As per Electrive, each of the five E-Tech Magnums can haul up to 22 tons of cargo 80 kilometers apart and they will complete several trips totaling 360 kilometers per day or 88.000 kilometers in a year.

To optimize the routes, Renault engineers used something called Range Simulator to take into account energy requirements for each truck based on things like load and topography. Thus, they concluded that a full overnight charging session will provide enough power for most of the trip, while a 45-50 minutes DC charging stop (which includes the drivers' break) will offer more than enough juice to complete the daily route.

The French truck maker installed two 360kW chargers from Power Electronics, each with two charging points, to power the battery-electric heavy vehicles. While it currently uses five trucks, the company could increase the number to seven, if necessary.

Bruno Blin, President of Renault Trucks, said that "at Renault Trucks, this kind of project is helping us build a new transport model. Our target for 2030 is to electrify our logistics on a huge scale, with all flows between our production sites using electric vehicles."

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