Who is/will be the 1st TTR member to drive Electric Semi-Truck?

Anything EV is being propped up by government dollars. If they weren’t, they wouldn’t be viable in the open market. So long as the agenda is making a select few rich, that’s all that matters to those running the scam.

 

So is diesel. Or more specifically, oil. I mean why else did we spend trillions of dollars and American lives every year in the middle east?

 

I don’t want to derail this thread that far off the tracks.

 

The perfect alternative isn’t an alternative. Its fossil fuels. Always will be. Coal was supposed to run out….they found more. Natural gas was supposed to run out……they found more. Oil is always supposedly running out…..they always find more.

Truth is a lot of the “we are running out” was all propaganda. I hate that word. Bullshizz. It was all bullshizz. The climate change propaganda is the one that has stuck. And look how it has affected trucking. We never perfect anything before we move on to the next big thing. And it’s US who pays for it in the end. None of this is going to make it better for US.

Grade school in the 80’s. Landfills were running out of space. Earth was gonna be gone if we didn’t recycle. And here we are. I fill a special blue garbage can that gets picked up once a month and goes straight into the landfill. You know, the one that was full 30 years ago.

Just think of how bad most technology that went into class 8 trucks has sucked. Simple things. Major things. We read and complain about it on TTR daily. So now we are going to run a truck on nothing but 100% technology. They can’t get a switch with simple wiring and a relay to work half the time.

We have been rapidly losing mechanics due to technology. Whats the first thing that needs done at a shop??? Plug in the laptop. And what usually comes of this? They start throwing parts/sensors at a problem because the computer really has no clue. And the technicians don’t either. So now lets make it the entire truck this way. What could go wrong????????

Good luck. Just remember if you support it and it fails, it won’t go away. Just look at the emissions systems. Heck look at elogs, the dreaded Peoplenet.

This article isn’t about trucks, just the nonsense you can run into with all that fancy “technology”.

Furious actor tells Tesla they ‘lost a customer’ as key fob locks him out for days

 

^^^ Reality.

 

Think you are correct there, however it puzzles me why virtually every car, truck, motorcycle manufacturer has invested so heavily in electric. If it's not the future than its an expansive side trip. Which makes hydrogen look a long way off or there are huge profits in the side trip for ?

Can't help wonder I once had a vinyl record collection along with cassettes, then CDs came along for a brief period before digital currently dominated. I paid good money 2 to 3 times for the same product with only marginally better facilitation over those decades. Wonder if the oil/energy industry is looking to be no different.

Think as I get older and having played and payed those 2 to 3 times I'll sit it out. A vinyl record with all its artwork and coolness was $25 in 1985, a CD with less interest was $30 in 1995, a digital down load with nothing is $20 in 2022. The artist (perhaps truck manufacturer) probably made the same lousy margins in 1985 as they do in 2022, record companies or perhaps oil/energy supplies are where the real greed lay.

I was once a real fan of the always 5 year off elects truck, but nowadays can't see much benefit in real costs to me buy getting one. Or hydrogen when it gets here. The cost of energy to power it will diminish the benefit leaving only the feel good. About the same as buying a new diesel truck today. I guess new is always nice but they are only marginally more efficient than old. A pointless exercise when diesel jumps in 10s of cents weekly.

To be honest I'd rather take a leaf out of the millenniums book and pay for nothing. I bet the CEO's weren't banking on music and movies being available for free the day before their official release. Not sure how they will do it, but stolen energy sounds fair to me.

 

No, flying trucks..still waiting on the flying cars we were supposed to have by now..been waiting since the 1960’s

 

I do agree , but i think electric trucks will take out alot of the engine maintenance out of it. No more emissions crap to deal with. No engine to rebuild. Just electric motors.

 

That is true. But compare replacing a battery bank to what it costs to overhaul a modern emissions motor and you will probably be ahead still.