All-Electric Truck Completes Milestone Canberra-to-Sydney Haul, Cutting 84% in Fuel Costs

The New Energy Transport electric truck – credit, released by NET

A green-geared milestone was just set in Australia as a company saw its all-electric haul truck go from the capital of Canberra to Sydney on a single charge.

Carrying tons of toilet paper, the final mile deliveries were made with electric vehicles too, keeping emissions down, and suppliers and demanders clear of the suffocating prices of diesel.

Built by New Energy Transport (NET) the Windrose semi-trailer truck has a range of 416 miles at 49 combined tons, and boasts 1,400 horsepower.

Reporting on the maiden voyage, Australian Truck Radio wrote that the Windrose delivered an 84% reduction in fuel costs while proving that intercity routes can be greened up with a little forward planning thanks to a fast charging time of just 1 hour.

It also made the 186-mile trip 25 minutes faster because of the vehicle’s speedy acceleration during the inclined sections of the route.

It’s the second demonstration of the Windrose’s capabilities, as back in November it set a world record for the longest single-charge long haul delivery—a trip to your grocery store short of 300 miles.

“This delivery ushers in a new era for Australian road freight where electric heavy trucks are not just cheaper and faster, they unshackle Australia from volatile global oil markets, dramatically strengthening our supply chain resilience,” said Daniel Bleakley, Co-CEO, New Energy Transport.

Collecting the thoughts and comments on the achievement, Australian Truck Radio quoted John Grimes, CEO at Smart Energy Council, as saying that every liter of diesel the nation saves on highways by electrifying trucks “is one we keep for farmers.”

“Australia runs on road freight so if diesel stops, we stop and starve. Electrifying trucking strengthens our energy security, and we’re ready—we already build electric trucks and charging infrastructure, and can power it all with sun and wind.”NET envisions completing its pilot haul fleet of Windroses by mid-2026. All-Electric Truck Completes Milestone Canberra-to-Sydney Haul, Cutting 84% in Fuel Costs

Read More........→June 05, 2026

First Quantum Battery Prototype Marks Big Step for Technology Expected to Change the World

The prototype quantum battery – credit, CSIRO

Australian researchers have developed and tested the world’s first quantum battery.

Their prototype is far from anything that will be a perspective power source in an EV or storage facility, but the experiment revealed some important directions for future research.

A theoretical concept since 2013, the prototype was charged wirelessly with a laser, one of the special properties that quantum mechanics in battery technology promises if it can be properly understood and harnessed.

Lead researcher Dr. James Quach of CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency which led the study on the device, said it’s the first quantum battery ever made that performs a full charge-discharge cycle.

Dr. Quach explained that in society today, the larger the battery, the longer the charge time.

“That’s why your mobile phone takes about 30 minutes to charge and your electric car takes overnight to charge,” he said, adding that in contrast, “quantum batteries have this really peculiar property where the larger they are, the less time they take to charge.”

Less time really is an almost worthless descriptor in this case, because the prototype created by CSIRO was fully charged within a few quadrillionths of a second.

The problem is that the discharge rate was a few nanoseconds, which despite being 6 orders of magnitude longer, could be of no use to anyone now. Quach provided some interesting relative comparisons to help mere mortals conceptualize why this could be a world-changing innovation if improved.

If it takes 30 minutes to fully charge a mobile phone, and it too had a discharge rate equal to 6 orders of magnitude, that means it wouldn’t need to be recharged even after a decade of use.

“What we need to do next is… to increase the storage time,” Quach said, touching on this point. “You want your battery to hold charge longer than a few nanoseconds if you want to be able to talk to someone on a mobile phone.”

Additionally, the prototype doesn’t hold enough voltage to power anything substantial.

While this might all sound rather pointless, another, non-involved expert in the development of quantum batteries, University of Queensland Professor Andrew White, told the Guardian that the experiment was a huge success in getting the technology off the drawing board and into the real world for the first time.People would be far more likely to adopt EVs if they could be fully-charged in few seconds, even if their range was severely reduced. First Quantum Battery Prototype Marks Big Step for Technology Expected to Change the World

Read More........→April 16, 2026