[DoughtyOne]

The move to EVs is little more than a government driven fad
at this point. It’s popular to talk about saving Gia the
somehow discerned phantom center of the Earth’s own
conscious being.

I’m sure some will be dismissive of that last part, but it’s
as believable as anything being offered up to save mother
Earth from the evil men who are ‘killing her, er it’.

The government should take a step back and a big breath,
and disassociate from those who have gone postal on this
issue.

Electrifying a fleet of trucks? The symbolism of paying
this much homage to the global warming shamans, is rather
unnerving to say the least.

[V_TWIN]

Not a big fan of Hannity but he did himself a favor and had Charles Payne on a couple of days ago.

Payne breaks down exactly what’s going on with EVs and its worse than I thought.....a TOTAL scam that’s actually worse for the environment than ICE vehicles could ever be.

Starts at 1:20 Unbelievable

https://youtu.be/tqQC7FY4sVo

[cymbeline]

“Electrifying a fleet of trucks?”

How about doing one town and seeing how that works out before jumping in whole hog.

[Alberta's Child]

I do some work with clients in this area, and I would point out that for certain classes of commercial vehicles — mainly delivery vans and small trucks — we have reached the point where the total cost of ownership (TCO) is lower for EVs than for ICEs. A lot of it depends on the use of the vehicle and its functionality, but the big thing these EVs have going for them is: (1) lower (and more reliable) energy costs, and (2) much lower maintenance costs.

One thing keeping more commercial interests from adopting them in large numbers is that they still haven’t managed to come up with a solid estimate of the depreciated value of an EV over time.