After reading the following article from BlazeMedia, I am uber convinced that those who are pushing for an all electric transportation system do not know their arse from a hole in … !
The article is about the feasibility of switching semi-trucks and other large vehicles to fully electric.
The article is titled:
“Trucker perfectly dismantles electric vehicle narrative in 2 minutes: “You would need to pack 50,000 pounds of batteries!’”
The individual speaking is Chace Barber, trucker and founder of Edison Motors. He advocates for a push toward hybrid semi-trucks, as opposed to fully electric, because of two basic reasons.
“A logging truck uses about two and a half megawatts of power per day. The extra capacity in the battery means you need a three-megawatt battery pack. The biggest one is like a Tesla semi, which is like a one-megawatt. So you need three megawatts to run an electric truck,” Barber said.”
He went on, “That would mean you would need to pack 50,000 pounds — 40,000, 50,000 pounds of batteries just to do a full day.”
“Not only would the weight of such batteries cause many issues, but the braking system would need to be immediately and drastically improved in order to increase the stopping power.”
Barber then described how electrical infrastructure has not been updated in North America in some time and revealed that the grid is nowhere near the level that would be required to power all the essential vehicles.
“Let’s say we can even get those batteries down to the same weight where it’s reasonable, the grid infrastructure — we haven’t invested in our electrical grid since the 1950s, 1960s, ’70s.
In B.C. [British Columbia] alone, there’s 5,000 logging trucks that haul logs,” he explained. The present power infrastructure could not handle the logging trucks alone … and that’s without even taking EV autos into consideration.
So what do we have?
On one side we have California’s Gavin Newsom and all of the EV fanatics in Washington pushing the country into a future with only EVs. It is a good bet that this crowd has never driven a truck, much less even ever ridden in or touched a truck.
On the other side we have someone who actually knows a lot about trucks telling us that going all EV is impossible.
Who should we trust and believe? … Hmmm!
11/7/23