Electric truck - tow vehicle of future ?
Interesting article about an electric Class 7 truck . Begs the question, are electric powered heavy duty pickups...ready for HD towing service... far behind ? Range right now is somewhat limite...
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BenK wrote:
Wonder if those who were first adopters of the new fangled clean air mode of transportation faced this...betcha they did...
Gasoline powered vehicles were the fix for air pollution of that day...piles of horse poop in the streets...smelling up the neighborhood/streets...piles of horse poop in the outskirts of most cities...that when dried...became yet another air pollutant when blown back into the city...horse poop dust clouds engulfed many cities and choked people out and about...that was considered and documented as a health hazard...of those days...
Gasoline was sold at local drug stores and hardware stores from the historical material read when a kid
Just because the distribution system isn't there yet...does it mean the technology isn't any good...
Also betcha a horse drawn buggy could out drag those first gasoline driven 'horseless' buggies...
History repeating itself...and those who either do not know of, or educated thereof are destined to repeat those historically based learning points...
Pollution and disease were a massive problem back then
By the end of the 19th century, once-vacant lots around New York City housed manure piles that stretched dozens of feet—often between 40 and 60—into the sky. The problem of horse manure had quite literally become larger than life.
And the problem comprised more than just excrement. When a horse, worked to the bone, plopped over dead, the city then had a rotting carcass to address, not to mention the flies and road congestion that accompanied it.
