SEA Electrical has revealed its new SV6 Class 6 battery-electric step van at North America’s largest industrial automobile exhibition, Work Truck Week 2022, that includes vehicle-to-grid functionality and a claimed unladen vary of 274km.
The automotive expertise firm, which was based in Australia in 2012, has rolled out its electrical power-system expertise (SEA-Drive) in city supply and distribution fleets, together with a number of medium and heavy obligation industrial electrical autos – in addition to front-powered faculty buses – in a number of international locations, together with right here, the USA, New Zealand, Thailand, Indonesia and South Africa.
The now California-based firm, which just lately arrange a base in England to spearhead its enlargement into the European market, claims the SV6 EV might be “a game-changer in North America’s step van market.”
On the coronary heart of the Class 6 SV6 EV is the proprietary SEA-Drive power-system, which as a result of its medium-voltage structure and no requirement for lively thermal administration, is claimed to be the “lightest, most cost-effective and most effective system out there within the battery-electric last-mile supply phase”.
Powered by the SEA-Drive 120b power-system, the 250kW/2500Nm SEA SV6 EV covers Class 6 functions with a gross automobile weight ranking of just below 11,800kg.
Its 138kWh battery pack, which is claimed to ship an unladen vary of as much as 274 km, has vehicle-to-grid charging capabilities and is configured for quick charging at as much as 100kW.
The batteries include a five-year guarantee, whereas the drive methods are coated for 3 years or 80,000 km, the corporate mentioned in a press release.
“With the SV6 EV, we convey to the market an answer that has been confirmed by over 1,000,000 miles of real-world use, with the bundle set to revolutionise the necessary step van market throughout North America,” mentioned SEA Electrical founder and chief government officer Tony Fairweather.
“The environmental prospects of the SEA-Drive are easy – our mission is to get rid of roughly 1.1 billion kg of CO2 emissions over the subsequent 5 years.
“When in comparison with a standard inside combustion engined automobile, the advantages prolong far past power efficiencies. From an operational perspective, decrease upkeep and working prices are a given, with the elimination of diesel consumption and fewer transferring components minimising service prices.
“Our customers can totally anticipate to get well any buy worth premium inside a most 5 years, plus this return is commonly bolstered additional relying on state or native initiatives out there.
“With our intensive deployments so far within the step van area, we now have already seen the numerous advantages of SEA Electrical possession – your entire shift to EV is on the horizon, and we provide to {the marketplace} a reliable partnership, as we speak.”
The corporate additional introduced {that a} cellular app and fleet portal would quickly be launched to enrich the onboard telemetry.
Plans are additionally in place to roll out Class 3, 4 and 5 step-van fashions (SEA SV3 EV, SEA SV4 EV and SEA SV5 EV).
Final 12 months, SEA Electrical launched the SEA 300 EV and the SEA 500 EV in Australia, that are bought by a devoted SEA Electrical community of 15 dealerships.
Extra just lately (February 2022), the Australian Renewable Power Company (ARENA) made $127.9 million of the Future Fuels Fund out there to assist native mild and heavy fleet operators shift to new zero-emissions autos (ZEVs) over the subsequent 4 years.
