EPA’s new emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks will effectively require that electric semi-trucks make up an increasing share of manufacturer sales from 2027 through 2032, similar to its recent rule for passenger cars. The difference is that the truck mandate is even more costly and fanciful.
EVs make up less than 1% of U.S. heavy-duty truck sales, and nearly all are in California, which heavily subsidizes and mandates their purchase. EPA’s rule will require electric models to account for 60% of new urban delivery trucks and 25% of long-haul tractor sales by 2032. The harm is predictable in return for no climate benefit.
Start with the fact that no electric long-haul tractors are currently in mass production. Most electric trucks can’t go more than 170 miles on a charge. Electric semis require bigger and heavier batteries, which means they must carry lighter loads to avoid damaging roads. Fleet operators will have to use more trucks to transport the same amount of goods.
This will increase vehicle congestion, especially around ports and distribution centers. EPA says its rule will reduce pollution in “environmental justice” communities near major truck freight routes. But more traffic will result in more pollution. Electric trucks also generate more soot from their wear and tear on roads and vehicle braking.
Power generation and transmission will have to massively expand to support millions of new “zero-emission” trucks. An electric semi consumes about seven times as much electricity on a single charge as a typical home does in a day. Truck charging depots can draw as much power from the grid as small cities.
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@Diplom4cyGarlicLibertarian2mos2MO
No, we are about to lose the country. This mandate would also require school buses be all electric.
Electrician was at my tower site last summer, installing service for a new tenant. He told me a nearby rural county was offered electric buses to replace their diesel school bus fleet. The B.O. Ed. declined...
In order to have enough electric to recharge 5 buses between start of school and school letting out, a bus garage would be required & 800 amp service provided;
The buses were too long for the narrow, winding country roads;
The buses were also too heavy for many bridges on those roads.
@OctopusMattVeteran2mos2MO
Not to worry, Mayor Pete will declare those roads and bridges to be racist, and he’ll authorize billion-dollar replacements.
@WearyPolicyVeteran2mos2MO
The climate cult's madness continues. The Democrats will spend whatever it takes to pursue the insanity. By the way, we need more CO2, not less. Read this fine book: "Inconvenient Facts."
The EPA is allowed to pursue their dream because SCOTUS ruled that CO2 is a pollutant. They must reverse that absurd decision.
@LegislationQuailPatriot2mos2MO
Electric trucks crush the road bed and EV tire particulate pollution can kick communities out of attainment of federal ceilings making new domestic manufacturing impossible. So high-carbon-footprint goods created in pollution-uncontrolled jurisdictions are imported instead and transported by road-destroying EV trucks.
EVs are going to collapse the electric transmission grid like the Dali demolished Francis Scott Key.
@HoopoeGregMountain2mos2MO
We as a country, and the world at large, can neither afford nor survive another four years of this spewing of unrelenting and dangerous nonsense. We are cutting it quite close with the next nine months, actually, but let’s hope we can at least slow it down by tying it up in the courts for years.
@EmptyC0al1tionPatriot2mos2MO
For the never-Trumpers and the Washington and coastal elites, this is exactly why Trump might defeat Biden in November. A lot of voters might hate Trump, but they hate Biden's ruinous policies more.
@SeafowlSophiaForward2mos2MO
The Obama III+ Administration is killing America. What's even worse...it's not a mistake...or incompetence...it's their actual intent.
@MindConservaLibertarian2mos2MO
Just wait until they push the electric plane mandate. Using today's battery technology, energy- weight equivalence of batteries to jet fuel would mean the batteries would weigh 21x the rest of the plane itself. But I am sure that wouldn't stop them...
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Unless they are willing to buy these Semi Trucks there should be no mandate. The economy is not in a place where every truck drive and their company can disregard their trucks to buy all new electric ones.
As, I read the above, I got angrier and angrier at the EPA and the lawmakers who are not taking action to clip its wings. The Biden regulatory environment has gotten completely out of control. G-d help us if he is reelected. His presidency is by far the worst in my lifetime.
@L3gislatorElianaLibertarian2mos2MO
“Long haul trucking” and “electric trucks” is intrinsically contradictory 😎
How much longer is the American public going to put up with this absolute nonsense spewing from the radical Left?
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