08:32last couple of metres.
08:34And now that I've got the hold function on, I've taken my foot off the brakes.
08:38I don't have to sit there fighting the air brakes, which are actually a lot more pushback than a typical
08:43hydraulic system.
08:44I quite like the air conditioning system.
08:47Whilst it's a simple fan speed and temperature dial kind of arrangement without even the number of degrees that it's
08:56aiming for,
08:57it's more of a digital version of our old school slider bar that we might have had years ago.
09:08And an advanced speed that we can set up and down, aircon on and on.
09:12So we've come on down to BP at the Port of Brisbane.
09:17And we're going to do a little charge session here.
09:20So we've got the charge plugged in down here.
09:24And we've got ourselves our BP Pulse tritium unit.
09:29Look, you can see I'm using the wrong side of the system.
09:33And that's because the first crack, the other gun wouldn't work.
09:37So we've finally got the second gun working and it's turning out a decent charge rate.
09:42We've got somewhere in the order of 90 odd kilowatt charge at the moment.
09:46And this is a 100 kilowatt charger.
09:48Well, it's a 150 kilowatt charger.
09:50They've only decided to put 100 kilowatts of power into it.
09:53And so we're getting the majority of that right now.
09:56So you can't complain.
09:58We're going to throw a little bit in this so that we can go and do some of the testing
10:01that we're up to.
10:02And we'll see how the whole truck runs.
10:11You can see the battery in underneath.
10:18You can see the air brake system on the side there.
10:22And really interestingly, you can have a look at how the motor is mounted onto the axle.
10:28It really helps to improve efficiency.
10:35You can see this vehicle has a big box on the back of it.
10:38Right just for all of the activity it's up to.
10:41And you can see that motor, how it provides gearbox to the air freckly to the air.
10:48Removing the need for a tail shaft.
10:50And removing the need for all the other bits and pieces that go with that.
10:55Reduces the amount of powertrain waste that there is there.
10:57Again, you can see on this side how the battery is really central to the chassis.
11:03And it's going to really take care of any concerns that people have sometimes with side impact on batteries that
11:11are typically on this size of truck.
11:13This four and a half tonne size truck that come out of China.
11:16They typically have a battery that is slung on the sides.
11:21This one is slung in the middle.
11:23Here's an interesting safety feature of the H9E.
11:27So you open the door and it automatically starts putting on the hazard lights.
11:33I guess that makes sense particularly in town centres.
11:36Because you're going to start to jump out of the truck and it might be a bit wide and so
11:41on.
11:41So an interesting approach from Verizon.
11:45We've done just on 13 minutes of charging and all of that has been at just around 95 kilowatts.
11:52And we put 20 kilowatt hours in.
11:54So I'm pretty happy with that.
11:56That's what we really needed.
11:57Just a quick splurt whilst we were heading off to do some other things.
12:01And it's going to give us enough driving for the time that we're here.
12:04So we're going to stop that session.
12:07We're going to hit the old stop on over here.
12:10Stop session.
12:11That's going to knock it on the head.
12:14We've brought it from about 20% to about 40%.
12:18And we'll disconnect the gun.
12:21Get it back.
12:22Get on the road.
12:23So if we talk about a couple of the driving impressions we've got from this truck.
12:26It's a car licence, four and a half tonne truck.
12:30It's got reasonable power steering.
12:33That's quite nice.
12:34One of the big differences with this truck is it's got air brakes.
12:37So some of the four and a half tonne trucks that are out there just have normal hydraulic brakes like
12:43you might have in a car.
12:44It's one thing that you do need to get used to.
12:46When you're regenerative braking, it's not a lot different to say the Verizon Supervan.
12:50It'll bring energy back in.
12:52But when you're starting to get at lower speeds or harder braking that's beyond regenerative,
12:57then you start to feel those air brakes.
12:59And it's about modulating the brake pedal.
13:01It takes a little bit to get used to but not a lot and still makes this truck very drivable
13:06for your normal driver as opposed to needing to be a truck driver with a heavy truck licence.
13:12We've got decent acceleration.
13:14In fact, I haven't quite seen a difference between the eco mode and the standard mode from an acceleration point
13:21of view.
13:21It goes pretty hot, particularly off the line.
13:24As I said before, the regen is pretty reasonable.
13:26We've got a fantastic feel to that first level of regen.
13:31And then that second level of regen, when you tip into the brake, comes on well.
13:37It does have a regen button and I've got to explore that a bit more because at the moment I
13:42can't see a difference between modes.
