Chevrolet exits all ICE production by 2035
Chevy exits ICE engines Hopefully the other manufacturers won't follow suit. Being from Texas and starting to thaw out from our latest freeze of the century, I don't see how our current power g...
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Reisender wrote:
Plus, downtown deliveries with Electric heavy trucks will have much less impact on down town air quality. As cities outlaw vehicles with tail pipes in downtown cores trucks like these will have an advantage as no depot action is required switching between a diesel tractor and an electric tractor. Win win. Everybody likes good air quality.
No doubt at all about that. All in-town applications, from food delivery to Translink, should be EVs.
I just think high hp long haul applications would be the last frontier for EVs, and it will be conquered, just more in the future.
Here's another way of looking at it: most of our newer city busses are hybrids now, but you'll never see it on tour coaches (Prevost, MCI, etc.) Because there's very little opportunity for energy re-capture at high speeds.
I've driven 50k lbs loaded Prevosts from Calgary and back many times, and used the jakes maybe once the whole trip (8% section on the Coq). All other times it's nearly foot to the floor (430hp Detroit).
