Posted on 12/28/2022 7:41:13 PM PST by dynachrome
Don’t count on seeing electric garbage trucks plowing snow from city streets any time soon.
The city Department of Sanitation's goals to become carbon neutral are clashing with the limits of electric-powered vehicles.
The department aims to switch all 6,000 vehicles in its fleet from gas to electric as part of the state’s goal to reduce emissions by 2040. But city officials say they haven’t found electric garbage trucks that are powerful enough to plow snow.
The department has ordered seven electric rear loader garbage trucks, custom-made by Mack and costing more than $523,000 each, with delivery slated for the spring. Used for curbside trash collection, the department’s current rear loader truck fleet runs on diesel and is outfitted with plows to clear streets during snow season.
But officials say previous electric trucks tested by sanitation have not lasted longer than four hours plowing snow before running out of power, and the new electric trucks will be used for trash collection but not plowing snow.
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This BS is deliberate.
Lamp posts should be decorated.
Looking forward to lots more of these high-profile EV fails.
I’m thinking the next hurricane evacuation might get interesting...
6K vehicles at $523K a pop is $3.138B. Someone will be doing very well.
Look at the bright side. Each one that catches fire and burns clears about 80 feet of road of ice and snow.
You missed by 1,000.
3.1 million
We saw those garbage trucks in Key West. Only it said “WE CATER POLISH WEDDINGS”.
Or did you airbrush that out?
No. “6K” means 6000.
6,000 x 523,000 = 3,180,000,000.
Actually, you missed. It’s 3.138 billion
I never saw that one in Fort Lauderdale where we lived.
Let’s try easy math. Each truck is about half a million, 6 trucks will be a little more than 3 million. So 6000 will be about 3.3 billion.
Try again?
Quite rightly so.
Never mind but might not need to go into business unless running a big crypto exchange. Your accounting abilities will be an improvement there.
They just need more pixie dust.
Watermelon Marxists are mad-dog cultists that will destroy civilization if they are not stopped.
Luckily, it only gets cold in the winter in New York.
“The city Department of Sanitation’s goals to become carbon neutral..”
Idiots.
If NY City had any brains they would just let the thieves steal the snow.
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