I have contacts and friends who work in logistics, one of them for a UK company. Has to manage truckers all day, told me they got an electric truck for a government grant to show they were green.
Out of all their trucks, some quite old, that electric one broke down the most. The tech and infrastructure ain't there yet for electric heavy transport vehicles. They're better off investing in hydrogen powered vehicles for that if they want to no longer be a slave to OPEC.
They're better off investing in hydrogen powered vehicles for that if they want to no longer be a slave to OPEC.
Or the West could just stop sabotaging its own energy production. The Trump presidency showed that we can break free of OPEC's chains without giving the green grifters a penny. Hydrogen is still a good idea though. If we can make that work we'll have more energy than we'll ever need. Of course the left wouldn't be able to use it to control the populace, which is why it's not a priority.
Pretty much it's the same reason I'm a major proponent of Nuclear Fusion research.
We can easily get by on the non renewable sources we have now for centuries to come but the advantages and resources available by utilising hydrogen and nuclear fusion eclipses all the issues the left are 'worried about' with none of their costs.
That and if we are able to fully utilise nuclear fusion, we are getting railguns and militarised lasers very quickly after since one of the biggest issues is powering them and that solves it almost overnight.
The Ford F150 Lightning sold like a lead balloon. Turns out those impressive range numbers go to shit if you're carrying anything heavier than groceries.
And that's just a pickup. Anything bigger like freight or heavy industry will run afoul of the square-cube law dealing with XBOX HUEG batteries just trying to last a few hours.
Maybe a mild Northeastern Yankee summer. Down South, the 100+ degree summers will murder the lifespan of batteries, assuming they don't just spontaneously combust.
Yep, without a tranny between the engine and the wheels, anything from higher speed and pulling weight to bad weather is gonna drain the battery a lot faster.
Speaking from what I have heard through him, my dad sells schools busses. The company he sells for offers almost any fuel option you can think of, from diesel and gasoline powered, to CNG powered, to propane powered, to electric busses. And he has said that while he has had a few school districts buy electric busses for fixed routes, he has sold more of the flex-fuel busses (the CNG and propane) than he has electric.
He also said some of the people who were interested in the electric were pretty much only interested under the idea that they could make money off of it. The specific story he told was that this one school district thought that they could have the busses charging at certain times, and then sell the electricity from the batteries back to the grid at times when the price was high and/or on weekends and summer break. Only to immediately abandon the idea and go with traditional busses when my dad informed them that doing that would count as hours against the battery for the purpose of the warranty and you would run through your warranty in a matter of months.
CNG's always been real popular for fleet vehicles because it's a lot easier for the fleet operator to use their existing natural gas infrastructure to refuel. So any benefit they'd get from electric they can also get from gas.
I briefly looked at the CNG Civics back when I lived someplace that had gas. The main disadvantage was half the trunk was taken up by the larger CNG tank since it's less dense than gasoline (which would be a non-issue for a bus).
The engines also last forever because natural gas burns so clean.
Electric busses have been causing hard-ons for lefties for years, as it combines their green virtue signaling with their adoration of public transit. Back in 2022, for example, Michigan spent $54 million on a bunch of electric school busses, for $400k a piece.
It's only going to get worse and worse, both the desire for them, and the fallout. Just two days ago, a bus company in the UK pulled a bunch of electric busses from service after one caught fire.
It's very easy to tell the difference between an EV fire and an ICE fire: ICE fires don't take upwards of 20,000 gallons of water to put out, nor do they spontaneously reignite.
Funny side note from the news in Germany today: EVs aren't even good enough for their staunches advocates. The far-left socialist mayor of Hamburg got rid of his 120,000€ EV because range, especially in winter, sucks ass.
The tweet is not in english, the primary language of this site. I guess it shows an electric bus being charged by a diesel generator, but what's the context? There's no fucking way a generator of that size is cheaper than grid power.
I have contacts and friends who work in logistics, one of them for a UK company. Has to manage truckers all day, told me they got an electric truck for a government grant to show they were green.
