As Maine considers following Massachusetts and Vermont down the California EV, NetZero ***! Hole, the science, and a handful of people with some common sense have stepped in to say, slow the hell down. Electrifying trucks comes with some serious downsides.
The debate is about setting goals for Electric-only Trucks. Not pick-ups, they are already messing with those, and it’s not going well – but box trucks OTR freight lumber, and the rest.
This issue has local complications that go beyond the obvious. Being surrounded by states rushing forward absent common sense, infrastructure, materials, a recycling plan, or the electricity to feed demand are a few. Having to share a grid with those mindless sh!ts, is another. But even at its most basic, there are multiple points of failure when talking about EVs, especially electrifying freight vehicles.
The lack of a higher-voltage charging infrastructure for the amount of electricity needed to run a truck — it could take eight hours or longer to use an automobile charger — is only one challenge.
Limited driving range per charge, which is almost halved when temperatures drop below freezing, is another. With weight limits, trucks would have to carry fewer goods because batteries to run them contribute considerable weight. That could necessitate more trucks on the road to carry the same amount of goods at a time when Maine is trying to reach carbon reduction goals, trucking experts say.
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“We travel long distances from our terminal and if you are limited on how far the truck can travel and you have to wait eight hours for a charge it’s a problem,” he said.
If we ignore the fact that there’s Net Zero need to reduce carbon emissions, the goal is still not practical.
“…electrified trucks might work for local deliveries and in ports. But they won’t work in northern Maine to move potatoes, broccoli or blueberries all over the East Coast, in the near term, he said. Many trucks use cranes, plows and other attachments that also require power to operate.”
It’s stupid. All of it is stupid and here are a few of those articles I mentioned that expose it for what it is. Stupid.
- Net-Zero Reality: There Are Not Enough Resources To Make the Batteries and Replace Them Every Ten Years
- Math is Hard But Net Zero Emissions Math is Harder – It Can’t Be Done by 2050
- Oxford University Calculates That Achieving Net Zero Will Require Closing Airports, No New Construction, Food Bans …
- The Left’s Net Zero Colonialism Will Kill Billions of Brown People
- Anyone Who Supports Net-Zero Should Be Required to Address these Concerns (And Not Just Because they Can’t)
- This Zero Emission Plan Doesn’t Zero Squat – It Offshores the Emissions to Other Countries
Not enough stuff, not enough time, no reductions in emissions, and significant harm to indigenous populations. And the left can’t get enough of any of that, it seems, because while it does nothing good and may be worse for the plenty, it’s good for central planning and global tyranny.
The Green Energy agenda strip mines the world’s population to fuel progressive power and influence, so nothing else needs to work.
