Posted on 12/10/2024 3:19:20 PM PST by artichokegrower
California has an aggressive mandate for zero-emission trucks, which are powered by electricity or hydrogen. But trucking companies face big obstacles — and people are still breathing dangerous diesel exhaust.
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California requires an increasing number of EV trucks to be sold, forcing dealers to sell an EV truck before they can sell a newer, more efficient diesel truck.
Truckers are not buying electric trucks because they are very expensive, despite state and federal subsidies that can total as much as $160,000, resulting in fewer overall truck sales.
Dealerships’ interest fees can total as much as $100,000 per month for unsold truck stock.
Layoffs are beginning to occur for autoworkers as EV sales have slowed and automakers work to comply with the Biden-Harris tailpipe regulations.
The Biden-Harris administration is benefiting China in its “back-door” ban on petroleum-based vehicles, as China leads in EV battery production, EV manufacturing, and the extracting minerals needed to produce them.
Hurting sales = Hurting taxes
So, are blazing battery fumes safer than diesel fumes. Can hardly wait to see some EV semis coming over I-80 in the winter time.
They just can't help themselves. Lying speech is their native language.
What polluted cities?
Seriously. These technocrats need to be put into a time machine and sent back to the sixties so they can see what real pollution looks like.
Yes, the millions killed every year by diesel exhaust. /sarc
Tesla semi-truck fire that shut down I-80 took 50,000 gallons of water to put out, NTSB says
The initial findings have been released from the National Transportation Safety Board investigation into August’s Tesla semi-truck fire that shut down Interstate 80 for hours.
As detailed by investigators, the battery-powered truck crashed near Emigrant Gap a little after 3 a.m. on Aug. 19.
https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/tesla-semi-truck-fire-ntsb-report-50k-gallons-of-water/
I remember that. Probably more than 50,000 gallons. I don’t recall a lot of fire hydrants along that stretch. 😊👍
After 2035, assuming that all sales of combustion engined vehicles are banned and diesel trucks and railroad engines are banned from Kalifornia, expect to see the inflation rate skyrocket. What’s next? EV planes mandated for Kali airports? Kalifornia is governed by morons who worship on the altar of the net zero cult. Notice one glaring omission? The total lack of any movement on starting any new nuclear power plants. Hypocrites!
Californians are about ready to starve.
All businesses ought go elsewhere
To hell with California
“These technocrats need to be put into a time machine and sent back to the sixties so they can see what real pollution looks like.”
It looks like what we have seen here in the Big Valley over the last week, with average AQI over 150.
You shouldn’t be able to see the air, and it shouldn’t burn your eyes.
Hydrogen should be a real blast.
Drop them off around the industrial revolution in England.
Better yet, send them to the end of time itself.
We’d all be better off.
Large issue is we have Chinese Polluted air coming across the ocean to CA.
“So, are blazing battery fumes safer than diesel fumes.”
The batteries are sealed.
That’s NOTHING. In the mid-’70s the smog in L.A. had got so bad there were days you couldn’t see a mile. You’d be driving I-210 in the afternoon, and you knew the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains was RIGHT THERE, hardly a mile north of the highway, but you couldn’t see that far.
Electronic ignition control, and fuel injection have paired with the catalytic afterburner to where, although there are millions more cars on the road now, the air quality is STILL FAR better than it was then.
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Yeah, and in an accident they become unsealed, burst into flames, and burn hot as a blowtorch.
What is your point other than simply contradicting anything bad said about any electric vehicle?
“San Gabriel Mountains was RIGHT THERE, hardly a mile north of the highway, but you couldn’t see that far.”
I completely agree. It is so much better.
I moved back to Texas three years ago, but I remember
back in the 80s I had a class in Monrovia for a week.
The first part of the week the smog was so bad you could not see the mountains and I didn’t know they were there.
Wind blew all the smog away and there they were.
It was surprising because they were so close.
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