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Who We Are:
Edison Motors is a privately owned Canadian Clean Technology Company That Manufactures Electric Semi Trucks.
Dec 2021: Edison Motors was announced to the public
July 2022: Edison built North Americaโs first electric logging truck.
Oct 2022: Edison completed prototype testing
Nov 2022: Edison Motors began building their first production truck: an Edison L750
Edison Motors aims to produce Electric & Hybrid Vocational Trucks & EV Conversion Kits that deliver fuel savings without compromise.
Edison Motors was founded by Chace Barber and Eric Little who entered their business partnership in 2016 after graduating university and starting a trucking company with a 1969 Kenworth 5 axle Logging Truck (Old Blue). They began hauling logs in Merritt, BC. moved to hauling mining equipment into the Yukon and then expanded to moving drilling rigs in Alberta before returning back to BC Logging.
The business grew, more trucks were added and due to the frustration in serviceability of newer trucks the partners started rebuilding older trucks from the frame rails up to use in their own trucking operation instead of buying new truck. The business grew and expanded to hauling and installing power generation systems. In 2019 this added business aspect and growth to taking on the role of engineering and designing off-grid solar hybrid power systems. After their first successful project design and construction of a first nations community in northern BC Canada, Eric and Chace started to engineering process of a diesel-electric semi truck using the same principles.
After reserving a Tesla semi in 2017 and not receiving the truck for 4 years, in 2021 they decided to start building their own electric trucks because that was quicker than waiting for the Tesla delivery and resulted in designing of a more robust truck tailored to the logging and heavy vocational industries their trucking company operated in.
The Edison Truck is the result of a trucking company who remanufactured classic logging trucks with their engineering expertise of off-grid hybrid power systems. It is the aim of Edison Team to have the reliability and serviceability of a classic semi with the efficiency, power, and emissions standards of an electric truck.
Building The Truck Of The Future With The Quality Of The Past.
We only want to sell you the truck once.
Much like the Pacific trucks of the 1960โs and 1970โs. The Edison trucks are designed to be able to last, we understand the more uptime the truck sees and the longer itโs service life the better the Return on Investment is in the truck.
This is Edison Motors goal and philosophy, build the futures electric truck to run efficient as possible while being as simple to maintain as possible.
We are truckers, building truck, for truckers.
We let the engineers decided what components the truck needs for the electrical side, then we have experienced mechanics tell us what parts and being used and where those parts are going.
Our mechanics are use to working on logging trucks that are broken down in the middle of the bush, they know theyโre the ones who will have to go repair them. We believe that nobody is better are make sure the truck is reliable and easy to fix as the ones who have to lay in snow at -40โ below or in spring mud.
Donโt kid yourself, these are the most efficient & modern trucks you can possible buy on the market today, but theyโre made to be fixed in the bush. Our truck is high tech so your shop doesnโt have to be.
When your Edison Truck is delivered you can be sure you wonโt need to go truck shopping again until you want to expand the fleet
In The Shop
Itโs a fact in the vocational world that trucks are going to break-down. Off-road heavy hauling and logging in Canada beats up equipment. Edison plans for this by engineering our parts and equipment to make them as easy to service as possible for your mechanics.
Edison has a multi-layer process to achieve this goal:
* The first step is early involvement of mechanics into the design process, making sure experienced mechanics look at the design for serviceability
* Using commonly sourced parts, we try wherever possible to limit any custom built parts and opt for the common aftermarket parts companies use. This makes sure when something breaks you can go into any parts store and have the piece you need to get back on the road
* no fault codes, if there is a fault our computer will tell you exact what the check engine light means
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Write down ALL these assembly challenges and design/engineer to eliminate them. Keep in mind that a working truck broken in the field will have to be worked on in the field.
Amazing video. Very Canadian hospitality there!! ๐๐
1:17 Please drop merch associated, freaking hilarious antics.
You guys rock!
Damn drills, heres to a quick recovery, hate to see what you did to the drill lol
I dont think that CAT recommends loctite on flywheel bolts. Dont know about modern C9 engines, but 3400 series and c-10/12 they recommend clean engine oil, pin time the flywheel and torque them to spec
Will the generator/motor's engine starting capability be utilized?
If so, the conventional starting motor and most of its support system could be eliminated.
Totally cool
Wearing a hoodie? This week itโs been brutally hot out – like upper 80s all week โฆ. Ya all behind on editing?
First ,use step drills for sheet metal. Second electric drills are arm and hand breaking monsters, get a reduced speed air drill for straight bit drilling. The air drill will stall if it grabs instead of breaking you. All of you keep up the good work and stay safe.
Such a close working team at Edison Motors.๐
Amazing things can be accomplished when you have guys pulling together.
bring AvE into this! Publicity and the guy might know a thing or two
600 lbs = 272 kg
hello. I was just watching an episode of Highway Thru Hell and i noticed that you operated a skid loader, unloading groceries out of a semi truck for reliable towing
Hey now I saw your arm under the truck yea now this guy's heart , am I gunna have to come up there and do safety man to keep you guys alive let's tighten it up on the safety in the shop guys and moving stuff jeez I'm gonna git a hard a track .
Just like the pottery scene in ghost whil4mount84ghe flywheel.
As a rule for anything larger than 1/2 inch in sheet stock, if at all possible, I use a pannel-punch set.
You get better placment precision, a clean cutout and it's safer and easier; especially if you need to make multiple holes.
That genny can probably power a small village.
0 accident free days oh no๐ฎ๐ฎ
What is your favorite HiP song in the shop?
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Im worried about the generator when the engine is running… the generator very likely to start hammering against the frame with those clearances
1:10 get yourself some longer bolt that are the same size and thread pitch of the flywheel bolts cut the head off them and grind a slot in them and use them as guide bolt makes putting the flywheel on alot easier
I'm not a trucker, a logger, a mechanic or an electrical engineer, but hear me out.
In general, you drive an empty truck up the mountain, and you drive a loaded truck down the mountain. It takes X amount of energy (electricity) to drive the truck up the mountain. At the top, however, you have the truck's X potential PLUS the potential energy of the load of logs…maybe doubling, tripling that of the empty truck?
If you have really efficient regenerative braking, it should be possible to return, loaded, to the bottom of the mountain with more energy in the batteries than you started with when you were empty at the bottom at the beginning of the run.
Does that make sense?
Canadians, the nicest people in the world, until you cross their line. Then, the Geneva Conventions become the Geneva Suggestions. ๐จ๐ฆ
Will it work like diesel submarine ?? Under water on batteries and up on diesel engine ??
I like the Ghost recreation with the flywheel mounting.
Leviticus 21:16-19 KJV
"Islands in the stream" "NO!" That is probably the heartiest belly laugh I've had in a long while! ๐ Thank you!