Diesel’s days are numbered?........................
Translated: this is the only "study" that suggests that it is remotely feasible to do this.
>>The team found that most (~80%) of the substations studied could supply the time-varying loads of 100 trucks charged at 100 kW/vehicle without any upgrades, and an additional 10% of substations could avoid upgrades if fleets used “smart” charging.
take those charging stations offline in the summer and winter when people are already being told to go without heat or ac.
There is no demand
T Boone Pickens and others set up a consortium to facilitate natural gas as a long range truck fuel. The cost of the natural gas fuel vs Deisel was considerably less and now is probably a lot less.
The consortium included Flying J who has facilities all across the country at about 200 miles intervals. supply was readily and easily available. I believe the venture failed because the truck fuel consumers did not accept the bargain
Since it’s obvious that they’re going to ram this down our throats, if Republicans ever get back to being the majority, I’d love to see them mandate that those with EVs are required to use renewable energy methods to charge the batteries.
No more using traditional power plants to charge your batteries
This is all about the government and left leaning corporate leadership conspiring to get a refund on their investments. Nothing more. .
You’re going to save the world with your electric car, go whole hog and be a true believer. Charge the batteries with the sun or wind.
Good luck.
So a bunch of college idiots think they can speak for truck drivers?
remove all government subsidy in the supply chain and manufacture of electric vehicles, and remove all purchase subsidy from the consumer, and you’ll never see another EV sold.
Until EVs can compete without subsidy, they are dead meat hanging.
Researchers? How about talking to Truckers and trucking companies?-)
Most imported goods come in through Cali so that's where a lot of trucks would have to charge at some point and they don't even have enough electricity as it is.
The article is weird because it just doesn’t come out and say that you can charge the vehicles at night when they are at the depot. They suggest it with “off-shift periods at central locations such as a vehicle depot.”
When EV research started ramping up back in the 80s, the idea was that the nation had a huge amount of untapped nighttime baseload coal and nuclear power that could be tapped to charge EV batteries at night. It was a way to use that asset at nighttime.
In the ensuing 40 years, that has radically changed as coal and nuclear plants have been shut down. Nondispatchable wind and solar cannot make up that loss for obvious reasons. The only way you can get through the night (no sun, usually no wind) is with huge energy storage projects fed by solar and wind during the day.
Wouldn’t it be ironic to build gigantic battery banks to store solar and wind power during the day, then use those same batteries to charge your truck batteries at night?
This whole fetish for “decarbonization” is utterly ridiculous. It’s predicated on “carbon is evil and will destroy mankind” which is patently false. The entire solar, wind, and EV wet dream is based on the “carbon is evil” premise. I can’t believe we are upending our entire energy and transportation infrastructure to the tune of trillions of dollars for no net benefit.
When I was growing up during the thirties, I saw many electric delivery trucks in Washington, DC. Railway Express and one of the large department stores used them. I remember they had non-inflatable flat rubber tires. As the suburbs grew out from the city, I guess they became less useful.
BS