Tuesday, May 9, 2023

The people wanting to demand 'Electric Everything!' are idiots, particularly the one in the White House.

Andrew Boyle, ATA first vice chair and co-president of Massachusetts-based Boyle Transportation, went to Washington this week to testify before a Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on the future of clean vehicles. As the manager of a truck fleet with one of the strongest environmental records in the industry today, Boyle injected a heavy dose of reality into the debate happening on Capitol Hill and nationwide over electric-vehicle mandates. 

A cut from his opening remarks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VlYYM_KtFA&t=1s
In the wake of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's decision to let California set de facto national emission standards for commercial vehicles, Boyle's testimony sheds light for lawmakers onto the gravity of these mandates, and how disconnected they are from current, real-world conditions.
Below are key exchanges from the hearing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCoAsPtgRKg
After one trucking company tried to electrify just 30 trucks at a terminal in Joliet, Illinois, local officials shut those plans down, saying they would draw more electricity than is needed to power the entire city.
A California company tried to electrify 12 forklifts. Not trucks, but forklifts. Local power utilities told them that's not possible.
If the product, charging infrastructure, and power is not available to comply with these unrealistic timelines, then regulators are setting trucking, and the American consumer, up for failure.
“Remember, we deliver food, medicine, and baby formula...

Failure is not merely inconvenient; it’s catastrophic."

Today, a clean diesel truck can spend 15 minutes fueling anywhere in the country and then travel about 1,200 miles before fueling again. In contrast, today’s long-haul battery electric trucks have a range of about 150-330 miles and can take up to 10 hours to charge.
A new, clean-diesel long-haul tractor typically costs in the range of $180,000 to $200,000. A comparable battery-electric tractor costs upwards of $480,000. That $300,000 upcharge is cost-prohibitive for the overwhelming majority of motor carriers. More than 95% of trucking companies are small businesses operating ten trucks or fewer.
Weight factors are another inconvenient truth. Battery-electric trucks, which run on two approx. 8,000-lb. lithium iron batteries, are far heavier than their clean-diesel counterparts. Since trucks are subject to strict federal weight limits, mandating battery-electric will decrease the payload of each truck, putting more trucks on the road and increasing both traffic congestion and tailpipe emissions.

Now, I want those idiots to attempt to understand just how stupid their demand to make 'all military vehicles electric by 2030' truly is.

There is much, much more at this link:
https://www.trucking.org/news-insights/heavy-dose-reality-electric-truck-mandates

No comments:

Post a Comment

Random Political Memes/Cartoons Dump - 11.22.2025 - 2

    That ought to trigger a few libtards.  I remember when she said that the list was on her desk.