The brakes assuning they’re pneumatic still would still make a lot of noise, I was thinking it’s great because you won’t hear the truck coming for 45 minutes before it gets to you.
The battery pack wouldn’t be amongst the crushing section of the truck so the fires wouldn’t be much worse then the 900 litres of diesel and 150 litres of hydraulic oil that could go up in a regular rubbish truck.
My only concern as with all things electric for a solution is are we just pushing the environmental impact up the road. Will all these batteries become a hazard, will the increased requirements to charge all these vehicles increase power plant emissions worsening the effects of coal over regular vehicle emissions?
Especially when we look at modern diesel engines with a DEF system pushing out mostly water and nitrogen out the exhaust with very little NOx