Out of all their trucks, some quite old, that electric one broke down the most. The tech and infrastructure ain't there yet for electric heavy transport vehicles. They're better off investing in hydrogen powered vehicles for that if they want to no longer be a slave to OPEC.
Or the West could just stop sabotaging its own energy production. The Trump presidency showed that we can break free of OPEC's chains without giving the green grifters a penny. Hydrogen is still a good idea though. If we can make that work we'll have more energy than we'll ever need. Of course the left wouldn't be able to use it to control the populace, which is why it's not a priority.
Pretty much it's the same reason I'm a major proponent of Nuclear Fusion research.
We can easily get by on the non renewable sources we have now for centuries to come but the advantages and resources available by utilising hydrogen and nuclear fusion eclipses all the issues the left are 'worried about' with none of their costs.
That and if we are able to fully utilise nuclear fusion, we are getting railguns and militarised lasers very quickly after since one of the biggest issues is powering them and that solves it almost overnight.
The Ford F150 Lightning sold like a lead balloon. Turns out those impressive range numbers go to shit if you're carrying anything heavier than groceries.
And that's just a pickup. Anything bigger like freight or heavy industry will run afoul of the square-cube law dealing with XBOX HUEG batteries just trying to last a few hours.
They also go to shit if its any season colder than summer.
Or if you decide to go fast.
My friend has an electric motorcycle and that's an ongoing logistical concern for him.
Maybe a mild Northeastern Yankee summer. Down South, the 100+ degree summers will murder the lifespan of batteries, assuming they don't just spontaneously combust.
If you dent/hit the battery compartment with a small stone it can also explode!
Or any season warmer than summer
Yep, without a tranny between the engine and the wheels, anything from higher speed and pulling weight to bad weather is gonna drain the battery a lot faster.
Speaking from what I have heard through him, my dad sells schools busses. The company he sells for offers almost any fuel option you can think of, from diesel and gasoline powered, to CNG powered, to propane powered, to electric busses. And he has said that while he has had a few school districts buy electric busses for fixed routes, he has sold more of the flex-fuel busses (the CNG and propane) than he has electric.
He also said some of the people who were interested in the electric were pretty much only interested under the idea that they could make money off of it. The specific story he told was that this one school district thought that they could have the busses charging at certain times, and then sell the electricity from the batteries back to the grid at times when the price was high and/or on weekends and summer break. Only to immediately abandon the idea and go with traditional busses when my dad informed them that doing that would count as hours against the battery for the purpose of the warranty and you would run through your warranty in a matter of months.
CNG's always been real popular for fleet vehicles because it's a lot easier for the fleet operator to use their existing natural gas infrastructure to refuel. So any benefit they'd get from electric they can also get from gas.
I briefly looked at the CNG Civics back when I lived someplace that had gas. The main disadvantage was half the trunk was taken up by the larger CNG tank since it's less dense than gasoline (which would be a non-issue for a bus).
The engines also last forever because natural gas burns so clean.
Electric busses have been causing hard-ons for lefties for years, as it combines their green virtue signaling with their adoration of public transit. Back in 2022, for example, Michigan spent $54 million on a bunch of electric school busses, for $400k a piece.
It's only going to get worse and worse, both the desire for them, and the fallout. Just two days ago, a bus company in the UK pulled a bunch of electric busses from service after one caught fire.
It's very easy to tell the difference between an EV fire and an ICE fire: ICE fires don't take upwards of 20,000 gallons of water to put out, nor do they spontaneously reignite.
I need to read Italian more often, I could barely understand that.
Funny side note from the news in Germany today: EVs aren't even good enough for their staunches advocates. The far-left socialist mayor of Hamburg got rid of his 120,000€ EV because range, especially in winter, sucks ass.
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Que?
What the fuck does this mean?
The tweet is not in english, the primary language of this site. I guess it shows an electric bus being charged by a diesel generator, but what's the context? There's no fucking way a generator of that size is cheaper than grid power.
I assumed it was Greta-related.