Posted on 04/07/2024 3:08:26 PM PDT by Libloather
American truck drivers are sounding the horn on the Biden administration's recently finalized environmental regulations that aim to push for the heavy-duty vehicle sector to go all-electric.
The truckers voiced concerns that electric heavy-duty vehicle technology is not nearly advanced enough to replace the nation's existing diesel-powered fleet, noting limitations on vehicle batteries, like low performance in cold weather conditions and shorter range. They also warned that the lack of high-powered charging infrastructure and power grid upgrades needed for fueling vehicles would present additional problems.
"I'm an owner-operator. I've been in the business for 30 years," Mike Nichols, a Wisconsin-based trucker, told Fox News Digital in an interview. "Even if they subsidized the cost of the electric vehicle 100%, I still would refuse because I still would go broke. That's how useless they are. If they gave me one of these things, I still wouldn't take it.
"EV trucks don't do as much work. They're heavier, so they can't haul as much. They don't go as far. They take longer to charge," Nichols added, saying he wouldn't be able to run his business if he were forced into using an electric vehicle.
"So, you're going to need more trucks on the road, which is completely the opposite of what we would want if we were actually concerned about bettering our society."
On Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized the regulations, which kick in beginning in 2026 for model year 2027 vehicles. The regulations gradually become more stringent through model year 2032, affecting short-haul and long-haul tractor-trailer trucks and vocational trucks like delivery vehicles, school and public transit buses, and garbage trucks, concrete trucks and fire trucks.
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Time to rip out the EPA and all their regulations out by the roots, take the trunk, branches and leaves too.
Ethanol takes about 1.4 gallons of legacy fuel, to make one gallon. Plus the mass quantities to grow the corn, which is no longer used for food for people, cattle, or dried seed for chickens, uses millions of gallons of water. THEN the millions of gallons used in distillation and manufacture of ethanol. WATER WASTED for fuel, that uses MORE Gas or Diesel than it delivers.
Time to rip out the EPA and all their regulations out by the roots, take the trunk, branches and leaves too.
Octane (and whatever other hydrocarbons in gasoline) does not burn clean??
Get back to me when an empty semi-tractor made by Tesla with a full sized battery sits on a scale for an official weigh in.
“Octane (and whatever other hydrocarbons in gasoline) does not burn clean??”
Correct. Based on my experience in the Emission Control field, you get HC and CO by burning gasoline (cannot be avoided), so not just CO2 and water. The catalytic converter, however, cleans up nearly all of the HC and CO.
I recall my dad’s car got tested. CO was practically nothing.
I guess he had a catalytic converter.
My understanding was that in a poorly ventilated garage, CO would have been produced.
High school chemistry C8H18 + 17O2 = 8CO2 + 9H2O.
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice they are not.
I see your point, so I guess that 100% proper combustion isn’t possible for gasoline, at least in an internal combustion engine. Maybe cleaner in open-air burning, but I have no clue.
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