Comments by "TeeKay" (@teekay_1) on "The sheer INSANITY of ELECTRIC TRUCKS | MGUY Australia" video.

@brendykes1202 You'll need to show the math on that. And take into account battery replacement every 5 years.
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@kiae-nirodiariesencore4270 electric 'Semi's' also get an extra weight allowance. Great. They'll wear out the roads that much faster. Presumably road use taxes will increase by a factor of 4.
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@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars These gen-z'ers forget that time is the biggest cost in shipping. It means that it's much more difficult to get vegetables to market when they're still fresh. It means you need to have twice the drivers, it means that you need to have massive charging facilities across thousands of miles of interstates, some of them even without cellular coverage. And the additional weight will push state budgets since roads will wear out faster causing states to raise taxes on trucks as much as 5-10x what they are today.
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@alasdair4161 The other alternative is california just made their supply chain much worse as companies pull back if they don't believe they can be profitable. California has lost a lot of taxpayers and businesses to Texas over the last 5 years. If that exodus continues, the entire state will be hollowed out, which won't be good for anybody but the owner of Panera.
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iscadean3607 According to the WSJ, we're shutting down more electric production in the country right now than we're creating due to these types of regulations. They also point out that for solar and wind, whatever the generation capacity is, you can only ever count on it producing at 50%, so if you're replacing a 2 megawatt coal plant you need a 4 megawatt solar array.
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@brendykes1202 Can you point to an operator who over a 5 year period has saved money with EV trucks?
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@thetowndrunk988 The rules are 11 hours within a 14 hour window And here's the deal. The truck doesn't stay with the driver. A new driver takes the truck. So like any asset, companies want these assets to run 24x7 or else they're not generating revenue. Diesel engines can work 24x7 with only a 15 minute delay to refuel. If you have to spend 5-10 hours charging these behemoths, you're making them 33% less efficient right off the bat.
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All of the climate hysteria is driven by pure emotion ( The earth is dying we need to DO SOMETHING NOW !), you cannot use logic to convince someone that they're being ridiculous.
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iscadean3607 The earth is dying we need to DO SOMETHING NOW !
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@brendykes1202 Heavy Truck batteries that are going to get cycled frequently from 0-100% will get about 5 years ideally. Less if they're abused. Plus let us know when your Tesla battery gets to 20 years.
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@brendykes1202 Actually that was a minor part of the problem. Hertz was finding they had to replace the battery in the cars for even minor accidents, which made them unprofitable. Imagine trucks that are going in rough areas scraping the bottom of those batteries over concrete curbs. How will the driver discern if he has a problem? Or will he wait for the smoke to start pouring out of the battery?
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@brendykes1202 Sure: "Chicago's Bowman Dairy Company used Walker Vehicle Company electric trucks to deliver milk to restaurants and hospitals in the downtown area. The truck had a rear axle electric motor that had a range of up to 50 miles and delivered 3.5 horsepower." A century later that's still the only successful battery-powered truck made. But we do know that EV cars batteries are so flimsy that a rock kicking up from the road can render them too dangerous to insure. In fact that happens all the time with EVs.
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@brendykes1202 Yes. The oil light will come on fairly quickly as oil pressure is lost. It's up to the driver to obey it. in fact, this has happened to me year ago. The light came on, I cut the engine and rolled to a stop. The fix was $50 for a new pan and installation.
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@thetowndrunk988 Good post. My point is that when you have an expensive asset it's supposed to be generating revenue unless it's due for for PM or failure. Diesel engines are so well perfected for continuous running, even long-distance trains use them continuously for months at a time running back and forth across the country using relief crews when the crew hits their HOS. And when they need to be refurbished, they can pull the engine quickly, put a refurb in and be on their way in short order. Battery powered trucks cannot meet the uptime necessary to make them profitable.
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In this case, the climate hoax was started with the worst intentions though.
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