13:45And unlike the Supervan where there's three modes for regen, there's nothing coming up on the dashboard saying which mode
13:51I'm in.
13:52So I'm guessing that that's going to be something to learn a bit more about.
13:56We've also got a hill hold or an auto hold mode.
13:59So come to a stop with that button on and the vehicle will hold.
14:03You can come off the brakes.
14:04That's kind of nice, particularly with these air brakes on the truck.
14:06That'll make you feel more confident when you're sitting at a set of lights waiting for those lights to change.
14:12And you can tip into the throttle to go to that next set of lights, no doubt, in the city
14:16as you're driving it around.
14:17In this four and a half tonne arrangement, you've got a hundred kilowatt hour battery.
14:22So if we take that 36, let's say, 35, 36 kilowatt hours per hundred kilometres.
14:29And we take that hundred kilowatt hour battery, what we're talking about there is probably the thick end of 250
14:37kilometres and maybe even more of real world delivery range for this truck.
14:43So that's pretty reasonable compared to a lot of the other vehicles which have about an 80 kilowatt hour battery
14:49and they use a lot more energy.
14:51And so they're down in the below 200 kilometres real world range.
14:55So this opens out a lot of use cases for this vehicle compared to some of the others.
15:02The eight and a half tonne version of this truck is available in a larger battery, a couple of different
15:07size larger batteries.
15:08And so that provides up to 162 kilowatt hours.
15:13That's going to be obviously for a bigger truck, but it's going to give you, again, a similar level and
15:18maybe even larger range as the truck uses more energy.
15:21So this is a pretty cool arrangement.
15:24It's really stepped it on to the next level and provides those inner city four and a half tonne truck
15:31operators a new option for real world electrification all round.
15:36This is a pretty good balanced product.
15:39Some likes and dislikes.
15:41Generally, I like most of it.
15:43It's actually a really good package.
15:45It's pretty comfortable.
15:47And I'm pretty impressed by the efficiency, which I think is a major part that no one talks about.
15:51I will always talk about efficiency in electric vehicles.
15:54There's no point having a big battery if you're using it all for silliness.
15:57You may as well have a smaller battery with better efficiency and it can be achieved.
16:02Probably things that I'm still getting used to are things like air brakes on a truck that's this size, but
16:08that's something to learn.
16:09That's a driver's behavior, just like learning regen.
16:12The charging point here on the passenger side, just behind the front wheel.
16:17And look, there's a couple of things I like about this.
16:19I like that there's no door.
16:20Most of the other products in this marketplace have a door and that's kind of a pain in the butt.
16:24And then it's got these rubber boots that are sort of covering up the plugs.
16:29And I've got to say, I'm not sure if I like them.
16:31If you get them back in the wrong order, they don't go in properly.
16:35So you can see here, if you put in the Type 2 first, then the CCS plug can't go on.
16:41So you have to go the other way around.
16:42That's a bit of a pain in the backside, depending on your charging type.
16:45And I guess you've got to cover it up some way, or do you?
16:49That's a good question.
16:50The charge port down there and the rubber boots, I don't know what the best solution is there.
16:56I'm a Tesla guy originally, so ultimately the way that they do it is, in my opinion, the best.
17:01But trucks are a little bit different.
17:03Having Apple CarPlay in time will be useful, but we've seen this happen with the other Geely product around the
17:08traps,
17:09where it's become as an upgrade.
17:10That's just happened on the EX5.
17:12And so that might happen here as well.
17:14I think all around, one of the exciting parts here is the price.
17:17Whilst I haven't got exact prices for you today, my understanding is that this truck here, as it stands, is
17:23well below $100,000.
17:25And that is absolutely amazing for what we've seen in the marketplace.
17:29That's with box, that's ready on the road, well below $100,000.
17:33So this is starting to bring us towards a parity place.
17:36And you throw the fuel costs in there, and you're getting very, very close.
17:40And the Verizon H9e steps the whole 4.5 ton electric truck game further on.
17:46There's no doubt that this has got more refinement, better engineering, and overall a better package than some of the
17:52previous products.
17:53And I think it's purely because of the timing of the delivery of this vehicle.
17:57I'm sure those other brands will start to refresh their vehicles and take on things like electrified axles, centrally mounted
18:03batteries,
18:04and look for some of those efficiencies that come along the way.
18:08So the H9e.
18:09Here we go.
18:10This is the new generation of electric trucks.
18:12This is the new generation of electric trucks.
18:13This is the new generation of electric trucks.
18:14This is the new generation of electric trucks.
18:15This is the new generation of electric trucks.
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