A Traveler
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The problem for trucks and other large vehicles is fuel storage space. The energy density of diesel fuel is THIRTY TIMES GREATER than a Lithium-Ion battery of the same physical size. Battery tech must improve drastically before it will be viable to the long-haul trucker. It ain’t gonna happen because there are other fuel sources (hydrogen, for example) that in the long run will prove much more viable and create much less pollution than EV’s.
We are being sold a bill of goods by the EV nuts that is mostly pie-in-the-sky emotional nonsense. They conveniently ignore the pollution created and the energy used to produce the Lithium-Ion batteries in the first place. Add that to the discussion and EV’s quickly lose their luster.
A comment about the trucker’s life. The nice, neat, “drive for 11 hours and charge for 13 hours” is not realistic. There are many times when a driver will be stuck at a shipper for hours getting loaded or unloaded. He may have to take his 10-hour break at the shipper or a nearby parking lot where there is no charging infrastructure. Drivers cannot count on spending their 10-hour break at a truck stop loaded with those “million watt chargers” every night.
We are being sold a bill of goods by the EV nuts that is mostly pie-in-the-sky emotional nonsense. They conveniently ignore the pollution created and the energy used to produce the Lithium-Ion batteries in the first place. Add that to the discussion and EV’s quickly lose their luster.
A comment about the trucker’s life. The nice, neat, “drive for 11 hours and charge for 13 hours” is not realistic. There are many times when a driver will be stuck at a shipper for hours getting loaded or unloaded. He may have to take his 10-hour break at the shipper or a nearby parking lot where there is no charging infrastructure. Drivers cannot count on spending their 10-hour break at a truck stop loaded with those “million watt chargers” every night.
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