New York City uses its garbage trucks to plow snow. The Big Crapple is also hot to electrify the entire fleet, and why not? Who should be more climate #woke than the city that never sleeps? But someone is having nightmares after discovering the two are incompatible—electric trucks and plowing snow.
The pipe dream of converting the city’s 6,000 garbage trucks from gas to electric in order to try and limit carbon emissions is “clashing with the limits of electric-powered vehicles,” Gothamist wrote this week. … The city’s current trucks run on diesel and can be fitted with plows in the winter. .. Those trucks cost an astonishing $523,000 each and are to be delivered this spring.
Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch told the NYC city council earlier this month: “We found that they could not plow the snow effectively – they basically conked out after four hours. We need them to go 12 hours. Given the current state of the technology, I don’t see today a path forward to fully electrifying the rear loader portion of the fleet by 2040.”
“We can’t really make significant progress in converting our rear loader fleet until the snow challenges are addressed,” she continued.
Green fantasy says hello to at least one reality. This a problem that’s been popping up more often as EV users discover “how well” electricity and batteries work when it gets cold. Not as well as advertised or not well at all. From not charging to taking longer to charge to undercharging to demand issues that prohibit the use of chargers, heaters, hauling, and the risks of getting stranded in the cold.
And isn’t that ironic? Team Green is obsessed with stopping warming regardless of what it’s called. Everything they say points to fossil fuels heating the planet. To fix that (as if they could), they insist on a technology that works best – for whatever that’s worth – when it’s warmer.
As for New York, it is admitting there are roadblocks. But they are hoping for some technological leap that will allow them to electrify the fleet. Something that will make each truck cost taxpayers more than $523,000 each I suspect.
Of course, a snow-locked New York City would significantly reduce its carbon footprint if that’s the point. No moving transportation for one day is probably the left-wing climate neurotics emissions equivalent of a vast swath of America. Talk about taking one for the team.
So, maybe the solution isn’t spending a half-million plus on plow-capable EV garbage trucks that can’t get the job done. It’s airlifting New York Democrats and their trucks to Mexico’s southern border.
I’m sure they’ll appreciate 8 million whining ‘migrants’ milling about with little more than an attitude and a few EV garbage trucks, and look, no snow.
HT | Valiant News
