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A diesel garbage truck costs $50,000 a year to maintain.
An electric garbage truck: Just tire changes.
People have absolutely no idea how electric vehicles will change cities. From here onward cities will continue to get quieter by the year.
And now both sides of the street won't have oil and fluid stains all down the side where these things drive. Can't wait for ours to change over (probably be a cold day in hell though).
Now they just need a quieter robot arm since that's now the loudest part with the quiet EV truck. Would be a fun problem to solve - making a relatively quiet robotic arm to grab the garbage cans.
They are in a lot of large Chinese cities, including Chengdu and Nanjing. Here is a photo that I took today in Qingshanhu Sci-tech City near Hangzhou of an electric street sweeping truck. The big green box behind the cabin is the battery
Diesel garbage trucks could have always been made significantly quieter.
They just didn't want to do it.
Same this is true of lawnmowers, small engines, etc.
The numbers don't lie: EVs now outperform gas vehicles in both reliability and efficiency.
Isn’t it time to make the switch?
It would be much quieter if they wouldn't have the truck play that annoying "whirring" sound through an external speaker.
I worked for autocar, and in 2016 (when I had my first S) I was saying we needed to develop an electric garbage truck, and I was laughed at.
Ever since I was a kid, the garbage truck would wake me up around 5 o’clock in the morning.
How fascinating to learn that it is now going to be a smooth ride through the neighborhood 
The motor might not have any sound but just wait until the brakes start squeaking and the hydraulics start to hiss. My office is right next to the front door and those sounds are the loudest.
Most of the noise is the stupid speaker they have blasting on it to sound like an alien spaceship. I suppose that is somewhat necessary until they are full self driving.
Now they just need to replace that 80 DB bin handler. Yes, you can actually hear the birds when that’s not operating.
I wish! The ones in our neighborhood are extremely loud (and luckily start their routes at about 6am ;) )
electric, diesel, all sounds the same when the high pitched screams of some poor guy getting squished in the back.
Many service machines in urban areas could become electric as they work for short distances. This alone could have a major positive effect
Oregon's cities are going green with electric garbage trucks! 
Portland & Sherwood are slashing emissions & noise with zero-emission fleets. COR Disposal's Peterbilt 520EV & Pride Disposal's trucks are leading the way, backed by PGE’s Drive Change Fund. 
With 35% of OR’s
The main noise from a garbage truck is picking up the trashcan and dumping it in the back. The noise is basically the same.
I work for the company that placed the first EV refuse truck orders to Oshkosh (McNeilus) and deployed the first of its kind to Colorado. Went on a ride along with the driver on its first route and they’re sleek and awfully quiet. Driver finished the route 2 hours early
Laying in bed, I still have that fleeting feeling of missing the school bus after all these years 
How else am I supposed to be reminded that I forgot to take the trash to the curb without hearing it from two blocks away? Thus giving me just enough time to find shorts and flipflops.
Idk about it being "quieter." That high pitched whining sound really hurts the eardrums.
Not real garbage truck, garbage trucks are green, this is a mental illness of millennial grey
I prefer hearing the garbage truck two blocks away so I can rush out my garbage if I forgot to put it out the day before.
I suspect the old fossil fuel diesel business model idle runs, noisily, stationary utility truck motors or portable generators for the duration of the night, pointlessly in neighborhoods, in the style of that United States Institute of Peace accountant, as discovered by the DOGE.
Sucks to be one of those people that only remember to take out your trash when you hear the garbage truck down the street.
My immediate thinking is how much that government has wasted, how corrupt the process was in getting these trucks. Haven't got time to think about how long they will last and how this story will actually end. Bottomline, it's OR, and fuck it.
Yeah but maybe we should be focusing on the massive crime and drug use and low gdp problem here in Oregon instead of this shit. Call me crazy but Oregon is an absolute dumpster fire.
Garbage trucks catch on fire a lot when someone doesn’t dispose of a lithium battery properly. Now this carries a massive battery as well. Electric is good for fleet vehicles but this may go south quick if there is a fire.
I noticed it only collected the dark coloured bin. Am I guessing waste separation at source, so another truck will come collect the other bin?
I worry that they're too quiet, to the point of being dangerous for pedestrians that can't hear them. They do add a noise for this purpose, but it's a high-frequency noise mostly. What about people with high-freq hearing loss? They won't hear it because there's no rumble.
Electrify everything including garbage trucks. Also can’t wait to see the first comment yelling “but wHERE doEs tHe pOwER coMe FrOM?!”
Hey if it is efficient for the area and what it does no complaints. If it is truly a net good for the environment (mining for the battery, life span of and discarding of impact on the environment, along with energy demands being at least comparable) Then replace them all.
Electric trucks are great for quick and frequent stop and go tasks compared to ICE which consumes way too much gas
City of Ocala Florida has a whole fleet. They’ve been leading on many fronts.
Boulder switched to them a number of years ago. So quite you don’t hear them. And the lawn maintenance and landscapers now use electric mowers, blowers, and trimmers. What used to be a horrible racket once a week isn’t even heard now.
Nah I need garbage trucks to be loud so I’m reminded to take the cans to the curb!!
Totally on board with busses and garbage collection trucks being electric...everything else...meh.
can hear gas coming two blocks away of course the driver has to stand on it like the mailman
I bet the cost of trash disposal to a homeowner shot sky high to cover costs too, making ownership even more expensive.
Can't wait till one of THOSE catches fire! It's going to be like Chernobyl.
Never heard of McNealus EVs before.
I wanted to make a joke about the post, but need more info.
that's fancy. here they have the guys take them to the back of the truck not like this one
I am sure they are getting recharged off giant diesel generators. This is what always happens.
Am I the only one that uses the garbage truck sound as a reminder that it's getting really close and I need to take my trash out right now?
This is horrible! I can hear the garbage truck when it gets close cuz of how loud it is and that's a reminder to take it out fuck this truck
Nah see how else am I gonna be like “OH SHIT THE GARBAGE!” when I don’t hear shit coming!?
Agree they are awesome and quiet and not spewing diesel exhaust but they are 2-3x or more the price of diesel garbage trucks so as usual, its an economic decision. More money for schools, police, fire dept or quieter garbage trucks? BEV garbage trucks will get cheaper over time
Spent the last ten years living in Oregon and traveling throughout the state. Trust me, they have way bigger fuckin problems than garbage trucks. The politics there are absolutely mad. And that’s coming from a democrat.