First Mass-Produced Electric Truck Unveiled (nhk.or.jp)

AmiMoJo shares a report from NHK WORLD: Japan's Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus has unveiled what it says is the world's first mass-produced electric truck, as automakers around the world go all out to develop cars that run on battery power. The vehicle can carry about 3 tons of cargo and travel about 100 kilometers on a single charge. The truck, unveiled on Thursday, will be used by Japan's largest convenience store chain, Seven-Eleven. Seven-Eleven President Kazuki Furuya says some people complain about the noise delivery vehicles make, and says he is very impressed at how quiet the electric truck is.

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An people will complain

[Kokuyo]

It's too quiet. How can pedestrians keep being absorbed in their smartphones if you can't hear traffic anymore over the music you're playing on your headphones?

Too bad you didn't link to any HTML

[drinkypoo]

When I clicked the link, all I got was a page that made it clear that it was a Javascript site, not a HTML site.

Here are three links which are higher quality than the garbage you linked to this story: one two three. Is this site news for nerds, or dick-jerking for people who don't care if the web goes to shit? Clearly, the latter.

Milk floats

[Anonymous Coward]

Electric trucks were in common use from about 1900 till about 1970:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbilt_Electric_Trucks

Re:First?

[Rei]

Not even close to "first electric truck of the century". Some companies have been at this for ages. Smith Electric Vehicles, for example, started with electric delivery trucks in the 1920s, switched to milk floats, then in the modern era back to full-sized electric delivery trucks.