Bern - 11/28/2023 23:56

It certainly won't be electric. How many all-electric semis do you see on the road? Me neither.

I had to chuckle at a presentation put on by Freightliner recently about their EV Cascadia truck. A 230 mile range they said with the optional mega-ton (I forget the exact number) battery. Next to the 230 number was a little asterisk. In fine print on the bottom of the page it said that the 230 mile range was based on a "diminishing load profile". I said "What the heck does that mean?". Come to find out, they based that 230 mile figure on starting out with a fully loaded truck, driving 30 miles down the road and off-loading some freight. Then going another 30 miles down the road and unloading some more. And so on. Of course, by the time you're unloaded, you have to return back to home base empty.

This is the depth of deception the greenies have to go through to get some people at least to sign on to this "all electric" bandwagon BS. Diesel isn't going away anytime soon, and, after cleaning up the exhaust stack emissions over 99% over the last 20 years, why should it?