This conversion is simply never going to happen. In the intermodal/rail industry that I work in we are dependent on trucking company providers to make short hauls off the ports and our railyards at the origin and destination. These truckers are often small companies or owner operators who run good used equipment that is very low priced, easy to maintain, and gets the job done. While used prices are higher in CA you can still buy a decent used truck to haul containers off the rail yard and ports for under $20,000. And if CA has their way they will ban these trucks and force truckers to buy a $400-$500,000 electric truck? That requires replacing $100,000 batteries every 3-5 years? And a 150 mile range? This is insane and anyone with half a brain would quickly recognize that.
There is another cost, too. The potential for a complete inability to deliver food and other necessities due to being unable to recharge those battery powered vehicles during a major weather crisis with the grid going down. In that kind of a crisis, if lasting for more than a couple days, the cost would be economic chaos and could even include loss of life. How do you quantify that?
Now that is one I did not think about and should have, living in Wyoming and having I-80 closed days at a time in the blizzard season which is about 9 months long. Well and the fact that we have almost zero charging infrastructure anyway.
Good info for sure. Thanks. Oh hell what’s another trillón and a few more decades of high inflation, all for the ridiculous cause of pretending man can control the climate. What the bureaucrats try and mandate this bs thru….
I think they under estimated ev maintenance cost. While an ev does come in lower on routine maintenance, they go through tire much faster and when they do breakdown wow those bills are high, and it's hard to find shops that work on them.
I plan on actually reading the thing later on after work, being in the business I am, (Heavy industrial service), we travel a lot, and we are often hauling tool trailers that weigh 20k or more.
How long before the refers are all electric too?
The diesel to electric conversion makes a better Babylon Bee article than anything else.
Keep your N14's, boys. We're gonna need 'em.
This conversion is simply never going to happen. In the intermodal/rail industry that I work in we are dependent on trucking company providers to make short hauls off the ports and our railyards at the origin and destination. These truckers are often small companies or owner operators who run good used equipment that is very low priced, easy to maintain, and gets the job done. While used prices are higher in CA you can still buy a decent used truck to haul containers off the rail yard and ports for under $20,000. And if CA has their way they will ban these trucks and force truckers to buy a $400-$500,000 electric truck? That requires replacing $100,000 batteries every 3-5 years? And a 150 mile range? This is insane and anyone with half a brain would quickly recognize that.
There is another cost, too. The potential for a complete inability to deliver food and other necessities due to being unable to recharge those battery powered vehicles during a major weather crisis with the grid going down. In that kind of a crisis, if lasting for more than a couple days, the cost would be economic chaos and could even include loss of life. How do you quantify that?
Now that is one I did not think about and should have, living in Wyoming and having I-80 closed days at a time in the blizzard season which is about 9 months long. Well and the fact that we have almost zero charging infrastructure anyway.
Good info for sure. Thanks. Oh hell what’s another trillón and a few more decades of high inflation, all for the ridiculous cause of pretending man can control the climate. What the bureaucrats try and mandate this bs thru….
I think they under estimated ev maintenance cost. While an ev does come in lower on routine maintenance, they go through tire much faster and when they do breakdown wow those bills are high, and it's hard to find shops that work on them.
Good piece yet again.
Superduty for the win!
I agree. And I wonder if insurance costs were figured in, and the short lifetime of EV batteries compared to the long lifetime of a diesel truck?
I plan on actually reading the thing later on after work, being in the business I am, (Heavy industrial service), we travel a lot, and we are often hauling tool trailers that weigh 20k or more.