All-Electric Transport Refrigeration to Hit the Road

A look at Thermo King's Evolve all-electric refrigerated trailer, the first customer demonstration unit to be placed into fleet service.

Thermo King is investing more than $100 million over the next few years in its Evolve portfolio of all-electric transport refrigeration products. WIth this demo unit, customers get to see for themselves how electric refrigeration systems function in the real world, while Thermo King gets data on the trailer's performance in a fleet application.

A standard but slightly modified S600 refrigeration unit is powered primarily by battery but has a diesel backup for the demonstration runs. Customers are using the trailer on multiple operational profiles and various temperature set-points from fresh to deep frozen.

In this video, Matt Srnec, Thermo King's lead electric systems engineer, describes some of the features of trailer to Equipment Editor Jim Park.

What to know more about electric transport refrigeration? Check out these HDT podcast interviews with Matt Srnec:

Leadership Insights: The Pathway to TRU Electrification
https://www.truckinginfo.com/podcasts...

Leadership Insights: Standardizing Emerging TRU Technologies
https://www.truckinginfo.com/podcasts...

Thermo King Transport Refrigeration
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Time Stamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:35 Matt Srnec introduces Evolve
01:23 The battery pack and some of the systems under the trailer
02:19 Batteries are the "fuel tank"
04:12 Starting the unit and the human-machine interface (HMI)
06:19 Shared experience between Thermo King and customers