Every Long Hauler knows that an electric semi is a bad joke, an absurdity. Think Eisenhower Pass in Colorado. Think what 15,000 lbs of batteries might do to your long haul payload requirement of 30,000 lbs. Who’s paying you to haul those batteries around? And after that mountain pass has drained your batteries like GPS on a smartwatch, t…
Every Long Hauler knows that an electric semi is a bad joke, an absurdity. Think Eisenhower Pass in Colorado. Think what 15,000 lbs of batteries might do to your long haul payload requirement of 30,000 lbs. Who’s paying you to haul those batteries around? And after that mountain pass has drained your batteries like GPS on a smartwatch, think about all those trucks on the side of the road half way up(lucky) Eisenhower Pass or the 4 mountain passes on I90(in Montana alone!) …. ad nauseum all across the western half of the country. But it wouldn’t even take a mountain pass, really. That 30,000 lbs, now reduced to 15,000 payload and 15,000 lbs of batteries, won’t even get you 20% of the way across Interstate 20, flat as a pancake for much of its length. Then there’s the recharging nightmare. Forget about it. Love’s Truckstops are laughing their asses off, for now. If and when the time comes it won’t be funny and they will let you know exactly what they think.
These people really do think we are dumb as boxes of rocks.
Hear, hear. The testimony of a man who knows. I learn from your experience. These federal and internationalist numbskulls are so wedded to their subversive ideologies that they'll drive us all off the cliff rather than listen to you and your professional community.
No, Brien, its THOSE people - the DEI/ESG bunch who are the REALLY dumb ones.
Spot-on about the STUPIDITY and INSANITY of the DC bureaucracy who do not know excrement from Shinola (or) REAL LIFE! For instance the GROSS weight of the EV tractor powered by Lithium batteries as compared to a Cummins Diesel motor & fuel tanks?
How about the EXTREME EV battery weight of an all electric tractor's IMPACT on the entire HIGHWAY system and COST of roadway MAINTENANCE in the US?
Every Long Hauler knows that an electric semi is a bad joke, an absurdity. Think Eisenhower Pass in Colorado. Think what 15,000 lbs of batteries might do to your long haul payload requirement of 30,000 lbs. Who’s paying you to haul those batteries around? And after that mountain pass has drained your batteries like GPS on a smartwatch, think about all those trucks on the side of the road half way up(lucky) Eisenhower Pass or the 4 mountain passes on I90(in Montana alone!) …. ad nauseum all across the western half of the country. But it wouldn’t even take a mountain pass, really. That 30,000 lbs, now reduced to 15,000 payload and 15,000 lbs of batteries, won’t even get you 20% of the way across Interstate 20, flat as a pancake for much of its length. Then there’s the recharging nightmare. Forget about it. Love’s Truckstops are laughing their asses off, for now. If and when the time comes it won’t be funny and they will let you know exactly what they think.
These people really do think we are dumb as boxes of rocks.
Hear, hear. The testimony of a man who knows. I learn from your experience. These federal and internationalist numbskulls are so wedded to their subversive ideologies that they'll drive us all off the cliff rather than listen to you and your professional community.
No, Brien, its THOSE people - the DEI/ESG bunch who are the REALLY dumb ones.
Spot-on about the STUPIDITY and INSANITY of the DC bureaucracy who do not know excrement from Shinola (or) REAL LIFE! For instance the GROSS weight of the EV tractor powered by Lithium batteries as compared to a Cummins Diesel motor & fuel tanks?
How about the EXTREME EV battery weight of an all electric tractor's IMPACT on the entire HIGHWAY system and COST of roadway MAINTENANCE in the US?