Preparing your shop to service electric trucks

As the buzz about electric trucks continues to build, early adopters are rethinking their shop tooling, configurations, and technician training requirements to accommodate such vehicles.

While the first fleets to deploy electric trucks are largely relying on dealers or full-service leasing companies to maintain those trucks, there may come a time when they wish to pull that work in-house. But the shop of tomorrow will look vastly different than today’s, from the hand tools used by technicians to the service bays designed to service electric trucks.

“I would say getting the charging stations ready has been a bigger operation than getting our technicians and tooling ready,” said Mike Hasinec, vice-president of maintenance with Penske Truck Leasing.

Penske has been setting up its Southern California dealerships to service electric trucks. Those locations have had 150 kW fast chargers installed in the yard, with smaller 10 kW chargers installed in dedicated service bays inside, so trucks can be charged while being worked on.

 

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Posted Date : November 30 2020