Ketan Joshi1d ago

Truck drivers across Norway are going to be congesting roads by driving at 40kph in the Easter holidays to protest record-high fuel prices caused by the Trump administration.

If a climate activist mentioned the *possibility* of doing this in a group chat they'd be jailed and fined millions within hours

https://www.nrk.no/sorlandet/_dieselbrolet_-er-i-gang-_-saktegaende-trafikk-flere-steder-1.17827420

Show threadMidgePhoto1d ago

@ketan
The economics of big electric trucks are less favourable than Diesels.
Thus far.
(6 tonnes of battery reduces payload, and it is payload tonnes cruising at 60mph that governs profitability in trucking)

This may be adjusted, may change, and surely has some use cases (volume loads of light mass?) where it has already changed.

Show threadThe Penguin of Evil1d ago
@Photo55 @ketan For the UK the numbers I saw were way higher purchase costs 25% of the running costs and much less downtime for servicing. Most of our trips are under 600km a day and it depends on having the charging infrastructure in the right places. As the charging gets sorted the low running costs will do the rest and in turn pull down purchase prices
Show threadMidgePhoto

@etchedpixels @ketan
There are all-up weight limits on ours.
There is a nicely worked example on the Web, I can't point at it this moment.

For smaller trucks doing stop-start deliveries in urban traffic, combustion is obsolescent already.

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