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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • Oh, I understand it was for future plans, but it would probably be much easier to force people to phase in diesel-electric hybrids, and eventually force those to go fully electric (that is generally the idea of the hybrids, the battery tech kinda sucks for long haul right now, but in the future it won’t and you could retrofit the battery where the generator is now while slightly lowering emissions now and offsetting costs for the future). I don’t disagree with the stupidity of the boat stuff though, that needed to have been fixed years ago. That being said, some of the stuff regarding trucking was generally considered in the trucking community pretty close to impossible, so I’m not surprised it went on the chopping block.


  • I mean, it’s not truly surprising. Electric trucks are not ready for prime time, either from range, infrastructure for them, or cost. And while Cummins actually does have plans for hydrogen-ification of their engines over the next few years, I have my doubts those will actually be all that effective (they are essentially just changing the heads to burn hydrogen, get the same general mpg which isn’t great), which mostly just leaves you with hybrids, like Edison is testing. So long as they aren’t abandoning Carb, it should be OK for now, although I have a bad feeling that Trump might try to mess with that too.