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Critical shortage may sideline Diesel trucking
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Posted on 05/26/2022 10:53:28 PM PDT by citizen

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To: unlearner

Like I said, tunnel vision. A hundred million people if not many more live in huge apartment and condo buildings and high-rise structures. Maybe each can hang a solar panel out a window! And homeowners with a quarter acre? Most have little desire to generate electricity at home and even less would know how and be willing to maintain a system.
It’s fine to be enthusiastic but you need to get serious in your thinking, pal.


121 posted on 05/27/2022 9:29:54 PM PDT by citizen (Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains; thieves of public prop. in riches and luxury)
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To: citizen

“It’s fine to be enthusiastic but you need to get serious in your thinking, pal.”

You are all over the place. First you argue that keeping a car running will be the least of my worries, then you make the issue about what a hundred million other people are doing, are capable of doing, or will do. That has nothing to do with me.

If you have something against EVs and solar, feel free to do whatever you want. I do not at all feel compelled to convince you otherwise.


122 posted on 05/28/2022 8:53:49 AM PDT by unlearner (Si vis pacem, para bellum. Let him who desires peace prepare for war.)
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To: SeeSharp

Thanks, I’ve been reading about the system. I’m sure it does good overall, but owners complain about $2500 repair bills. I don’t see why it would be so difficult to hack the second NOX sensor if you had no DEF.


123 posted on 05/28/2022 1:55:10 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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I don’t see why it would be so difficult to hack the second NOX sensor if you had no DEF.

NOX sensors have a circuit board which sends data to the ECM, unlike every other sensor on the truck which just varies the current sensed by the ECM and lets the ECM decide what it means. No simple way to hack that. On some trucks you can reprogram what the ECM does when the truck derates. For example, instead of limiting the speed to 5 mph limit it instead to 95 mph. You used to be able to just pull the outlet NOX sensor out and let it breath fresh air. They got wise to that though.

124 posted on 05/29/2022 6:26:45 PM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: Celtic Conservative

Our JD tractors just stop if they run out of DEF. It’s another stupid “improvement” for the climate. Facepalm.


125 posted on 05/30/2022 7:40:12 PM PDT by small farm girl (....)
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